Announcing Drop Site's new podcast channel

Listen to our new episode on Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Now that we’re about two and a half months old as a news organization, we can start to take a breath and think about something other than breaking news and investigations. That something is podcasts. We’re launching a new Drop Site podcast channel that will feature episodes of Deconstructed and Intercepted as well as an exciting investigative podcast series we’ll be rolling out in the next few weeks, though I can’t say anything more about it now. There’ll also be more to come, but we don’t want to announce anything before it’s ready.

Today’s episode features five of the journalists at Drop Site whose work you’ve been reading lately: Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, Nausicaa Renner, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and me. What audio and video we produce over the coming years will evolve, but our focus will always remain print-focused investigative journalism. It’s what we do best and it’s what this world needs most.

The podcast channel is free—though at times we’ll have subscriber-only episodes to help nudge those of you who keep meaning to become paying subscribers but just haven’t gotten to it. Speaking of which:

The most important way you can support us though is by reading and listening to our journalism and sharing it with your friends. Please help by subscribing to this new podcast on whatever platform you use. Just search “Drop Site News.”

Here it is on Apple, for instance. If you have half of a minute, please go in and rate it five stars. If you have a full minute, say a sentence or two nice about us in the review section. That really helps boost it in the algorithm.

If you can’t find it where you typically get podcasts, let us know at contact@dropsitenews.com and we’ll figure out what’s wrong. (We might not respond to everybody but that doesn’t make us any less grateful for the feedback.)

The first two months of operation shows us that there is far more need for the work we do than we have the current capacity to do it. Especially with the Israeli raid and shutdown of Al Jazeera’s West Bank headquarters, trustworthy news from the ground is harder to come by. So we’re going to add some editors to our ranks who will be able to coordinate with reporters in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon—and elsewhere around the world that needs coverage.

If you’re already a subscriber and are able to give a bit more to support this expansion, please chip in to help make this possible. One-time and recurring contributions are tax-deductible and can be made here. Information on how to give through a DAF is here.

For my periodic update, we now have 232,937 total subscribers, of whom 6,097 are paying. A huge thank you to everyone making this possible.

On this joint episode of Intercepted and Deconstructed, the team of journalists from Drop Site News discuss their reporting on the U.S.-backed Israeli wars in the Middle East. Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain are joined by Drop Site News editor Nausicaa Renner and journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. They discuss the Biden administration’s enduring commitment to arming and supporting Israel, why Iran has exhibited restraint in its military response to Israeli attacks, and what we know about Hezbollah’s military capabilities. They also discuss Drop Site News’s reporting on Pakistan and the attempts to censor and ban Drop Site.