
Sam Dingman
Reporter/Host - The ShowSam Dingman is a reporter and host for KJZZ’s The Show. Prior to KJZZ, Dingman was the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Family Ghosts, which has received over 10 million downloads, and been hailed as a critic’s choice by NPR, the LA Times and the New York Times. Dingman also co-hosted, co-wrote, produced, mixed, and edited the BlueWire original series the Rumor, which was featured in the Washington Post and New York Magazine, and was a Webby honoree for Best Podcast Writing. Dingman was also the writer and showrunner for John Stamos’s Webby-winning podcast the Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra, editor of Karina Longworth’s You Must Remember This and a producer for WNYC’s Peabody-winning On the Media. He is a four-time winner of the Moth Grand and Story Slams, and has created, written, hosted, produced and edited podcasts for the Atlantic, Audible Originals, Gilded Audio, Gimlet Media, Lincoln Center, Panoply Media, Paramount Pictures, Pushkin Industries, Spotify, Slate, Stitcher and Wondery.
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On a recent Tuesday morning, a group of elementary school kids gathered in a gymnasium for a theatrical interpretation of one of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
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A group of reporters spent two years analyzing hundreds of hours of the most popular podcasts from “the Manosphere," and President Donald Trump’s appearance on those shows seems to be informing his policy-making.
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If you look at the listing of such places here in Arizona, there’s one person who’s posted more than anyone else: Brett Iredell, a wildland firefighter in Flagstaff.
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When the Trump administration issued an order freezing federal funding last week, many organizations who rely on that funding, including the Arizona Head Start Association, were stunned.
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Come fly away with The Show's Sam Dingman, who took a flight at Carry On, the airplane-themed bar in Phoenix that's also a James Beard nominee this year.
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Rachel Syme is a writer with a massive audience. But one of her favorite ways to write is much more personal. Syme is a devotee of the ancient art of “correspondence” — better known as letter-writing.
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The premise of Sonora Reyes’ new novel will be familiar to romcom fans: two best friends realize they’re in love. But Reyes puts a few interesting twists on that familiar story.
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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s pardons for many of the Jan. 6 rioters, one of them says his motives are misunderstood. Nathan DeGrave claims he was one of the first people inside the Capitol that day.
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Prolific Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor asks her biggest question yet in "Death of the Author." She speaks more about the book with The Show.
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The Oscar-nominated film "The Brutalist," directed by directed by Scottsdale's own Brady Corbet, has people talking about architectural history. You can see some examples in metro Phoenix.