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Sam Dingman

Reporter/Host - The Show

Sam 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.