Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
This duo understands firsthand how this recently informal industry often excludes underrepresented folks from fully participating in the expanding ecosystem of podcasting. This trickle-up conversation explores what it looks like to “pass the baton” within a supportive community, present new blueprints for leveling up, and bare it all about what it takes to arrive at the coveted glow up.
Presenters: Keisha “TK” Dutes (Producer, Glitch and EP Consultant, Hear to Slay) + Gabrielle Horton (Producer, Hear to Slay and Founder & Chief Storyteller, The Woodshaw)
For more information about the Werk It Festival visit werkitfestival.com. You can download or stream the Werk It podcast here: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/werkit
This duo understands firsthand how this recently informal industry often excludes underrepresented folks from fully participating in the expanding ecosystem of podcasting. This trickle-up conversation explores what it looks like to “pass the baton” within a supportive community, present new blueprints for leveling up, and bare it all about what it takes to arrive at the coveted glow up.
Presenters: Keisha “TK” Dutes (Producer, Glitch and EP Consultant, Hear to Slay) + Gabrielle Horton (Producer, Hear to Slay and Founder & Chief Storyteller, The Woodshaw)
For more information about the Werk It Festival visit werkitfestival.com. You can download or stream the Werk It podcast here: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/werkit
![Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery [Podcast Trailer]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IM-r0Cc8Tjg/mqdefault.jpg "Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery [Podcast Trailer]
Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery is a seven-part investigative podcast series that delves into the unsolved killing of John and Joyce Sheridan. Its a story of crime and politics in the Garden State. The first episode out now.
Subscribe to Dead End: https://link.chtbl.com/deadendpodcast?sid=youtube
Hosted by WNYC Senior Reporter Nancy Solomon, Dead End tells the tale of the high-profile murders that had inexplicable oversights in the original investigation, shines a light on new evidence, and raises troubling questions about power dynamics and corruption at the highest levels in New Jersey politics.
On September 28, 2014, former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner John Sheridan was found dead along with his wife Joyce Sheridan in their home in Skillman, New Jersey. The couple were prominent Republican donors who had relationships with some of the most powerful people in the state, including former Governor Chris Christie. Both suffered multiple stab wounds and their house was set on fire. Although authorities initially declared it a murder-suicide, the Sheridans’ eldest son, Mark, is consumed with questions and doubt, and takes it upon himself to search for the truth – but encounters roadblocks at every turn.
Solomon – who has been covering New Jersey politics for over two decades – takes up Mark’s inquiry. Through interviews with former governors, attorneys general, police detectives and a prosecutor who helped take down the New Jersey mob, Dead End examines how the deaths of such a politically connected couple could be ignored by top law enforcement agencies and left unresolved.
Dead End is the debut production of the WNYC Studios Documentary Unit, a new initiative led by WNYC Studios Vice President Emily Botein, dedicated to producing ambitious, highly-produced non-fiction long-form audio works.
Animation by Liam Eisenberg [https://liameisenberg.com]")
