Andy Bowers is the Chief Content Officer and Co-Founder of Panoply Media, and the creator in 2005 of Slate’s podcasting network, one of the first professional networks in the medium. He has overseen the creation and production of dozens of original podcasts, including Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell, Empire on Blood, The Message (one of podcasting’s most successful original dramas), and numerous programs for children. As a correspondent for NPR from 1991-2003, Bowers reported on U.S. national and global affairs. He served as NPR’s London Bureau Chief and Moscow Bureau Chief, a White House correspondent, and a California-based national correspondent. Bowers is a graduate of Yale University, and lives in New York.