Paula Szuchman is the Director of Audio for The New York Times where she oversees a slate of shows that together were downloaded nearly a billion times in 2023. Now in its seventh year, the Times’s flagship podcast The Daily remains the number one daily news show on Apple Podcasts. The portfolio also includes Hard Fork, The Run-Up and Modern Love, as well as original programming available exclusively on New York Times Audio, a standalone app that launched last year.
Paula joined The Times in 2020 as the first head of Opinion Audio, where she quickly built out a team and spun up three new shows. She was previously the head of new podcast development at WNYC Studios, where her credits include Scattered, American Fiasco and 2 Dope Queens.
She started her career as a print journalist, first as a magazine editor at Conde Nast, then a reporter and Page One editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she spent nearly a decade. She was also the deputy managing editor at Newsweek and managing editor at The Daily Beast. She’s the co-author of “Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes,” released by Random House in 2010.
