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Podcasts|The Preventionist, Episode 1: Creative Financing
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/podcasts/serial-the-preventionist-episode-1.html
From Serial Productions: What is going on in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley?
Published Oct. 15, 2025Updated Oct. 16, 2025, 10:14 a.m. ET
Hosted by Dyan Neary
Reported by Dyan NearyBen Phelan and Jenelle Pifer
Produced by Jenelle Pifer
Edited by Jen Guerra
Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell
Engineered by Phoebe Wang
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The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t.
Your Host
Dyan Neary is an investigative reporter who writes feature stories and essays on a range of topics including child welfare, the criminal justice system, and health and medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University, and is an associate professor of journalism at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in outlets like New York magazine, Elle, and WFSU, an NPR affiliate.
Credits
Hosted, Reported and Written by Dyan Neary
Additional Reporting by Jenelle Pifer and Ben Phelan
Produced by Jenelle Pifer
Edited by Jen Guerra
Additional Editing by Sarah Koenig and Anita Badejo
Fact Checking and Research by Elizabeth Barber and Ben Phelan
Additional Fact Checking by Caitlin Love
Music Supervision and Mixing by Phoebe Wang
Additional Production by Catherine Anderson
Sound Design by Phoebe Wang and Jonathan Menjivar
Original Score by Martin D. Fowler, Marion Lozano and Dan Powell
Theme Music by Martin D. Fowler
Art and art direction by Pablo Delcan and Aimée Hunt
Standards Editor Susan Wessling
Legal Review by Dana Green
Associate Producer Mack Miller
Supervising Producer Ndeye Thioubou
Executive Editor Julie Snyder
Senior Operations Manager Elizabeth Davis-Moorer
Deputy Managing Editor Sam Dolnick
At The New York Times, thanks to:
Nina Lassam, Corey Beach, Susan C. Beachy, Jeffrey Miranda, Jessica Anderson, Karl Delossantos, Kelly Doe, Shu Chun Xie, Jordan Cohen, Victoria Kim, Brad Fisher, Maddy Masiello, Zoe Murphy, Pierre-Antoine Louis, Naomi Noury, Matthew Lewkowicz, Julia Moujami, Sam Posner and Tyler Cabot.
Special thanks:
Jane Ackermann, Daniel Guillemette, Alvin Melathe, Jessica Weisberg and Julie Whitaker.
