Lauren Spohrer is an American

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, best known for co-creating and producing the podcasts Criminal and This Is Love.

Early career and education

Spohrer got her start in radio in 2003, when she began interning for

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. After working as a producer for several NPR shows, she began a

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at Columbia University.

Creation of ''Criminal'' and ''This is Love'' podcasts

Spohrer, who teaches essay writing at Duke University, was working as the producer of

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, when the show was cancelled in 2013. This led Spohrer and two colleagues,

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and Eric Mennel, to create their own podcast. Spohrer proposed to Judge that they create a podcast related to true crime, and they released the first episode of Criminal in January 2014. Spohrer and Judge went on to co-create another podcast, This is Love, in 2018. Spohrer and Judge have been in discussions with

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to turn their podcasts into scripted shows.

References

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