Brendan Francis Newnam is an award-winning audio journalist who is the creator and host of Not Lost a travel memoir podcast that’s a co-production of Pushkin Industries, Topic Studios and iHeart Media. He has interviewed, and matched wits with, the biggest stars and thinkers of our time, often on The Dinner Party Download (DPD), a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast about arts & culture that he created and co-hosted. In addition Newnam co-created the critically acclaimed The Paris Review Podcast (“Luminous” the New York Times) and the Met Opera’s Aria Code (“elegantly constructed and effortlessly listenable” The New Yorker.
As Vice President of Special Projects at Pushkin Industries he built and oversaw their audio originals division. He Executive Produced over two dozen productions including Fauci and Higher Animals by Michael Specter, Other People’s Money by Michael Lewis, So Many Steves by Steve Martin and The Bomber Mafia & Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell.
Currently Brendan is Executive Producer of Podcasts at Bloomberg News and oversees the production of Money Stuff, Odd Lots, Elon Inc, and half-dozen other podcasts covering business, finance and politics.
When not filling ears, Brendan fills notebooks—his writing on travel, food, and design has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Saveur. His book Brunch is Hell (Little, Brown) received mentions in media outlets including The New Yorker and Esquire.
And yet despite all of these accomplishments, and despite having been a quickfire judge on Top Chef Masters, despite earning a law degree and being dubbed the “luckiest man alive” by Fast Company magazine, despite all of that, he is proudest of having elicited a formal apology from the Swedish government after penning a column about a bad martini he was served in Stockholm.