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Julia Barton

(She/Her)
Cambridge
As seen in: Continuous Wave, Apple Podcasts, Medium, BBC, Soundcloud, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Nieman Lab, The World from PRX, Marketplace and
Covers:  immigration, history, arts, ukraine, health, russia, culture, urban development, music, texas, broadcast history
Nieman Fellow 2023-24 ex: VP/Executive Editor, Pushkin Industries she/her QRT SP

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Julia Barton’s Biography

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Julia Barton is an audio story editor, scriptwriter and educator. As RadioWright LLC, she has served clients including Pushkin Industries, WNYC and Fountain Productions. A 2023-24 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Barton was the founding editor of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast "Revisionist History" and Michael Lewis's "Against the Rules," as well as Jill Lepore's "The Last Archive" and Tim Harford's "Cautionary Tales." She's been a senior editor at PRX's The World, as well as managing editor of…

Julia Barton’s Journalist Portfolio

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RadioWright | Expert Script Writing Editing and Consulting

RadioWright | Expert Script Writing Editing and Consulting

Radio Wright, led by Julia Barton, specializes in podcast and audiobook production, editing, and storytelling…

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Spacebridge

Spacebridge

Documentary Podcast · 6 Episodes · Complete Series

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BBC Radio 4 - Lights Out, Big Tex

BBC Radio 4 - Lights Out, Big Tex

Documentary adventures that encourage you to take a closer listen.

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Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Neither Confirm Nor Deny

How a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has ho…

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Returning to the secret government lab where my grandfather worked

Returning to the secret government lab where my grandfather worked

My grandfather, Charles Barton Sr., was a man of many contradictions. The son of religious Appalachian parent…

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The Falling of the Lenins - 99% Invisible

The Falling of the Lenins - 99% Invisible

On the night of December 8, 2013, a huge crowd gathered on a tree-lined boulevard in downtown Kiev, the capit…

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Articles

Queen of the Kilocycles

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By Julia Barton
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Welcome to Continuous Wave, your home for essays, histories, and reflections on modern media from the POV of audio — a project of story editor Julia Barton. Summer 2026 teeters in the Northern Hemisphere between elegiac and terrifying, as we swelter under heat domes, wildfire smoke and/or drone netting, waiting for the end of the world, or at least the end of the World Cup. Now we must add the declaration of a minor apocalypse for producers who make programs and stories in audio form.
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🇨🇦 Radio Revolutionary

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By Julia Barton, Craig Desson Verified
| Continuous Wave
Welcome to Continuous Wave, your home for essays, histories, and reflections on modern media from the POV of audio — a project of story editor Julia Barton. Note from Julia: My first few years in radio were spent at an NPR affiliate in Iowa that regularly featured programs from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. That’s when I first got to hear the evening news magazine As It Happens. I was taken in by its warm voices and often irreverent humor.
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Sweet Deceit

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By Julia Barton
| Continuous Wave
Welcome to Continuous Wave, your home for essays, histories, and reflections on modern media from the POV of audio — a project of story editor Julia Barton. Radio’s mighty percussionists Have you ever attended the symphony and decided to focus on the percussion section in the back?
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

oh yes.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Pro Tools, Hindenberg Pro, DropBox, GoogleDocs and the usual array of stuff on any computer.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Edited the newspaper AND yearbook for a high school of 4000 in Dallas.