King Kaufman

Location
- Durham, NC
Portfolio
King is available for
I'm a veteran journalist and podcaster, on both sides of the mic, looking for audio editing, production, hosting or voiceover work.- Editing
- Producing
- Scripting
- Voice
- Writing
About King
I'm a veteran journalist and podcaster/broadcaster who was most recently executive producer for audio at the San Francisco Chronicle. I built and ran the Chronicle's podcast team, created and hosted the Not Your Century podcast and developed and produced the flagship daily news podcast Fifth & Mission. I also executive produced the weekly solutions journalism podcast Fixing Our City, helped develop the food show Extra Spicy, and created and produced the narrative miniseries Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris, which won the Webby Award for Best Documentary Podcast of 2020. As an independent podcaster, I created and hosted the documentary series Can't Win 4 Losing. From 2014-17 I hosted a daily interview show on Bleacher Report SiriusXM Radio called "Content Is King."
As a writer and editor, I've worked for Salon, Bleacher Report, The Athletic, Baseball Prospectus, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), and the San Francisco Examiner. I also had a whole career playing in touring punk and punk-rockabilly bands. Details available on request, sometimes.
King's Portfolio

I conceived, produced, co-wrote, edited and mixed this 6-episode limited-series about Kamala Harris after she was named as Joe Biden's running mate. Working with two reporter/hosts, we created the entire series — roughly 1 hour, 45 minutes of reported, produced audio — in about a month. It won the 2021 Webby Award for Best Documentary Podcast.

A podcast about losing. I created, hosted and did all production work on this independent documentary podcast about losing in sports in 2017.
Experience
Skills
- Mixing
- Voice Coaching
- Story Editing
- Sound Design
- Show Development
- Reporting
- Producing
- Interviewing
- Hosting
- Voiceover