A new Serial podcast episode is now available, almost eight years after the 2014 series investigated the conviction of Adnan Syed for the alleged murder of his former girlfriend. That conviction has ...

Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the popular podcast Serial, has been released from prison after a judge overturned his conviction on Monday. The podcast returned to the subject of ...

Syed, who spent 23 years in jail after being convicted for the death of his high school classmate, was released from prison last month. Prosecutors have officially dropped all charges against Adnan ...

Do true-crime podcasts have the endurance to sustain their dominance in podcast ratings? Or will political and comedy ...

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The New York Times acquired Serial Productions, the company behind the eponymous breakout true-crime podcast, in July 2020. It now has its first Serial Productions podcast hosted by one of its own ...

A prerecorded Global Tel Link notice, Nick Thorburn’s plinking theme song, the drop in the beat — it’s almost Pavlovian how Serial’s opening sequence can take you back nearly eight years. The rest of ...

The 1999 murder of Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee is now an unsolved case. Prosecutors formally drop all charges against Syed. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie ...

A 15-year-old murder case is now riveting the nation. The attention doesn't come courtesy of a new TV series or movie, or anything involving a screen, for that matter, but a free podcast called ...

A judge vacated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction for the 1999 death of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled on the hit “Serial” podcast. The state’s attorney for Baltimore City said a nearly yearlong ...

Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the hit podcast "Serial," was released from prison on Monday. Sarah Koenig, the host of "Serial," told The New York Times that she "did not see this ...