Over five weeks of Spring 2025 semester, Pushkin Industries senior producer and host Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey took selected Berkeley undergraduates through the process of building an audio story — from story-hunting, sourcing, reporting, and researching to drafting and editing. Drawing on his experience making chart-topping narrative shows Revisionist History and The Last Archive and working with authors such as Jill Lepore and Malcolm Gladwell, Naddaff-Hafrey taught his students how to look for stories and build them into full podcast episodes. Workshop participants learned to build audio stories from the ground up, and left the workshop having made a short audio story of their own.
Brooke Kirchner was a student in the podcasting workshop, and she produced this story about the man known throughout Berkeley as Hate Man, and his philosophy of “oppositionality.” Listen to her audio profile below:
Read the Hate Man transcript here.