Ilana on the subway

Ilana Levinson

Narrative Producer & Audio Journalist

ilana@levinson.me

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::: Selected Works :::

Unsettled Podcast · Co-Founder

Wartime Coverage from Israel–Palestine →

Award-winning rapid-response reporting spotlighting voices from the ground. Led production on a 4-part in-depth series about the Gaza Strip.

Press: CJR · Irish Times · The Verge

PRX · Things That Go Boom

Labor, Logistics & the Supply Chain of War →

Audio documentary on social movements and dock worker unions targeting companies supplying military goods.

Audible · In The Room / Words + Music

Narrative Documentaries →

An investigation into the intersection of federal surveillance and the American entertainment industry; and a history of the Blues Brothers, including never-before-heard interview tape of John Belushi.

BBC World Service · Sundance Institute

The Documentary →

26-minute audio documentary. Editorial vision, field production, sound design.

::: Press & Praise :::

The Irish Times · Oct 2023

“These are the kinds of conversations we need to listen to but cannot hear over the sound of violence.” →

Columbia Journalism Review · Nov 2023

“We are really rigorous with our reporting and careful in who we speak to. What we're trying to demonstrate is that it's possible to be rigorous without losing moral clarity.” →

Bello Collective · Feb 2019

“The show is dense with history and emotion, and wonderfully produced.” →

INN · 2024 Nonprofit News Award

Compulsively Readable: Finalists Showcase the Storytelling Power of Nonprofit News →

::: More Work :::

BBC World Service

The Shepherd and the Settler →

26-minute documentary about a Palestinian shepherd fighting for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

+972 Magazine

Will this Palestinian matriarch keep her Jerusalem home? →

Reporting on the Israeli legal system that allows settler groups to manipulate history and uproot Palestinian families.

Jewish Currents Magazine

Talking to Our Families →

Unsettled · Gaza Series

Hamas, Explained · The Great March · Energy · Refugees →

Four-part series: Tareq Baconi on Hamas; the Great March of Return; engineer Majd Mashharawi harnessing sunlight in Gaza; Hilmi Hammad, who became a refugee at 18 when his village was depopulated in 1948.

::: More from Unsettled :::

::: News Pieces :::

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