New York Festivals Shortlist Cited for Best Education Podcast

The Rationality Wars was Cited’s returning season, and it explored the political and intellectual battles to define rationality and irrationality. The season featured longform documentaries on a variety of topics, including: how long-discredited ideas from crowd psychology continue to influence perceptions of protest and social unrest; historical and ongoing battles to depathologize diverse forms of sexual and gender identity; and how behavioural economics quietly undermined the jury system and bolstered corporate-led tort reform movements. For a full list of episodes, you can visit the season’s landing page.

Cited Media shares New York Festival honours with other finalists from all over the globe, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, NPR, the Washington Post, Netflix, and others. As a small independent podcasting house, we especially are proud that our programming continually reaches such high levels of journalism excellence. We were only able to do so on account of Cited Media’s unique method of podcast co-creation, which partners journalists, scholars, and students in production. For the the Rationality Wars Cited Media producers worked with a large team from York University’s Department of Psychology, as well as media partners from Canada’s National Observer, the Harbinger Media Network, and the New Books Network.

The season was produced by Cited Media producers Gordon Katic, Marc Apollonio, Alec Opperman, Nadeen Shaker, Jay Cockburn, and with support from producer Katy Davis and contributing editor Sandra Bartlett (Canada’s National Observer). For more on the Cited team, visit the podcast’s about page. Additionally, we had research and consulting from leading scholars at York University’s Department of Psychology and at University of Akron’s Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. The scholarly advisor team includes: Drs. Michael Pettit, Alexandra Rutherford, Donald V. Brown, and Cathy Faye. Additionally, we had research from York University graduate students Hannie Smolyanitsky, David Berman, and Michael Stead. All of these participants are nominees for the New York Festivals award.