David Waters

Award winning narrative audio journalist

Collaborating with other journalists, editors and audio producers to make most some of the most innovative and impactful narrative factual audio of the past decade.

Lead producer

Making in sound-rich, character deeply reported cinematic audio…

Lead producer, Sony / Campside

Witnessed: Borderlands
Lead producer, iHeartRadio podcasts / Novel

Deliver Us From Ervil
Executive producer, iHeartRadio podcasts / Novel

The Superhero Complex
Lead producer, Wondery / Campside

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Lead producer, BBC Sounds / What's The Story, Sounds

Death On The Farm
Lead producer, BBC Radio 4

The Factory of Tears
Lead producer, ABC Earshot

Lives After Hate
Lead producer, BBC / Between The Ears

Omay
Lead producer, BBC / Between The Ears

Second Side Up
Lead producer, The Guardian

Deep Blue Notes
Producer, The Guardian

Today in Focus
Lead Producer, The Financial Times

Everything Else podcast
Lead producer, Gorrilaz Podcast

Things I Like
Lead producer, BBC Radio 4

The Art of Now
Lead producer, Landrover / Mindshare

The Discovery Adventures
Producer, True Spies

Producer, True Spies
Lead producer, BBC Radio 4

A Hacks Progress
Lead producer, BBC Radio 4

The Strange Case of the Arab Noir

Managing producer

Exec producing, story editing, talent wrangling, senior management whispering, colleague counselling . Supporting colleagues to make ground breaking, chart topping work

CBC podcasts - Sea of Lies (coming soon Q1 2025) / Head of Narrative series

Sea Of Lies
iHeartRadio - The Girlfriends / Head of Production

The Girlfriends
iHeartRadio - The Godmother / Head of Production

The Godmother
Wondery - Harsh Reality / Head of Long-form audio

Harsh Reality
Global - Filthy Ritual / Head of Production

Filthy Ritual
Wondery - Stolen Hearts / Head of Long-form audio

Stolen Hearts
Sony - The Emerald Triangle / Head of Production

The Emerald Triangle
iHeartRadio - The Fighty Pucks / Head of Production

The Fighty Pucks

Press & Awards

Vulture - The Best Podcasts of 2022

Award! American Journalism Online Awards – 2022 Winner. Best News-Based Podcast for Suspect

“Using the familiar form of the “murder podcast” Suspect achieves meaningful insight into the mechanisms of racial bias in the criminal justice system, while being a juicy scene-rich, plot-driven story. Suspect dissects police investigation, jury decision-making, and DNA analysis. This podcast is as much a triumph of reporting as it is of writing or production, meeting all the requirements for a good podcast. While the crime at the center of this story is gruesome, there is a restraint, purposefulness, and basic humanity to this podcast worthy of celebration.”

The Guardian - Best podcasts of the week: Deliver Us From Ervil “Colonia LeBaron was meant to be a Mormon utopia – then a family fallout saw organised crime reign. Find out more in Deliver Us From Ervil…. an intriguing story of a utopia that goes very wrong”

Vulture - Podcasts Worth Trying - Deliver Us From Ervil “Deliver Us From Ervil, an audio doc on a 1940s Mormon utopian project gone wrong”

The Guardian - Best podcasts of the week: Inside the life of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real-life superhero “a tale full of deception and intrigue, chronicling his rise to media sensation”

Miranda Sawyer in the Observer on podcasts and radio “a well-made show. Host David Weinberg does a top job, the production is exemplary, and the Seattle superheroes make an excellent story, well told…. The Superhero Complex is destined to be a hit.

Fiona Sturges - Financial Times ”remarkable ….rises to the challenge of taking his subject matter sufficiently seriously while it prances around in a silly costume claiming hero status….There is genuine curiosity in his attempts to understand Jones”

Vulture - Best Podcasts of 2022 “In this fascinating series, David Weinberg (Welcome to LA) builds out a character study of one of the more prominent and complicated figures in the so-called real-life superhero phenomenon: Ben Fodor, a Seattleite who once led a group called the Rain City Superhero Movement and rose to notoriety. Weinberg and his team’s work is effective in their commitment to treating Fodor seriously as a person and in the way they treat the true-crime-y frame of the show with an ironic remove.”

Vulture 1.5x Speed Nick Quah Podcasts of the Month review of The Superhero Complex “rich with weirdness and complication...This bundle of questions and curiosities are alive in The Superhero Complex”

The Awards for Excellence in Audio The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression. Best True Crime Podcast of the Year - Suspect

The New Yorker - Podcast Of The Year: ….. “the greatness of “Suspect”—a crime podcast, …might startle listeners…. its sensitivity and seriousness are evident from the beginning, and its power builds with each episode….. a gripping, character-driven story that always foregrounds the humanity of its subjects, most of whom we empathize with and respect. It’s also a master class in tone, focussing on justice forthrightly without patting itself on the back.”

Vulture / New York Magazine Best Podcast of 2021 - “Suspect stands as the year’s best pure entry in the genre…the series moves away from its whodunit framework toward a meditation on the consequences of systematically shoddy policing

Apple Podcasts - Top New Show - Suspect - The most popular new shows, free channels, and individual shows and channels with subscriptions that launched this year

Vulture / New York magazine review of Suspect “tight as hell….In terms of pure execution, it’s probably the best narrative true-crime podcast I’ve heard all year."