Producer

Founding producer at Gimlet Media. Senior Producer at The New York Times, where she co-created Day X and Animal and led international coverage for The Daily. Now producing and editing independently in Berlin.

Kaitlin Roberts
Selected Shows
  • Animal Co-creator · The New York Times
    2024 +

    Narrative series on climate, culture, and the human–animal relationship.

  • Day X Co-creator · The New York Times
    2022 +

    Investigative series on far-right extremism inside Germany's security forces. RIAS Award winner.

    • Part 1: Shadow Army?
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    • Part 2: In the Stomach
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    • Part 3: Blind Spot 2.0
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    • Part 4: Franco A.
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    • Part 5: Defensive Democracy
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  • The Daily Senior Producer, International · NYT
    2020–2022 +

    Led international coverage for the world's most-downloaded news podcast.

    • All episodes by Kaitlin Roberts
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  • Heavyweight Senior Producer · Gimlet Media
    2016–2018 +

    Narrative storytelling about the moment everything went wrong.

    • All episodes
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  • Crimetown Senior Producer · Gimlet Media
    2016–2017 +

    An investigation into organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island.

    • The Mayor of Providence
      Ep. 1
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  • StartUp Senior Producer · Gimlet Media
    2014–2016 +

    Season 1 (Gimlet's origin story) and Season 2 (Dating Ring), plus select episodes.

    • Season 1 — Gimlet
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    • Season 2 — Dating Ring
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    • Pirate Joe
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    • 2680 Madison Road
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  • Airlift Editor & Producer · Berlin Review
    2025– +

    Conversations with writers at Berlin's literary institutions. Episodes since January 2025.

    • Lauren Oyler on Perfection
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    • Maaza Mengiste at Chapters
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    • All episodes ↗
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About

Kaitlin Roberts is an audio producer and writer based in Berlin. She spent a decade inside American podcast journalism, from Gimlet's earliest days to The New York Times, making work that ranged from investigative series on far-right extremism in the German military to a show about what we owe the animals we share the planet with.

Her essays and fiction are about memory, objects, and the places where the ordinary gets strange. Check them out over there →

She was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and has received the RIAS, Gerald Loeb, and Gracie Awards. She is open to new projects. Get in touch.

Writer

Essays and fiction on memory, objects, and the uncanny. Published in Narrative, New Ohio Review, Hobart, ASAP Journal, Traffic East, and others.

kaitlinelaineroberts@gmail.com Substack Instagram
Selected Work
Newsletter

Twenty Blocks

Birds, books, boxes, and other objects that arrive uninvited with a piece of the puzzle. Dispatches from Berlin.

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