Emily Jankowski
Sound Designer
Emily Jankowski is a sound designer for WBUR’s podcast department. She mixes and designs for Endless Thread, Last Seen and The Common.
Before WBUR, Emily was director of sound design for the cross-border podcast Port of Entry for KPBS in San Diego. Emily was first introduced to Boston in 2019 when Port of Entry was selected for PRX’s Project Catapult, a podcast accelerator and training program for public media stations.
Before designing for podcasts, Emily was radio operations assistant at KPBS. She holds a MFA in Sound Design for Theatre from UC San Diego, and a BFA from UC San Diego in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts, Music.
Recently published
Thinking Outside the Dox: What 'consensual doxing' can teach us about internet privacy
A handful of creators on TikTok are making 'consensual doxing' content to encourage viewers to think more deeply about what they post online, and where.
There's a new emoji for sadness :(
What does the thumbs-up emoji mean to you? Or the wilted rose? The meanings of emojis are limitless and can differ across social groups or generations
Why it feels like it rains every weekend
If you feel like it's been raining a lot on the weekends this summer, you're not alone.
Episodes We Love: How to Fight a Shark
When Endless Thread producer Grace Tatter heard a friend assert that she could ward off a shark because of TikTok, Grace was both concerned for her friend's safety, and curious....
The state of speech in Hong Kong, 5 years after China's crackdown
Endless Thread hosts Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson talk with a Hong Kong activist, now living in exile, about what the crackdown has meant for speech and protest, especially...
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Can pizza orders around the Pentagon predict U.S. military action?
In the hours leading up to Israel commencing its June missile strikes on Iran, X users were posting about pizza. Specifically, how pizza places around the United States Pentagon were...
From Endless Thread: When the government wants your socials
Jeffrey Ngo is from Hong Kong. He used to talk about politics all of the time with his friends in group chats and on social media, from casually sending memes,...
What happens to social media when the government is monitoring it?
Jeffrey Ngo is from Hong Kong. He used to talk about politics all of the time with his friends in group chats and on social media, from casually sending memes,...
Get inked! Or... not: Stories from the Internet about tattoos
Ben tells Amory about the r/tattoos community's reaction to a man whose friends made him self-conscious about his flowery tattoo. Amory tells Ben about the science behind why tattoos stay...
Group chats are the 'dark matter of American politics'
Endless Thread sits down with journalist Ben Smith to discuss the private group chats shaping American politics.