Grace Tatter
Producer, WBUR Podcasts
Grace Tatter is a producer for WBUR Podcasts.
She recently worked as an independent journalist and audio producer, including as the producer of The Great Wager for WBUR Podcasts and Here & Now.
She first came to WBUR as an intern with the local news desk in 2017 and was a producer at On Point.
She moved to Boston to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Before that, she was the Tennessee statehouse reporter for Chalkbeat, a non-profit news organization focused on education.
Grace graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the home of the Krispy Kreme doughnut and Hanesbrands underwear, among other things.
Recently published
Ben Palmer's Brain: Why the comedian made a fake deportation tip line — and why so many people are laughing
Ben Palmer set up a fake tip line for people to report immigrants in the United States, and recorded the conversations. Things got uncomfortable and, to some, surprisingly funny. How...
Extraordinary vs. Extra Ordinary: High heels in high places and a celebration of the quotidian
Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson take a hike with producer Grace Tatter, following the digital trail of "Ridiculoubs" — a mysterious climber who traverses the world's peaks in...
Saturn's mysterious hexagon-shaped storm has internet conspiracy theories swirling
Endless Thread goes to space! First, host Ben Brock Johnson goes deep on radio signals of unknown origin, with an assist from real-life radio astronomer and Reddit MVP Yvette Cendes,...
This man has allegedly been buying and returning an anvil on Amazon for almost a year
A guy in Illinois claims to be buying and returning anvils through Amazon, as a form of protest, or maybe just performance art.
Unpacking Afroman's Viral Defamation Trial
Afroman made his name in the early 2000s with the hit song "Because I Got High." More than two decades later, he's having another break out moment. Host Ben Brock...
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Sexy spines or literary red flags: Reddit's bookshelf detectives will judge you by your covers
Maybe you can't judge books by their covers. But can you judge people by their books? Reddit's bookshelf detectives say yes. Producer Kalyani Saxena guides hosts Ben and Amory through...
Digging up Lily's Garden: Why did a mobile puzzle game have such weird ads?
In 2019, the internet was abuzz about bizarre ads for a mobile game called Lily's Garden. The ads were only about 15 seconds each, but they evoked a whole universe...
Fresh, stale, or politics? The Melania documentary's Rotten Tomatoes score, explained
Melania, a documentary about the first lady, has a 10 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, but a 90 percent score from audience members, an unusual discrepancy that raises...
'The Devil You Know': Sarah Marshall on the connection between a 1980s Satanic Panic and the internet today
Sarah Marshall of You're Wrong About has a new podcast about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s called The Devil You Know. She talks to Ben and Amory about the...
The Anvillain: Has this man really been buying and returning an anvil on Amazon for almost a year?
When producer Grace Tatter sees a video of a man claiming that he's continuously ordering and returning an 110-pound anvil from Amazon with no repercussions, she has questions. Is this...