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Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts that have transformed the medium. Sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter to find out about new shows, get behind the scenes stories, and see photos and videos you can’t see on a podcast. To get full access to Serial Productions shows, and to other New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at [email protected] "Serial" began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show "This American Life." In 2017, we formed Serial Productions when we launched the podcast “S-Town.” Since then, Serial Productions has produced every season of “Serial” along with shows like “Nice White Parents,” “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” “The Retrievals” and more. In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
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The Preventionist - Ep. 3
Oct 30, 2025What’s the harm of “better safe than sorry” in cases where abuse is ambiguous? One mother’s story is our answer to that question. Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wh...
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This episode follows Amanda Surinofsky's harrowing journey through the child welfare system after her newborn son was injured in what she claims was an accident involving her toddler. Despite Amanda's explanation, Dr. Deborah Asernio-Jensen's child protection team diagnosed abusive head trauma, leading to the removal of all five of Amanda's children for nearly four years. The episode explores the devastating impact of family separation, questions the certainty of medical diagnoses in abuse cases, and reveals Amanda's ongoing struggle to reunite her family—including a custody battle for her youngest son who has been in foster care so long he barely knows her as his mother.
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