Audible Announces Multi-Project Deal with Acclaimed Journalist Ronan Farrow
Audible today announced a multi-project deal with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Ronan Farrow. Farrow’s The Catch and Kill Podcast, which has received the Edward R. Murrow Award, has been downloaded more than nine million times. Farrow has also been nominated for Peabody and Grammy Awards for his work in podcast and audiobook narration.
Not a Very Good Murderer, a wild, genre-bending investigative podcast hosted by Farrow, will release March 20, 2025, as the first project from this newly formed collaboration. Based on years of painstaking reporting, the series follows Farrow as he sets out to vet a political lead and instead stumbles into a series of cold cases in one of America’s wealthiest gated communities—and an explosive relationship with the colorful central source who holds the key to solving them. Not a Very Good Murderer is a propulsive true-crime thriller and a tragicomic character study that captures how secrets echo through families and communities. It offers an uncensored portrait of what it takes for a journalist to fact-check a high-stakes story involving unreliable sources, at a moment when the concept of truth can feel endangered.
Ronan Farrow said, “I’m really looking forward to telling stories through this relationship. We need companies that are willing to platform investigative journalism—and, more broadly, companies willing to put nuanced, complicated, original stories into the world. That starts with Not a Very Good Murderer, which defies neat categorization and I think people will find surprising in a lot of ways.”
Rachel Ghiazza, Chief Content Officer at Audible, said: “Ronan Farrow is a generational talent in the field of investigative journalism. For years, I’ve read and listened in awe of his ability to illuminate hard truths with rare insight and nuance. Not a Very Good Murderer finds this storytelling wunderkind at the apex of his powers, expertly peeling back the layers of his most eccentric subject yet. I’m thrilled to welcome Ronan to Audible to pursue the stories he’s most passionate about.”
Farrow’s investigative work joins a growing slate of reporting podcasts from Audible including Leon Neyfakh and Prologue Projects’ Think Twice: Michael Jackson and the Backfired series, Jon Ronson’s The Debutante, and more. Not a Very Good Murderer is the latest title in an expanding offering of original listening content on Audible, including titles from development deals with other top industry creatives such as President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street, Daniel Dae Kim’s 3AD Productions, Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video Enterprises, and James Patterson Entertainment.
