Ian Coss
@ian_coss
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Producer/Composer/Sound Designer with @PRX and @Radiotopia. Creator of Forever is a Long Time, @newts_pod, The Big Dig, and Movement with Meklit Hadero.
Boston, Ma
Joined September 2014
Here's my argument: if you want to understand how infrastructure does and doesn't get built in America today, there is no better single case study, than the Big Dig. The trailer is out now from @GBHNews; series launches Sept 27th. @PRX @ApplePodcasts
https://t.co/UeXlvOMMs8
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History Podcast · Series · “This is a town where there are three pastimes: politics, sports and revenge.” Seemingly dry topics become gripping political dramas in this Peabody Award winning show...
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When I was working on The Big Dig story with @GBHNews I would always hear about the OTHER city crazy enough to replace an elevated highway with a tunnel. Next week I'm going to see it for myself.... The Big Dig LIVE @ Seattle Public Library, Oct 27 https://t.co/xKIvVPlLBw
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🚧THE BIG DIG is going on tour! 🚧 We'll be LIVE in #Seattle & #Portland next week, talking about the past & future of America's urban highways. And boy do these cities have some stories...tell your friends! SEATTLE: https://t.co/yCaSvJsg2C PORTLAND:
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Join KUOW's Booming & GBH's The Big Dig podcasts for this FREE event on Monday, October 27 in Seattle. RSVP is required to attend.
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In a seasons collide moment: Carmen DeNunzio was forced out of the numbers racket by the state lottery, only to get busted on a bribe for a Big Dig contract. DeNunzio died this week at 68 -- 'the last nice wise guy' in Boston -- obit by @GlobeCullen
https://t.co/epvSiEv1on
bostonglobe.com
DiNunzio’s rapid rise through the ranks was due less to any particular acumen as a gangster and more to do with attrition.
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"We're Doing the Wiz" is coming home to Western MA -- Saturday Oct 4 at @nepublicmedia in Springfield. Sakina and I will be there w behind the scenes details, special guests, and of course...live music. Tickets & details: https://t.co/KKo5eid3Cn
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You can find me at the @museumofscience tonight at 7pm playing immersive surround sound stories. DM me for a ticket discount... https://t.co/5d0JjvxqpQ
mos.org
Experience a one-of-a-kind blindfolded sensory performance that invites you to rediscover the world through sound. Only in the Mugar Omni Theater!
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Join me at the @museumofscience next week for a live show in the Mugar Omni theatre -- the only show to use that space without using the screen! It’s audio only, with the room blacked out, in 5.1 sorouuuuuund. And come get ice cream at Toscanini's after... https://t.co/5d0JjvwSAi
mos.org
Experience a one-of-a-kind blindfolded sensory performance that invites you to rediscover the world through sound. Only in the Mugar Omni Theater!
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This year, the makers of The Big Dig returned with another hit: Scratch and Win. 🎰 In this Best So Far pick from @GBHNews, @ian_coss deconstructs the complicated history of the lottery to uncover deeper truths about the American dream. https://t.co/PU0cyuqL6v
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We must be the hilariously heartwarming comedy!
☑️ Hilariously heartwarming comedy ☑️ Hard-hitting true crime ☑️ Fun-filled finance 2025 is already such a great year for new podcasts that we couldn't wait to share the love. Tap into Best So Far, our list of the best new listens of the year. https://t.co/xHlSCuQIfs
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A strong, if belated, recommendation for @ian_coss 's podcast Scratch & Win about the rise of the Mass. Lottery. A total joy with a keen sense of how the old politics actually got played. I found myself talking back to the audio in a Boston accent:
wgbh.org
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought...
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@ian_coss @GBHNews @prx @ApplePodcasts Just discovered 'The Big Dig' podcast series, am in Part 5 now, and Wow! I had to come by here quick Ian, and say: Very well done! Has your work often been compared to another producer? I ask, because when I first started to listen, it reminded me of a 7 Peabody Award Winner 😀
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This show has been blessed with so much support from @radiotopia @TribecaAudio @prx @MassHumanities and the many friends/collaborators who pushed it along, especially my fabulous co-creator and co-host Sakina Ibrahim, and the many folks from our school who shared their stories.
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This project started when the 2020 racial justice energy was hot, but it feels right to release now. This show is about the afterword -- after the crisis, after the rallies and big gestures -- what has changed and what has not? Listen, share, and let us know what you think!
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It's 🚀 Day for "WE'RE DOING THE WIZ": the story of a small-town high school trying to stage an iconic Black musical in the midst of bussing, racial integration, and general theater kid drama. Did I mention it was my high school?
podcasts.apple.com
Society & Culture Podcast · Weekly Series · In 2004, a racial controversy erupted at a small, mostly white performing arts high school in rural Massachusetts. There were protests. TV news crews. A...
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We're doin' it! Trailer is out. Premiere at @TribecaAudio is today. Episode one next week. Welcome to the world of my performing arts high school. @MassHumanities @radiotopia @prx
https://t.co/0m1B6oC674
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Podcast Episode · Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz · S16 Trailer · 3m
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Can't recommend any more highly @ian_coss's @WGBH podcast "The Big Dig." The series was almost flawless, and should interest people well outside of Boston. I sat down for an interview with Ian to discuss WHY NOTHING WORKS. https://t.co/KcEBZpjusu
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · The Big Dig · S2, E11 Bonus · 44m
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I didn't wanna do it I didn't wanna do it
Well it finally happened. I started singing "You Made Me Love You" (as once performed by MA State Treasurer Bob Crane) while cooking dinner. Enough @GBH @PRX #ScratchAndWin will do that to you. Thanks @ian_coss.
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Our @GBHNews team has now done two major doc projects, one on the state lottery and one on the Big Dig. Today in the feed, I talk w @MarcDunkelman about why these two stories about government endeavors play out so so differently. https://t.co/o6Xvbb4kK8
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · The Big Dig · S2, E11 Bonus · 44m
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A must listen. Amazing work @ian_coss
From the team behind the Peabody Award-winning "The Big Dig" comes a new podcast about the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. @GBHNews’ "Scratch and Win" is available now, wherever you get your podcasts ➡️ https://t.co/a5Yx6bdyYm
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You're still a young man...baby, oooh oooh https://t.co/sjsj3odYMi
@ian_coss @GBHNews @prx @ApplePodcasts I’m through Episode 7 so a few more to go. So far the Big Dig podcast is a masterclass of balanced deep dive new journalism that is extremely important. @GBH hang onto this young man he’s a budding star and I’m looking forward to the Lottery series.
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