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5 / 5

Dina Temple-Raston's investigative journalism podcast for Recorded Future News — long-form reporting on cyber operations, intelligence, and the people who actually do the work, with the access her NPR-veteran credentials give her.

Hosts
Dina Temple-Raston
Running
2021–
Network
Recorded Future
Status
Active
Language
English

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Listen if

Anyone who wants the closest thing to NPR-grade journalism in the cybersecurity podcast space. Temple-Raston's reporting standards, source access, and willingness to spend weeks on a single story make this the genre's quality leader.

Skip if

Listeners wanting weekly news or opinion; Click Here publishes when stories land and the cadence is unpredictable. Also wrong if you want technical deep-dives — Temple-Raston is reporting institutions and people, not binaries.

Key takeaways

  • The investigation arcs (the Iranian operation against US water utilities, the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, the Volt Typhoon coverage) are the format's strongest material and the reason to subscribe.
  • Temple-Raston's NPR background shows in the production values — pacing, scoring, editing — that most security podcasts don't approach.
  • Recorded Future's sponsorship is acknowledged but doesn't visibly shape the editorial; treat it as funded journalism that has earned its independence.

Notes

Pair with Risky Business for the weekly-news complement, with The Lazarus Heist for the BBC-investigative sibling, and with Sandworm (Greenberg) for the print-journalism register. Required listening for anyone whose work touches cyber-policy, threat intelligence, or the human side of nation-state operations.