Jetty is an audio-focused media brand from Al Jazeera. We connect listeners around the world with podcasts that are engaging, challenging, and consequential.

 

The Take
with Imtiaz Tyab

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Jetty Releases Season Two of Game of Our Lives, a podcast about understanding the world through its most popular sport: football (or, for US audiences, soccer). Season 2 launches June 8, one week before the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Episodes will air weekly, moving to twice a week during the World Cup competition to stay responsive to the action on and off the pitch.

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Jetty Launches New Podcast Series, Game of Our Lives a weekly podcast examining the modern world through the lens of the world's most popular sport: football (aka soccer). Following on the success of Jetty's inaugural show, Closer Than They Appear (debuted November 2017), Game of Our Lives is the studio's first internationally focused podcast aimed at global audiences interested in topics beyond their own borders.

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Al Jazeera Launches Jetty, New Audio-First Brand Jetty brings diverse voices and engaging video to podcasting; debut is Closer Than They Appear. "Podcasting has immense room for growth in the U.S. and globally," said Kaizar Campwala, general manager of Jetty. "We're setting out to connect new listeners around the world to personality-driven shows and hosts that are expansive, challenging and inspiring."

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PRAISE FOR JETTY'S DEBUT PODCAST
 

"In conversation with smart, interesting people (Mahershala Ali; Shereen Marisol Meraji) who are also worrying away at this question - the question of what, exactly, America is now, and what it might become - Wallace shines as a giving, deep-thinking interlocutor. " 
-- The Audit

 

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OUR shows

THE TAKE

Staying on top of global headlines is a daunting task. Understanding what’s really happening is harder. The Take is here to help. Join host Imtiaz Tyab every Friday for international news stories - the big ones, and the ones you didn’t know you were missing.

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GAME OF OUR LIVES

Whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t understand it without understanding the modern world — and you can’t understand the modern world without understanding its most popular sport. Join host David Goldblatt for conversations about politics, culture, economics, immigration, religion, cinema — and of course, some all-time favorite goals.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, or on Facebook Watch.

Game of Our Lives is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.

 

CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

How do you go forward when the past is breathing down your neck? Carvell Wallace talks to Americans grappling with the state of union while trying to reconcile his own family's fractured history. If America is an estranged family, this show is our awkward holiday dinner.

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Closer Than They Appear is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.

 
 

team jetty

Kaizar Campwala - General Manager

Graelyn Brashear  Lead Producer

Imtiaz Tyab Producer and Host of The Take

Morgan Waters  Senior Editor

Jasmin Bauomy Senior Producer

Raja Shah  Senior Producer

Kyana Moghadam Producer

Jordan Bailey Associate Producer and Operations Chief

Ian Coss  Sound Designer

Meradith Hoddinott Sound Designer