Vika

Aronson

MAKING THE WORLD LESS BAD …

ONE PODCAST AT A TIME


ABOUT ME

I got my start in radio/ podcasts as a First Voice Media Apprentice at KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where I produced, reported, and hosted cultural affairs radio magazine, Full Circle. I was an intern with public radio legends, The Kitchen Sisters, and freelanced for public radio and podcast outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington DC — places like KALW, Panoply, and Stitcher.

I landed my first newsroom gig at PBS NewsHour, where I did some of the work I’m most proud of, like Broken Justice, a podcast about America’s broken public defense system, and our coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which won a Peabody.

Now I’m at ABC News , where I write and produce longform, narrative podcast series and day-of news segments for our flagship daily podcast Start Here. I also write and produce Start Here specials, such as On the Brink about women who face life-threatening delays to healthcare because of abortion restrictions, Divert the Police about mental health policing in the Bay Area, and Mother Tongue/ родной язык, about Russian Americans’ reaction to the war in Ukraine, which won an inaugural Signal Award for Best Writing, Listener’s Choice.


MY PODCAST PHILOSOPHY

I’m always looking for ways to reveal the truth about the world through sound.

Hosting Full Circle at KPFA