Samara Freemark
Managing Producer
Samara Freemark is the co-creator and managing producer of APM Reports’ investigative podcast In the Dark. Prior to that role, she covered education and veterans' issues as a producer on APM Reports’ documentary team. She has also worked as a reporter and producer with Radio Diaries and covered local news and environmental issues for the NPR station WUOM in Ann Arbor. Her work has received numerous national awards, including three George Foster Peabody Awards, the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Third Coast Gold Award, among others. Freemark holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in urban planning from the University of Michigan.