Neil drumming biography

American journalist and filmmaker

Neil Drumming is an American journalist and filmmaker. Formerly a producer with the radio show This American Life, in 2020 Drumming became managing editor with Serial Productions, the company that created the podcasts Serial and S-Town.

Drumming began his career writing for the Washington City Paper, and later wrote for Entertainment Weekly and Salon.

Neil Drumming - The New York Times

He also wrote and directed the 2014 film Big Words.

Early life

Drumming attended the University of Southern California.^[1]

Career

Journalism

After graduating from college, Drumming went to work for the Washington City Paper in 1996. He was part of a group of hires by editor David Carr^[2] that included several young black writers who went on to become voices of their generation: hired alongside Drumming that year were eventual New Yorker magazine staffer and history professor Jelani Cobb, MacArthur GeniusTa-Nehisi Coates, and performa Neil Drumming: In his own words - BBC WIL