About Us

Located in Los Angeles CA and New York, NY

Joanne Faryon – Founder and Executive Producer 

Joanne founded Garage Media in 2018. She is an award-winning journalist, a Columbia Graduate School of Journalism faculty member and podcaster. She is the creator and host of the hit podcast Room 20, a production of the LA Times Studios and helped develop TCM’s hit narrative podcast, The Plot Thickens

Sam Tari – Associate Producer

Sam contributes to editorial and production for Garage Media. He previously worked on the hit podcast Room 20 and is now working on Garage Media’s new project Irreconcilable Differences. Sam is also a practicing attorney in the state of California.

Contributors: 

Susan White 

Susan has edited Pulitzer Prize-winning projects at InsideClimate News, ProPublica and the San Diego Union Tribune. Her most recent project, Fumed, a four-part investigative podcast,  recently won a Barlett and Steele award for investigative business journalism.

Dale Maharidge

Dale is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He created Audible’s hit podcast, The Dead Drink First and was a writer on the award-winning TCM podcast The Plot Thickens. He’s currently working on his second novel.

Peter Leonard

With more than a decade of experience on top-100 podcasts including The Journal, Science Vs, The Ezra Klein Show, StartUp, and The Weeds, Peter Leonard is a force in audio and video storytelling. An award-winning audio engineer, composer, sound designer, and video editor, his work spans Spotify Studios, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Gimlet Media, SiriusXM, Vox Media, and This American Life, among others.