The Podcast Where Death Isn’t the End of the Story
About the Show
Dead Reckoning is the podcast where death isn’t the end of the story. Our conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history, and social justice. We focus on the San Francisco Bay Area but often stray into the wider world.
Hosted by writer and creator Courtney Minick, and journalist and author Beth Winegarner, based in San Francisco.
Produced by Carolyn Kissick and Here Lies a Story. Artwork by Dante Silliman.
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Courtney Minick
Courtney is a storyteller with a career spanning technology, law, politics, and creative media. She is the creator of Here Lies a Story, a multi-platform storytelling project that explores history, folklore, and the way the buried past continues to shape our present.
Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who’s contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, most recently San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History.
In Our Community
The Order of the Good Death
Best New Podcast
“Podcasts that are entertaining while covering death accurately and compassionately are few and far between, so we were excited to see Dead Reckoning debut this year. Hosted by a journalist and historian whose conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history and social justice.”
MISSION LOCAL
‘I’m proud of my hearse!’ Dead Reckoning takes on death in the Bay Area
“Beth Winegarner and Courtney Minick know where the bodies are buried — and have the podcast to prove it.”