Josh Dean Campside Media

Josh Dean is a journalist, author, and co-founder of the acclaimed podcast production studio Campside Media, whose first original podcast, The Clearing, was called a “new true-crime classic” by The New Yorker and “astonishing…an immense achievement” by The Guardian, and spent nearly two months at #1 on the Apple podcast charts. He co-created Campside’s first show, Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, which peaked at #2 on the charts and helped solve a crime, and then made Hooked, which was nominated for Podcast of the Year by the Podcast Academy. He is a correspondent for Outside and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a regular contributor to GQ and Popular Science, and the author of two books, Show Dog and The Taking of K-129, with a third book, The Impossible Factory, about the legendary aerospace designer Kelly Johnson and his Lockheed Skunk Works, in the works for Dutton.