Madeleine Baran
Madeleine Baran is an investigative reporter, best known for her reporting of law enforcement investigations.
Baran is the host and lead reporter of the podcast In the Dark, produced by American Public Media. It was named one of "The Best New Podcasts of 2016" by The New York Times. In 2020, season 2 of In the Dark won the Radio Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.
Before APM, Baran spent six-and-half years at Minnesota Public Radio. In 2013 and 2014, Baran led MPR’s award-winning coverage of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ sex abuse scandals, “Betrayed by Silence”. Her reporting led to the resignation of the archbishop, criminal charges against the archdiocese, and lawsuits by victims of clergy sex abuse.
Baran has received the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for excellence in journalism in the public service. Her work has also won a Peabody Award, a Gracie Award, and two national Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
Baran is from Milwaukee. She studied at Hampshire College and New York University, where she received a master’s degree in Journalism and French Studies.
