NEW MEDIA EXECUTIVEMedia innovator with over 20 years of senior leadership (Wavland, Imperative Entertainment, WWE, Discovery, HowStuffWorks) and start-ups (Echo, Tout).Awards and Recognition:Apple Podcasts ‘Best of 2021’ + ‘Best of 2022’ Top Subscriptions, Imperative Entertainment Webby AwardsBoomtown, Honoree, 2021In the Red Clay, Honoree, 2021The Comeback, Nominee, 2022The Agent, Honoree, 2022Operation Morning Light, Nominee, 2023The Cost of Happiness, Nominee, 2023Top New PodcastsIn the Red Clay, Podtrac 2020Fox Hunter, Podtrac 2021Critical Reviews:The AgentAirMail“In a riveting new podcast, The Agent, Barsky candidly recounts every twist and bad turn in his career—from his Communist childhood and recruitment at the University of Jena to his life after espionage. Barsky gave the K.G.B. valuable secrets, but it’s the secrets he withheld—from his handlers, wives, colleagues, neighbors, and children—that are truly priceless.”BoomtownPodcast Review“Boomtown is a piece of reporting that is only possible from the intimate vantage of an upbringing in West Texas, of summers riding horses and shooting BB guns at grandma’s ranch, drinking beers by rusty rigs in high school, and of roughnecking for a year before the previous bust hit.”In the Red ClayVulture“A wild tale of moonshine, murder, and mayhem”Elizabeth the FirstThe Toronto Star“sumptuously produced”Operation Morning LIghtFinancial Times"Best Podcasts of 2022"BonapartePaste Magazine“Best Podcasts of 2022”The Paddlefish Caviar HeistFinancial Times"A Hollywood thriller begging to be made"“Best True Crime Podcast” nominee, 2023 Ambies. Atlanta MonsterIndie Wire‘Atlanta Monster’: The First Blockbuster Podcast of 2018 is a Complex Look at a City Wrestling with Its PastThe Baron of BotoxVogue“This New Podcast Takes a Deep Dive Into the Life and Death of Famed Cosmetic Dermatologist Fredric Brandt”StandoffVulture“Journalist Wes Ferguson… weaves a fascinating yarn using new interviews as well as unearthed tapes of Carrasco’s hostage-negotiation calls. What emerges is a big bold look at a little-known crime story.” The SyndicateForbes“Walker’s telling of the story is impeccable, and his commitment to it is made crystal clear when he visits Joe for an interview and ends up doing a tandem skydive with the syndicates former go’fer.”