Year-End Lists

Shondaland: The Best Podcasts of 2020

• Nice White Parents
• Dr. Death Season 2: Dr. Fata
• Slow Burn: Season 4
• MusicalSplaining
• Code Switch
• You're Wrong About...
• Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment
• The Daily

The New York Times: The Best New Podcasts of 2020

• Wind of Change
• Into the Zone
• Floodlines
• Passenger List
• Appearances
• Octavia's Parables
• Goodbye to All This
• My Year in Mensa

Rolling Stone: Best Podcasts of 2020

• Somebody
• Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen
• Floodlines
• Home Cooking
• Staying In with Emily & Kumail
• Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
• Motive: Season 3
• Unspooled: Season 2
• Nice White Parents
• Borrasca
• Rabbit Hole
• Dead Eyes
• Slow Burn: David Duke
• Wind of Change
• You Must Remember This: Polly Platt
• The Last Archive

Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2020, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Floodlines
2. Lost Notes: 1980
3. My Year in Mensa
4. Nice White Parents
5. Reply All
6. You're Wrong About...
7. Home Cooking
8. You Must Remember This: Polly Platt
9. Appearances
10. Field Recordings

Other 2020 Podcast Highlights

• Articles of Interest: Season 2
• The Cam Chronicles
• Dead Eyes
• Oh, Hello: the P'dcast
• Planet Money
• Reveal: American Rehab
• Staying In with Emily & Kumail
• Slow Burn: Season 4
• Wind of Change
• This is not a Drake podcast
• Welcome to LA

Teen Vogue: Best Podcasts of 2020

• Keep It!
• Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain
• You Must Remember This: Polly Platt
• Code Switch
• Teenager Therapy
• Floodlines
• Criminalia
• Staying In with Emily & Kumail
• Rabbit Hole

Eliana Dockterman: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2021]

1. Nice White Parents
2. Code Switch
3. Staying In with Emily & Kumail
4. You Must Remember This: Polly Platt
5. Outsiders
6. The Daily
7. Floodlines
8. Dead Eyes
9. Home Cooking
10. Back Issue