Year-End Lists

The Globe and Mail: Top 10 Favourite Podcasts of 2022, selected by the hosts and producers of The Globe and Mail's podcasts

• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• Welcome to Paradise
• Shameless Acquisition Target
• Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
• Another Russia
• Maintenance Phase
• Normal Gossip
• Hard Fork
• WorkLife with Adam Grant
• Sweet Bobby

Fiona Sturges: Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Financial Times

[see also 2023]

• Dead Eyes
• Bible John: Creation of a Serial Killer
• This Is Dating
• Invaded: Voicemails from Ukraine
• The Rest Is Politics
• Operation Morning Light
• The Superhero Complex
• From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast
• Case 63
• Mattan: Injustice of a Hanged Man

The Atlantic: The 35 Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. All There Is with Anderson Cooper
2. The Outlaw Ocean
3. Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
4. BEING Trans
4. BEING Golden
5. Bone Valley
6. Wild Boys
7. In Trust
8. Sorry About The Kid
9. The King of Kowloon
10. The Loudest Girl in the World
11. Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
12. This Is Dating
13. The Sum of Us
14. Missed Fortune
15. Mother Country Radicals
16. Articles of Interest: American Ivy
17. The Last Cup
18. Dear Poetry
19. Cover Story: Seed Money
20. We Were Three
21. Normal Gossip
22. Buffy
23. Uncared For
24. Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
25. Women's Work
26. Borderline Salty
27. Not Lost
28. Welcome to Paradise
29. Case 63
30. School Colors
31. Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise
32. Til This Day with Radio Rahim
33. Can I tell you a secret?
34. My Mother Made Me
35. My Unlived Life

Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Rumble Strip
2. The Prince
3. Will Be Wild
4. Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
5. Bone Valley
6. Articles of Interest: American Ivy
7. Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
8. Heavyweight
9. Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
10. Let's Make A Sci-Fi

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by New York Magazine, a poll of over 220 podcast creators, producers, and hosts

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Normal Gossip
2. Shameless Acquisition Target
3. Articles of Interest: American Ivy
4. We Were Three
5. Dead Eyes
6. Bone Valley
7. Welcome to Provincetown
8. If Books Could Kill
9. Mother Country Radicals
10. The Trojan Horse Affair
11. Will Be Wild
12. All There Is with Anderson Cooper
13. Into It with Sam Sanders
14. The Town with Matthew Belloni
15. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

Repeat Winners (see note)

• Maintenance Phase
• Heavyweight

Other Interesting Picks

• Midst
• You Must Remember This: Erotic 80s
• Björk: Sonic Symbolism

Mara Davis: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2023]

• America's Girls
• Bonaparte
• Bone Valley
• Into It with Sam Sanders
• Sweet Bobby
• Sympathy Pains
• Things Fell Apart
• We Were Three
• Wild Boys
• Will Be Wild

Variety: The Best New Podcasts of 2022

• The Sunshine Place
• The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
• HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
• Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy
• Welcome to Provincetown
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• Club Random with Bill Maher
• Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
• Vibe Check
• Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
• Batman Unburied
• Trials To Triumphs
• Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen
• Maejor Frequency
• Normal Gossip
• Teaching Texas
• Kym
• Father Wants Us Dead
• Twin Flames

Lauren Passell: The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022, as published by Lifehacker

[see also 2023]

• Mother Country Radicals
• Bone Valley
• Will Be Wild
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• Wild Boys
• Alabama Astronaut
• Lizzy Cooperman's In Your Hands
• Normal Gossip
• Things Fell Apart
• In The Scenes Behind Plain Sight
• Into the Depths
• Burn Wild
• A Tradition of Violence

Esquire: The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2018]

• Choosing Sides: F1
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain
• The Town with Matthew Belloni
• Armchair Expert
• Call Her Daddy
• The Old Man and the Three with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter
• Modern Love
• Sounds Like A Cult
• State of Ukraine
• Don’t Let This Flop
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
• Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
• Sweet Bobby
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• Black Girl Songbook
• Today, Explained
• The Receipts Podcast
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• The Daily
• Normal Gossip
• The Happiness Lab
• Celebrity Memoir Book Club
• Morbid
• Stuff You Should Know
• Ringer Food
• Against the Rules

Reggie Ugwu: Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021]

• Articles of Interest: American Ivy
• I Was Never There
• Legacy of Speed
• Not Lost
• Pivot
• Reveal: After Ayotzinapa
• Rumble Strip
• Unexplainable
• Vibe Check
• Welcome to Provincetown