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Reo Eveleth

American journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ56654834
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Reo Eveleth is an American podcast host, producer, designer, and animator. They helped launch and are a producer of ESPN Films' 30 for 30 podcast series, which was a Grand Award Gold Radio Winner in the narrative/documentary at the 2019 New York Festivals Radio Awards, as well as a Bronze Radio Winner in the sports category. 30 for 30 was also nominated for the 2018 Webby Awards in the features and best series categories. Since 2015, Eveleth has become known for their Flash Forward podcast, receiving an MJ Bear Fellowship in 2016.

Biography

Eveleth graduated with a BSc in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from the University of California San Diego (2010) and went on to earn a masters in Journalism Science (Health and Environmental Reporting) from New York University in 2011.

Eveleth started as a blogger and producer for The Doppler Effect, a weekly science show. They spent five years as the Podcast Editor for Story Collider, a non-profit group dedicated to true, personal stories about science.

In 2013, together with Bora Zivkovic and Ben Lillie, Eveleth co-founded Science Studio, a first-of-its-kind project to collect multimedia stories about science in the manner of annual "year's best" compilations of reported and written stories. From 2015 to 2022, they were a podcast host and producer for Flash Forward, a podcast about possible and not so possible futures.

On the occasion of Eveleth's MJ Bear Fellowship in 2016, the selection committee commented:

"Straddling the bright horizon between science and science fiction, Fast Forward is an engaging and informative podcast about how we live in and imagine the future.

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“Reo Eveleth” enters the record as american journalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eveleth, American and journalist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2018, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eveleth, American and journalist.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56654834. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2018, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Reo Eveleth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.