Let’s Make a Podcast!

Podcast Asheville produces original podcasts and helps organizations conceive, strategize & produce their own innovative shows.

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Matt is a multiple award-winning print and broadcast journalist and the founder of Podcast Asheville.

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Matt Peiken

Wake Up, Asheville!

Matt hosts and produces a daily, hyperlocal newscast podcast curated from stories across the Asheville-area news media landscape.

New episodes post 5am Monday-Friday.

The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Matt produced and hosted 189 episodes of The Overlook with Matt Peiken from Feb. 2023 through Sept. 2024.

In this show about all things Asheville, Matt interviewed elected officials, civic leaders and directors of social-service nonprofits, along with artists, other local journalists and assorted newsmakers.

Readers of the city’s alt-weekly newspaper voted The Overlook the region’s best podcast in 2023 & 2024.

Matt brings deep experience in every facet of podcast production—formatting, scripting, voicing, editing, brainstorming and problem-solving.

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