Biography

Media innovator with over 20 years of senior leadership (WAVLAND, Imperative Entertainment, WWE, Discovery, HowStuffWorks) and start-ups (Echo, Tout).

Let me tell you a story.

Awards and Recognition:

Apple Podcasts 'Best of 2021' + 'Best of 2022'

Top Subscriptions, Imperative Entertainment

Webby Awards:

Boomtown, Honoree, 2021

In the Red Clay, Honoree, 2021

The Comeback, Nominee, 2022

The Agent, Honoree, 2022

Top New Podcasts:

In the Red Clay, Podtrac 2020

Fox Hunter, Podtrac 2021

Critical Reviews:

The Agent

AirMail: "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."

Boomtown

Podcast 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 Clay

Vulture: "A wild tale of moonshine, murder, and mayhem"

Elizabeth the First

The Toronto Star: 'sumptuously produced'

Operation Morning LIght

Financial Times: "Best Podcasts of 2022"

Bonaparte

Paste Magazine: 'Best Podcasts of 2022'

The Paddlefish Caviar Heist

Financial Times: "A Hollywood thriller begging to be made"

'Best True Crime Podcast' nominee, 2023 Ambies.

Atlanta Monster

Indie Wire: 'Atlanta Monster': The First Blockbuster Podcast of 2018 is a Complex Look at a City Wrestling with Its Past

The Baron of Botox

Vogue: "This New Podcast Takes a Deep Dive Into the Life and Death of Famed Cosmetic Dermatologist Fredric Brandt"

Standoff

Vulture: "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 Syndicate

Forbes: "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."
- IMDb mini biography by: Jason Hoch