Micah Loewinger is a reporter for On the Media, where he focuses on internet culture, politics, and the far-right.
His investigation into Zello, a walkie-talkie app used for recruitment and organizing by militia groups, won the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting. His piece on a Syrian refugee camp in a Swedish Wild West theme park was a finalist for a Livingston Award for international reporting.
Before stumbling into a job at OTM, Micah interned for NPR Music, Radiolab, Soundcheck, WNET’s Great Performances, and Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa, the continent’s oldest community-run station. Everything he knows about this medium he learned from the best frickin’ college radio station in the world, WNYU 89.1FM, where he served as Program Director. Catch him as an erratic host of the 60’s-70’s experimental psychedelic radio show, Plastic Tales From the Marshmallow Dimension. Micah likes to cook borscht and scroll through Twitter.
He also loves tips and story ideas from listeners! DM him or send him a message on Signal: (646) 753-2373.
Micah Loewinger appears in the following:
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
Ticketmaster controls seventy percent of ticketing sales.
Monday, June 05, 2023
One reporter had been listening to the online chatter of the militia movement, and heard them fantasizing about violence for over a year.
Friday, June 02, 2023
Uncleared samples barred De La Soul from streaming services for decades.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Tasha Adams on life after Stewart Rhodes.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Anna Sale and Micah Loewinger discuss their interview with Tasha Adams, the ex-wife of Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes.
Friday, May 26, 2023
The government asked Earl Caldwell to become a spy. He took them to the Supreme Court.
Friday, May 26, 2023
When reporting becomes federal evidence; a history of journalists being called to testify; escaping the far right and an abusive marriage.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Tasha Adams reflects on her decades-long marriage with the founder of the Oath Keepers.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Micah Loewinger recorded Oath Keepers storming the Capitol. Then he received a subpoena.
Wednesday, May 03, 2023
When Tasha Adams was escaping from her husband and far-right leader, Stewart Rhodes, she messaged Alex Jones’s ex-wife for support. In this episode, they talk for the first time.
Friday, April 28, 2023
One day in 1997, tens of thousands of racing pigeons never came home.
Friday, April 28, 2023
A real-life spy thriller, with real-life consequences.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Audio forensics and electrical network frequency analysis.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Uncleared samples barred De La Soul from streaming services for decades.
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
A growing anti-antitrust movement is emerging in Washington and Khan has become its main target.
Friday, February 24, 2023
The Supreme Court considers the liability of Big Tech.
Friday, February 03, 2023
Ticketmaster controls seventy percent of ticketing sales.
Friday, February 03, 2023
And why it matters today.
Friday, February 03, 2023
And why it's important to come up with solutions.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Will HBO's latest show break the curse of failed video game adaptations?