Inside the Daily Press

About Inside the Daily Press

A DEVELOPING STORY is a narrative podcast series from Santa Monica Daily Press. In each episode, award-winning filmmaker and journalist Brian Peter Falk explores housing development in Santa Monica one story at a time and tries to figure out what those stories tell us about the future – and ourselves. This is a local series with national resonance, fueled by the reporting of Santa Monica Daily Press, Santa Monica's most trusted news source. Restaurant reviews, fine arts, and just about everything you need to be informed on the Westside of LA. Subscribe!

Publisher

Santa Monica Daily Press

Category

news · news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Aug 2019

Latest episode

21 May 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 260 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sam Stein - the Bulwark

   Host Ross talks with Sam Stein, managing editor of The Bulwark, about the Bulwark's community, the rise of live shows, and the evolving news business.

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   20 Nov 2025

   A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 6: THE CRYSTAL BALL

   As California's current high-speed rail fiasco attests, big and ambitious public projects are hard. California's biggest project of all is housing development. Will it suffer the same fate? In this final episode, Brian explores the impediments to success, including the increasingly caustic "backyard brawl" between NIMBYS and YIMBYS, and asks his guests to pitch their versions of a successful housing future.

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   20 Nov 2025

   A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 5: THREE PROJECTS

   In this episode, Brian examines three housing development projects in Santa Monica – all of which have courted controversy. One is a large development that could replace a beloved grocery store, another is a supportive housing project a block from the city's shopping promenade, and the third is a project that was killed by community activism, with unintended consequences.

Inside a recent episode

Sam Stein - the Bulwark

Published 21 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And we just published this in like very massive piece from the digital director for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's campaign about that stuff. But the way we consume media these days is actually incredibly different from even a year ago. And now everything's done on short form videos that are clipped from larger videos. And so, you know, you're talking about like things that are under two minutes that. Right. And you've got to capture them in three seconds. Right. Or else they're going to swipe to the next video. And so as people start thinking about political organizing and political media on the internet, it's unclear if you just need, you know, big cultural icons to be sort of the people who are disseminating the stuff. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

46 ratings

Spotify

2.8 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

75

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