L.A. World
L.A. World is a new weekly podcast that cuts through the noise to help you understand everything you need to know about what's happening in Los Angeles.
Every episode, hosts Hayes Davenport, Julia Turner and Antonia Cereijido team up with the newsroom at L.A. Material, to walk you through the top L.A. stories you should be tracking, and deep dive into whatever's dominating the headlines.
Featured Episode
Meet the hosts
Antonia CereijidoBefore joining L.A. Material, Antonia was the host of LAist’s Imperfect Paradise, where she covered the Palisades and Eaton fires, L.A.’s historic protests against ICE, and more, including the L.A. City Council tape scandal, for which she was a finalist for the Livingston Awards. Before that, she was a producer at Futuro Media, working across award-winning audio programs, including NPR’s Latino USA and Anything for Selena. Her audio work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Hayes DavenportHayes has been a writer/producer for TV shows like Family Guy and Eastbound & Down and has hosted the comedy podcast Hollywood Handbook for more than a decade. He also co-founded a neighborhood homeless services nonprofit and served for three years in L.A. City Hall as a senior advisor to Councilmember Nithya Raman. (Hayes is not involved in L.A. Material’s coverage of Raman or the mayoral race she is currently competing in, and no longer does political work.)
Julia TurnerJulia has been leading newsrooms for nearly twenty years. At Slate, she served as editor-in-chief and helped turn the magazine into a podcast and membership powerhouse. Then she helped steer entertainment coverage, digital strategy and business bets for the Los Angeles Times. The teams she’s guided have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award, National Magazine Awards and Online Journalism Awards, and she serves on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. She is prone to interrupt conversations to point out interesting birds nearby.