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Another Round is a Buzzfeed podcast co-hosted by Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, with occasional guest hosts. Debuting on March 24, 2015, Another Round has featured interviews with guests like writer and MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as well as segments on topics ranging from race, gender and pop culture to squirrels, mangoes, and jokes. Episodes are uploaded weekly on Tuesdays, and feature a new guest every week.
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Team
Buzzfeed's Tracy Clayton and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's Heben Nigatu host Another Round, with occasional guest hosts sitting in for Nigatu since she joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert around July 2016. Buzzfeed Managing Editor for Mobile News Stacy-Marie Ishmael has been a recurring guest, hosting Stacy's Career Corner.
The podcast is one of five podcasts from BuzzFeed's audio team. Producers have included Jenna Weiss-Berman, Eleanor Kagan, Julia Furlan and Meg Cramer. They are collectively known as the Pod Squad.
Guests
In addition to Coates and Clinton, notable guests have included New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay, writer and comedian Issa Rae, and writer and First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray.
Segments
In addition to interviews and Stacy's Career Corner, recurring segments on Another Round include Drunken Debates, Tracy's Animal Corner, Is This Real Life?, What Had Happened Was, Rapid Fire ("Pew Pew Pew!"), Nichole's Nookie Nook and Tracy's Joke Time, among others.
Accolades
Another Round episodes were rated "Best of 2015" by iTunes, Slate, Vulture, and The Atlantic among others. In 2016, Forbes named Nigatu to its annual 30 Under 30 list, citing her work on "the popular and influential BuzzFeed podcast Another Round...which has monthly listener numbers in the hundreds of thousands." Writing for The Guardian, critic Sasha Frere-Jones described hosts Nigatu and Clayton as "leading American cultural critics."