Stories, told by people.
Video, podcasts, nonprofit films, and branding — made by humans who came up in newsrooms, and shipped on a newsroom clock.
Wayfarer Podcast Studio
From empty room to on air.
The Studio
Use our studio — or let us build yours.
We produce in our own broadcast-quality studio in Chicago. And when a partner wants that capability in-house, we design and build it for them — held to the same standard we shoot on every day.
Inside our studio
Live switching & streaming
Multi-cam record with simultaneous stream output.
3-camera production
Wide, close-up & profile angles, captured simultaneously.
Pro lighting & audio
Acoustically treated room, broadcast-quality sound.
Remote guests
See your guest live, mixed cleanly into your studio feed.
Shoot once, cut many
One session becomes a full library of content.
Where Richard Roeper records
Home of The Movie of Your Life.
Studio consulting & build-outs
Prefer your own room? We build studios, too.
From first sketch to first shoot — room design, acoustic treatment, camera and switching systems, lighting and audio. We spec it, install it, and hand you a space that's ready to roll.
Availability is limited — we take on a handful of build projects at a time.
Why Wayfarer
Newsroom instincts. Studio polish.
We were trained where the clock never stops — to find the story fast, tell it cleanly, and deliver before the deadline. You get that speed, without giving up craft.
Newsroom-fast.
We move on real deadlines. Turnarounds measured in days, not quarters — because we've never known it any other way.
Human-led.
Real videography and photography come first. We actively explore new AI tools where they serve the story — but every project is shaped, judged, and finished by a person. The point of view is always ours.
Broadcast-grade.
The lighting, the sound, the edit — held to the standard we learned on air. It looks and sounds like it was made to matter.
You're in good company
What we make
Four crafts. One story at the center.
However people find your story — on a screen, in their ears, or in a search — the work is the same: tell it true, make them feel it, and make sure it gets found.
