Marc Smerling is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer, writer, director, cinematographer and founder of truth.media, a television and podcast production company bringing unique visions and voices to investigative stories. Smerling laid the path for the popularity of true crime podcasts when he‌ ‌created‌ Crimetown in 2016 with co-host Zac Stuart-Pontier. It ‌landed‌ ‌atop many ‌2017‌ ‌podcast‌ ‌top-ten‌ ‌lists‌, including ‌‌The‌ ‌New‌ ‌York‌ ‌Times‌‌, ‌and‌ ‌‌The‌ ‌Atlantic‌ ‌Monthly‌.‌ For‌ ‌his‌ ‌collective‌ ‌contributions‌ ‌to‌ ‌the‌ ‌podcast‌ ‌industry,‌ ‌iHeartRadio‌ ‌named‌ ‌Smerling‌ ‌the‌ ‌“Podcast‌ ‌Innovator‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Year”‌ ‌in‌ ‌2019.‌ In an exclusive partnership with Sony Music Entertainment in 2020, he and his team have begun creating a slate of investigative podcasts, including Morally Indefensible, a companion to Smerling’s nonfiction television series, A Wilderness Of Error, produced in partnership with Blumhouse Television for FX Networks.