Raju Mudhar
Raju Mudhar combines audio storytelling and reported coverage of driving and daily life, using deep-dive conversations and data to show how decisions about roads, enforcement and policy play out for people behind the wheel. At the Star, he works as a producer and co-host of the daily news podcast This Matters, while also reporting on issues such as traffic enforcement and road safety. His background in entertainment and technology coverage shapes an accessible style that treats cars, streets and systems as part of a wider culture, not a standalone niche.
Traffic enforcement and street-level safety
Mudhar’s recent reporting includes a close look at Parkside Drive, where he documents how speeding surged after automated cameras were removed, quantifying a 235 per cent jump in speeders over six months and tying it directly to changes in enforcement on that stretch of road. He uses that kind of street-level case study to show how drivers respond when the rules on a familiar route change, grounding broader debates about road safety in specific locations, time frames and numbers. The focus stays on how policy choices translate into behaviour behind the wheel, which makes his coverage useful when the story involves data, local streets, and the human impact of enforcement decisions rather than vehicle technology alone.
Deep-dive news podcasting
Alongside his reporting, Mudhar is a producer and co-host of This Matters, the Star’s weekday deep-dive news podcast. The show takes one issue per episode and unpacks it through an extended conversation, an approach described as pairing a “curious person” with a “smart person” to explore the story in depth.
Episodes he works on range from questions of citizenship in “Bill C-3 and who qualifies as Canadian” to organized crime in “Olympian Kingpin: The Hunt for Ryan Wedding” and extremist movements in “They threatened Pierre Poilievre’s wife.
What is Diagolon?”. His production and hosting role on these pieces means he is used to shaping narratives that move from explanation of a system or law to its consequences for people, which carries over when the subject touches transportation, regulation or public safety.
The tone of the podcast is conversational but focused, and his experience in this format makes him attuned to stories that can sustain a detailed, interview-driven treatment rather than a brief news hit.
Technology, games and offbeat consumer culture
Before his current audio role, Mudhar reported for the Star’s entertainment section, covering breaking news across television, music and video games. That work included appearing on the video-game television series Electric Playground and in the special Gamers Heart Japan as a Star journalist, reflecting a long-standing engagement with gaming and pop culture. He has also taken on offbeat consumer-tech assignments, such as testing flatulence-filtering “Shreddies” underwear in his capacity as a tech reporter, treating the product as a story about claims, design and everyday use rather than just novelty.
This strand of his career shows a comfort with stories that sit at the edge of technology, lifestyle and humour, and it feeds into an ability to frame automotive and road stories within broader questions about design, user experience and how people actually live with products and infrastructure.
Audio storytelling and craft focus
Mudhar’s current work centres on audio: he produces episodes of the Star’s podcasts and teaches podcasting in a college journalism program, reinforcing his focus on narrative structure and sound as tools for reporting.
Behind the scenes, he is regularly credited as a producer on This Matters episodes, a role that involves shaping interview flows, scripting introductions and ensuring the story holds together across its runtime. His teaching work in advanced audio and video production means he approaches subjects with attention to pacing, clarity and how a listener will follow complex issues over time.
For automotive and road stories, this makes him a fit for material that lends itself to being broken into clear, sequenced beats - policy, data, lived experience - and then rebuilt into a narrative that works as both a reported article and a podcast segment.
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