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Pesca — and his opinions — find forum in Slate podcast
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Mike Pesca has the next hit public radio show, and it’s not on public radio. That’s a problem.
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Tuesday roundup: Nycklemoe out at KPLU; Cohen retiring from PRPD presidency
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Plus: A columnist sounds off on Slate’s pubmedia-esque membership program, and NPR unearths its Internet beginnings.
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Thursday roundup: Slate plans for Pesca, Oxford burns PBS, ProPublica sells data
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Two NPR alums are gunning for the afternoon listening sweet spot.
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Afternoon roundup: Slate snaps up NPR’s Pesca; nonprofits join push to block KMBH sale
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• NPR sports reporter Mike Pesca is leaving the network to host a daily current-events podcast for Slate, Business Insider reports. The show will begin this April. Pesca has co-hosted Slate’s sports podcast, “Hang Up And Listen,” since 2009. He tells BI he will have more license to share personal opinions as a podcast host, something he couldn’t do as an NPR reporter. Slate earns upwards of 10 percent of its total advertising revenue from podcasts and expects to grow that share in coming months, according to BI.
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WBUR, Slate partner on personal-health podcast
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Boston’s WBUR has joined Slate in producing a six-episode personal-health podcast, The Checkup.
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WNYC premiering podcast-originated ‘Gabfest Radio’ this weekend
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WNYC in New York will launch Gabfest Radio, a one-hour program combining edited versions of two popular podcasts led by editors of online magazine Slate, with two weekend broadcasts. The move is a fast turnaround for WNYC, which first announced the program and collaboration with Slate in a Tuesday press release. Slate’s Political Gabfest, which began in 2005, is hosted by website editor David Plotz, chief political correspondent John Dickerson and senior editor and legal correspondent Emily Bazelon. Its Culture Gabfest, which originated in 2008, is hosted by deputy editor Julia Turner, movie critic Dana Stevens and culture critic at large, Stephen Metcalf. Slate and the Slate Group of online properties are owned by the Washington Post Co.