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Public media producers are preparing a slew of new and returning podcasts for national audiences.
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Public media producers are preparing a slew of new and returning podcasts for national audiences.
Paul Maassen of WWNO said during a network board meeting that NPR and stations are working on podcasts in a “siloed environment.”
The move will allow Criminal Productions to expand its staff and namesake podcast.
The former basketball star turned ESPN commentator Williams will ask his guests “how they continue to build their own businesses and hustle to the point of their own personal brand … because that’s exactly where I am in my life.”
A narrow challenge to a law banning broadcasts of criminal proceedings may help expand journalists’ ability to cover trials.
The Virginia station teamed up with The Steel Wheels, a locally based Americana band, on “We Made You a Song.”
APM also promoted Thomas De Napoli to chief strategy officer of APM Studios.
The podcast follows months of criticism directed at PBS and public media about the system’s DEI initiatives and lack of transparency.
“It feels good to be employed, it feels better to be in a field that I love, and it feels greater to be working with the people I was doing the work with inside.”
The father-daughter hosts and creators of “You Must Know Everything” found that collaboration and self-promotion can expand the reach of a homegrown project.
After learning they were separately pursuing stories on the pioneering label and its founder, producers Joe Richman and Jad Abumrad decided to share tape and research.
“For small and midsize media organizations, a new focus on podcast excellence may mean getting out of the comprehensive local news business.”
The network will also participate in Apple and Spotify’s podcast subscription initiatives.
“I started thinking about what I wanted to do next and how I can help people in a variety of ways. I had a lot of time wandering the desert to think about it.”
The VPM + ICA Community Media Center is a free and public recording studio and workspace that aims to make creating podcasts more accessible.
With its new Minutes project, the station is making city council meetings more accessible while helping its reporters find stories.
Launched this month, “The Parker Edison Project” gives “complete creative freedom” to a local rapper and journalist.
An Acast executive said RadioPublic “brings even better tools and deep … secret-sauce technology” to the Sweden-based podcast company.
The plan to sell Pocket Casts is in “early stages of development,” according to an NPR spokesperson.
Station leaders and the Public Radio Program Directors Association are questioning the Times’ damage control related to its podcast “Caliphate.”