In PRI’s Studio 360, Slate gets its first podcast that’s also a big public radio broadcast

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday.

Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 125, published June 27, 2017.

Just announced: PRI’s Studio 360 is moving to Slate. Wait, what? According to the press release that dropped into my inbox this morning, PRI has formed a new partnership with Slate that will see the digital magazine take on Studio 360, the culture show hosted by Kurt Andersen (he of Spy magazine fame), where it will try to expand the program’s podcast development and digital distribution. As part of this new partnership, Studio 360 is physically moving its staff into Slate’s offices in downtown Brooklyn. The show was previously co-produced by PRI and WNYC, and it will still be distributed through 214 public radio stations across the country — including WNYC — where it reportedly reaches about 600,000 weekly radio…

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