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 132, published August 15, 2017.
Another daily news podcast TK. Got this email yesterday:
Vox Media and Midroll just inked a deal to launch a daily news podcast under the news brand Vox banner. The show will have a full time staff of 6 working inside the Vox newsroom. Midroll is providing creative consultation and is the exclusive advertising partner for the show. The two companies have launched an ambitious talent search to find the right up-and-coming audio talent to host and EP the show, which is targeted to launch in early 2018.
The show, whatever it will be named, will join The New York Times’ The Daily, NPR’s Up First, and The Outline’s World Dispatch as high-profile entries in the podcast-first daily news genre.
Podcast Central. Yesterday, the New York…
