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 239, dated December 17, 2019.
Hello everyone. Welcome to the last Hot Pod of 2019. We made it to the end of the year! Frankly, I’m a little surprised. Given everything that’s happened, I thought my brain would’ve melted into a puddle of goo, Bon Benson-style, by now. (Spoilers, I guess.) But my noggin’ is very much not goo, even though it hurts all the time. I’ll take it. Anyway, Caroline and I wrote Year in Review columns to close out the calendar, but there was a good deal of action late last week, so we’re going to start out by hitting some headlines first. Let’s go.
Tracking.
- On Thursday, PRX announced that it will soon be launching a podcast network focused on listeners between the ages of 9 and 13. (I believe they’re called tweens, but one…
