Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 175, published August 21, 2018.
Quick note: Hey all! Hot Pod recently added a new writer to the team: Caroline Crampton, who will cover podcasting in the U.K. She’s contributing one story per newsletter for now, and I’ll indicate her work by listing her name in brackets next to the story header. Hopefully that’s not too confusing. Okay, let’s jump in.
Breaking: CNN’s Brian Stelter with a tasty scoop in his great newsletter last night: Madhulika Sikka — former Morning Edition executive producer, PBS public editor, and executive at Mic — has joined The Washington Post as the executive producer of its upcoming “flagship podcast,” which is scheduled to roll out later this year. Sikka will be hiring a team for the production.
Welcome to the Multiverse. Welcome to Night Vale isn’t a stranger to experimenting with the limitations of what a podcast is and how it can deliver its story. I suppose one…
