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In the still air of a soundproof studio in central North Carolina, veteran journalist Phoebe Judge is messing with the time-space continuum. Well, telephonically speaking. Judge is sitting in the dimly lit studios of WUNC in Chapel Hill. She’s interviewing David Brown, author and former police chief of Dallas, for an upcoming episode of “Criminal,”…

One of the most common gripes about Apple among podcasters, particularly those with smaller audiences, is that the company hasn’t done enough to solve the industry’s discovery problem. While podcast listening continues to climb, it does so unevenly: Apple’s top podcasts charts are perpetually dominated by a shuffling, but largely identical, list of shows, all…

As podcast analytics get better, who wins and who loses? – Recode clockmore-arrow Apple is going to start sharing more data about podcasts with their creators. Hot Pod’s Nick Quah breaks down what that means on Recode Media. Read More.

New York Times Who Has the Right to Make Barbecue?New York TimesAfter slavery, as black Americans began to migrate away from the South, barbecue traveled with them and began to evolve regionally. We both live in Brooklyn, where … 1. Open your podcast app. It’s a preloaded app called “Podcasts” with a purple icon. Read…

SYFY WIRE (blog) Objects in Space 7/5: On Wednesdays we wear blackSYFY WIRE (blog)Remember: If you want to send us any suggestions for articles/art/podcasts or something genre-related you’d like us to highlight, you can leave it in the comments below or tweet it to us at @Syfyfangrrls. (You should be following us on Twitter anyway…

For much of her adult Christian life, Christina Edmondson has felt like “a unicorn”: At any given time, she told me, she might be the only black woman present at a professional meeting or worship session. She and her husband live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she works as a dean at Calvin College, a…