Yara Shahidi has to navigate complex racial issues both inside and outside the world of Black-ish. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rich Fury/Getty Images Yara Shahidi has to navigate complex racial issues both inside and outside the world of Black-ish. Rich Fury/Getty Images In some ways, Yara Shahidi is a lot like Zoey…
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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 119, published May 9, 2017. S-Town breaks 40 million downloads in its first month. That’s global downloads, by…
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast…
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“Stop hitting yourself… Stop hitting yourself…” That’s the sound of ESPN bullying itself into irrelevance as we’ve now learned that the self-described “worldwide leader in sports” has killed the best thing to come out of its Bristol, Connecticut headquarters in recent years: the TrueHoop network of podcasts. The news that the podcasts will shut down…
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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 118, published May 2, 2017. Gretta Cohn officially launches her new podcast studio. About two months after announcing her…
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As podcasting’s profile has increased and budgets have got bigger, the medium is progressively becoming dominated by flashy new shows that arrive in seasons, and come and go at lightning speed. It’s all very exciting and points to a healthy future, of course, but what about the long-running, less flashy podcasts that have been quietly…
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W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for New York Magazine hide caption toggle caption Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for New York Magazine W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for New York Magazine…
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WOODSTOCK, Ala. – Attention is often a hard-won commodity out in the country, and sometimes it’s the last thing a little town wants. Residents puff out their chests when a high school in a rural town upends a big-city rival to win a championship, but they’re just as likely to be deflated by some dash…
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Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Larry Wilmore has been keeping pretty busy since The Nightly Show aired its final episode on Comedy Central last summer, between helping co-create HBO’s Insecure with Issa Rae and serving as the executive producer on the ABC sitcom Black-ish, but the comedian announced Tuesday that he’s adding another project to his…
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