On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. On the new podcast, you’ll hear four interviews with TED Fellows, up-and-coming innovators in science and technology who give talks about their work on the…
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Photo: Courtesy of A’shanti F. Gholar Mainstream media have provided few spaces for black women to discuss politics, but A’shanti F. Gholar is joining a growing group of women of color podcasters who hope to provide more such spaces, with her new podcast The Brown Girls Guide To Politics. Her first episode opened with Stacey…
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The podcast wars are coming. After Luminary’s troubled launch, The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Ashley Carman sit down with podcast expert Nick Quah of Hot Pod to discuss if Luminary or anyone could be “the Netflix of podcasts” and where the industry is headed. You can listen to the discussion in its entirety on The…
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Since I’ve started listening to podcasts in 2015, the landscape has grown exponentially. There are more than 700,000 podcasts, according to Podcast Insights, an online resource for podcasters. They cover everything from politics and history to spirituality and religion, the arts, pop culture, and social justice issues—climate, the environment, and race. As the number of…
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On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Kara passed the mic to her executive producer Erica Anderson, who recently attended the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. On the new podcast, you’ll hear four interviews with TED Fellows, up-and-coming innovators in science and technology who give talks about their work on the…
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Segment 1: Actor Jason Mitchell stops by to make his second appearance on the BGNPodcast to chat about his latest film The Mustang. Released by Focus Features on March 15th. Hosted by: Cheryl Collins Segment 2: Jonita Davis and Ricardo Hazell start their new show “Snowflake and the Cynic Ruin the Movies Podcast” and makes…
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Podcasts are, as you’ve likely heard a few times already, having a bit of a moment. As an insatiable podcast junkie, here are some of my favourites. My main podcast app – I use three of them, don’t ask – suggests that I’ve listened to an almost unbelievable 217 days of podcasts since the 5…
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The Peabody Board of Jurors has revealed its 2019 winners in the News and Radio/Podcast categories, rounding out the Peabody 30 for programs released in 2018. Honorees represent investigative reporting with far-reaching impact, from local news reports on faulty drug tests to international reporting using innovative forensic technology to solve the murders of women and…
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Oct 11, 2018 by Sven Gustafson Friends! We have nearly made it to the weekend, and (temporary) salvation is nigh. Here’s the rundown of what you’ll find on the Daily Detroit podcast recorded on Thursday, Oct. 11: Newly released surveillance video contradicts the claims of a white, former Detroit Fire Department lieutenant that he tripped…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 206, published April 30, 2019. Luminary, seven days in. It’s been a full week since Luminary officially rolled out into the marketplace, and what a maelstrom it’s been. I’m sure many of you have been following the incremental updates as they spilled out into…
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