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Daily podcasts an unlikely path to freedom for California inmate

Earlonne Woods shows recording equipment similar to what he used in San Quentin State Prison to produce his podcasts. “Ear Hustle” launched in 2017. Its roughly 30 episodes have been downloaded a total of 20 million times by fans all over the world. Picture: Ben Margot/AP California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne Woods’ 31-years-to-life sentence…

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Rami Malek to Star in Thriller Podcast ‘Blackout’ (Exclusive)

TECH 9:00 AM PST 12/18/2018 by Natalie Jarvey The ‘Mr. Robot’ star also will produce the show, which comes from creator Scott Conroy. Rami Malek will lend his voice to a new thriller podcast from Endeavor Audio.  The Mr. Robot actor will star in and produce Blackout, an eight-episode suspense story about a small-town radio…

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Ex-inmate to keep making podcast that helped him win freedom

Earlonne Woods shows recording equipment similar to what he used in San Quentin State Prison to produce his podcasts, during an interview in Oakland. Woods, 47, was recently released from prison after California Gov. Jerry Brown commuted his 31-years-to-life sentence for attempted armed robbery. Photo: Ben Margot, Associated Press In California, inmates typically are granted…

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Advancing women’s leadership around the world

In this episode, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, founder of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership and distinguished fellow with the Center for Universal Education (CUE), and CUE Fellow Christina Kwauk discuss the current state of gender equality in leadership roles, the pipeline from quality education for girls to increased opportunities for women in leadership, and expanding the evidence on…

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Spotify, Amy Schumer Offer Podcast as Audience Grows

This is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. Video killed the radio star, or so goes the famous Buggles tune. Maybe a more current update would ask if podcasts will kill what’s left of radio. It…

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Podcast Goes Inside Cleveland, Ohio Courthouse – Rolling Stone

The first season of Serial, the explosively popular podcast from host Sarah Koenig and co-creator Julie Snyder, told the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee, the 18-year-old high school student murdered and left in the woods of Maryland. Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life plus 30…

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“Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace

Many New Englanders who listened to public radio in the late twentieth century fondly remember the patient, gently eccentric classical-music show “Morning Pro Musica,” from WGBH. Its host, Robert J. Lurtsema, was affectionately known in many households as “Robert J.” The show was not too harsh, not too loud, not too fast. Lurtsema spoke in…

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Kyle Meredith With… Pedro the Lion | Podcasts

Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS This Friday on Kyle Meredith With…, Kyle Meredith interviews David Bazan of Pedro the Lion, who explains why he resurrected the name “Pedro the Lion” and what led to his new project, a concept series of five albums focused on different cities he has lived in throughout his life….

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Homecoming’s success could show the way ahead for other podcast-to-screen adaptations- Entertainment News, Firstpost

(This article contains some spoilers for the Homecoming TV series.) After books and plays, folklore and fables, operas and ballads, graphic novels, comics and video games, perhaps it was only natural that the movie and television business would turn its eye towards yet another source of stories: podcasts. While there has been the odd adaptation…

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The best podcasts (and podcast episodes) of 2018 — Quartzy

Have you been holding on to a loose button that belongs to a shirt you love, but haven’t worn for six months because it’s… missing a button? Have you wanted to reorganize your closet, or bookshelf, or medicine cabinet, but keep putting it off because it’s just so boring? I have a life hack for…

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