Photo illustration by Slate. Image by Apple. I’m not a knee-jerk tech-tweak hater. You know the type: Ugggh, Twitter replaced the favorite button with the like! Twitter is ruined! It was the like button, guys, not the neo-Nazis. Mike Pesca is the host of the Slate daily podcast The Gist. He also contributes reports and commentary to…
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The last time Carvell Wallace visited McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, Bill Clinton was president, people used fax machines, and you still printed out driving directions from MapQuest. During his visit, Wallace saw that his once-thriving hometown had been hollowed out, like many other Rust Belt towns, by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs. It…
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The Business of Fashion The BoF Podcast Episode 17: Race, Inequality and Privilege: Why Is It a Problem Worth Solving?The Business of FashionAmerican civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson and British television personality June Sarpong discuss racial injustice in the wider world. 4 Shares. Comment. By BoF Team December 6, 2017 05:25. Save. DeRay Mckesson, an…
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Guys We Fucked hosts Corinne Fisher (L) and Krystyna Hutchinson. Photo by Dee Guerreros. In the US, medically-accurate sex ed is only required in 13 states, and the concept of sexual pleasure is seldom taught in schools in a positive light, according to a 2013 study from the journal Sex Education. So, it’s unsurprising that many…
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Listen to Hang Up and Listen with Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: In this week’s episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen Stefan Fatsis talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN and Jeremy Stahl of Slate about a rift among NFL players over the league’s…
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Download Podcast Jon Miller and Rob Howe recap Iowa v Nebraska and the 2017 season, plus a hard look at the start of the Iowa basketball season, and some problems that may linger all year. Related In HawkeyeNation Forums Subscribe on iTunes !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′;n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,’script’,’//connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘1700178196887806’); fbq(‘track’, “PageView”);(function(d, s, id) { var…
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Local news: It’s how people are informed about what’s happening in their communities, it’s what gets them to care about their communities, and it’s what gets local governments in turn to care for the communities they represent. When accountability journalism disintegrates at the local level, all of this topples, and the consequences of a news…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 143, published December 5, 2017. Here’s something you need to know: I’ve learned that Apple has acquired Pop Up Archive, the Oakland-based online platform focused on building tools to transcribe, organize, and search audio files. Among its suite of tools was the podcast search…
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At the end of 2016, Irish poker pros Dara O’Kearney and David Lappin were approached by Unibet Poker — currently one the game’s fastest growing online poker rooms — to become ambassadors for the brand. A big part of these players’ appeal was their show The Chip Race, a poker podcast that more resembles a…
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The task of media interviewers is get to know and understand their subjects in a brief amount of time. Usually, the first 20 minutes will cover the talking points of their latest project. But, if an interviewer is lucky enough to speak longer, there is a certain magic that happens. The questioner loosens up, the…
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