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How Charlie Brooker went from columnist to screenwriter

How do films make you feel? The Independent gets personal about cinema and TV with actors, directors, cinematographers and other people from the continually evolving world of “content” in a new fortnightly podcast hosted by Culture Editor Christopher Hooton. Only a few years ago, Charlie Brooker was a columnist dipping his toe into the scripted…

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Top 10 Podcasts

  ‘Blanguage’: Co-hosts, Janelle and Daniel are best friends and Black Londoners who discuss music and Black British culture. They’re fun to listen to because of their friendship, and their black British perspective is much needed in the podcast landscape. ‘The Bugle’: ‘The Bugle’ was created 10 years ago, and was originally hosted by Andy…

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Manoush Zomorodi – Think Again – a Big Think Podcast #127 – The Upside of Downtime

    Subscribe on Google Play, Stitcher, or iTunes Come talk to us on Twitter: @bigthinkagain When was the last time you were bored? I mean really, well and truly, staring at the patterns in the wallpaper bored?  Statistics suggest that you’re probably listening to this show on a smartphone. Which means you own a smartphone. Which means it’s probably always…

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The Breakthrough: A Reporter Goes to Ground Zero for Today’s American HIV Epidemic — ProPublica

A few years ago, freelance journalist Linda Villarosa thought she was done covering HIV. She had accomplished plenty — front page stories for The New York Times, articles in Essence magazine. She started in the 1980s when there was little hope for those who had contracted the disease, but now, with the advent of antiretroviral…

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Europe’s chief regulator Margrethe Vestager on reining in tech: ‘This is the biggest wake-up call we’ve ever had’

When Margrethe Vestager last appeared on our Recode Decode podcast, in September 2016, she had already made a name for herself as Europe’s commissioner for competition, launching an antitrust case against Google and an investigation into how Apple pays taxes. But now, as it becomes clearer how those companies were used to manipulate the 2016…

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Stream Gettin Grown Podcast’s ‘Guide To Gift Giving’

Jade and Keia are in high spirits in this week’s episode of Gettin’ Grown, titled Gettin Grown’s Guide To Gift Giving. Thanksgiving has come and gone but the Christmas holidays will soon be upon us. The pair build on the concept of meaningful gift giving. They also chop it up about of the best and…

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If your favorite podcast gets a new host, is it still your favorite podcast?

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 142, published November 28, 2017. Longest Shortest Why. Andrea Silenzi, creator of Panoply cult favorite Why Oh Why,…

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Conversations with a Podcaster: Andrew Cope

NICKI PADAR / AGGIE An article about podcasts, interviewing a podcaster who podcasts Andrew Cope, a fourth-year computer science major and co-host of podcast “How Do You Feel About That?,” loves podcasts. It comes as no surprise, then, that one of his episodes is about — you guessed it — podcasts. That episode alone has…

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Overcast Podcast App Gains New

Popular third-party iOS podcast app Overcast reached version 4.0.1 on Thursday, bringing some much-requested features including a new true-black dark theme and sleep timer option. New Black dark theme compared to Light theme with System font option enabled The new Black theme, shown above, joins the existing Light and Dark themes, and has been designed…

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Black Friday – Ricochet

Ricochet.com Ep. 379: Black FridayRicochet.comNo one interrupting, no one going on and on with self-indulgent monologues, no annoying verbal ticks, no one grandstanding and taking up 50% of the podcast just to hear himself talk. Just two intelligent and witty guys throwing the conversational ball … Read More.

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