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As the 21st century’s first new mass media format, the podcast has become very popular, very quickly. Last year, more than 98 million Americans tuned into one or more podcasts, according to a survey from Edison Research. Sometimes referred to as the Netflix of Radio, podcasts provide on-demand programming on any subject you might be…

“The Lovely Bones,” by Alice Sebold “The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion SUPPORT FOR GRIEVING SIBLINGS The Dougy Center The Compassionate Friends Bereaved Parents of the USA New episodes of “Dear Sugars” are released weekly. You can also read the Sugars’ advice in their Styles column, The Sweet Spot. Do you have a…

Ecstatic truth, or outright deception?Radiotopia In October of 1981, a boy named Bobby Feldstein disappeared from his home in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. As he would tell it later, earlier in the day, he’d been playing a mysterious video game at Coin Kingdom, a dodgy arcade in the city, and as he got deeper…

Last night’s episode of Riverdale was one for the ages, as Betty’s “Lollipop” plagued phone rang off the hook with The Black Hood’s increasingly unreasonable demands. Alice was outed as a bad girl! Cheryl got roofied! And Jughead both ran The Gauntlet and got a bad tattoo! And that’s not even everything that happened. Bughead!…

And yet that’s the pitch behind the podcast Outside The Box, which, created with the creative agency Omelet, looks at business issues like sustainability, American manufacturing, the workforce of the future, and more through a collection of entrepreneurs, innovators, and thought leaders. Senior Walmart staffers are seamlessly woven in among them. The podcast recently wrapped…

A slip of the tongue Jonathan Greening will never forget, bare bums, incurring the wrath of Gary Megson and the player with such poor eyesight he was a target for poker sharks are among the favourite West Brom memories for Andy Johnson. Johnson, who will be loved by a generation of Albion fans for his…

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 139, published November 7, 2017. Charla de Cóctel. Slate Podcasts is now bilingual. Last week, the network leveraged…

People who subscribe to dozens of podcasts may forget that there is indeed a podcast learning curve. For people who’ve never listened to podcasts before, the technology may feel like enough of a hurdle to to induce them to skip them all together. Meanwhile, those who do subscribe to a lot of podcasts know how…

Launching a podcast these days is easy; getting a critical mass of people interested in and loyal to your show is far more difficult. Kaizar Campwala, general manager of audio at Al Jazeera, is well aware of this reality, which is why Jetty, the organization’s new podcast network launched this morning, is putting both audience…

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 138, published October 31, 2017. Happy Halloween folks! Subscriptions at a personal level. When I wrote about Panoply’s paid…