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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 136, published October 17, 2017. 60dB → Google. Google has acqui-hired the team behind 60dB, the personalized short-form audio app. The…

Our constant curiosity compels us to query. These 13 podcasts ask questions of artists, entertainers, musicians, writers, comedians and politicians, and in the process provide perspective on how and why we create, progress and reflect upon our lives. 1. “Fresh Air” The 30-year-running interview show is host to a daily dose of arts, culture and reflection…

As a tragic for the popular music of the 1960s and 70s, I have never been an easy sell for talk radio or spoken-word journalism. I’d always rather listen to greatest hits and golden memories. Yet I have been unable to resist the allure of the true-crime podcast. It started for me, as for so…

This week Benjamin and Zac catch up on Apple’s recent TV hires and upcoming show plans, reports of Face ID security changes and video hands-on leaks, which iPhone X we plan to pre-order, and a fast-forward to the middle of the night where we discuss how pre-orders went. 9to5Mac’s Happy Hour podcast is available for download on…

Joan Williams speaks with The Post’s Jonathan Capehart during an interview for the “Cape Up” podcast on Oct. 11. (Carol Alderman/The Washington Post) “This is a really poisonous dynamic in this country between white people.” To further my education in the political motivations of the white working-class and their support of President Trump, I read…

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 137, published October 24, 2017. WBUR wades into the daily podcast grind…with sports. So, one of the structural…

As a podcast, Dirty John is a tough listen. Not in the sense that the substance of the story that it’s trying to tell is a difficult one, though it certainly is. I mean that literally: The podcast is a crude construction, and its choices often come to the detriment of the actual narrative it’s…

Two Chicago mothers are planning a community play date in response to an anonymous letter complaining about their black nanny. The unstamped letter was dropped last week in the mailbox of Heather DeJonker’s West Town home, and suggested the nanny was a sign of “rebellion” against President Donald Trump, reported DNA Info. The letter says…

It’s a love story that begins with an autopsy report, a description of a corpse mangled by 13 stab-wounds. Before we learn whose body it is, or how their death came about, we are guided through a harrowing tale of manipulation, deceit and abuse. Dirty John, a new collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and audio…

(Michelle Thompson for The Washington Post) Roy Haber was going to see about a prisoner. It was 1970, and he was driving up Highway 51 through the Yazoo Delta to Parchman Farm: Mississippi’s oldest, biggest and most brutal penitentiary. “I was going to this prison that was infamous,” Haber said. “And, you know, I was basically a…