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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…

More people than ever are listening to podcasts, but as they soon find out, discovering new ones is a cumbersome process that lacks the serendipity users take for granted in other apps. CastBox wants to fix that by becoming “the YouTube of audio.” The podcast player for iOS and Android, which has raised $16 million in…

Crooked Media, the progressive political podcast network run by former Obama administration staffers whose flagship show Pod Save America has been downloaded more than 100 million times since January, is branching out into text. On Wednesday, the L.A.-based company announced the launch of Crooked.com, a website whose editor-in-chief is Brian Beutler, formerly a senior editor…

iStock There’s some internet rule that goes along the lines of “If you think it, it exists on the internet.” Maybe I’m confusing it with Rule 34 (If you think it, there’s porn of it). But ultimately, I’ve always thought of the internet as a haven for the congregating of niche and segmented voices and…

Photo Rashida Jones as Santamonica, the sister of Tracee Ellis Ross’s character on ABC’s “Black-ish.” Credit Kelsey McNeal/Getty Images For months, the two of us have been trying to figure out a way to have a conversation about the experience of being biracial. This week we just go for it. First, we talk about the…

A cowboy hat lays in the street after shots were fired near a country music festival on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Becker/Getty Images A cowboy hat lays in the street after shots were fired near a country music festival on October 1, 2017 in…

Seth Mann.Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Seth Mann. This is a transcript of the Sept. 17 edition of Working. These transcripts are lightly edited and may contain errors. For the definitive record, consult the podcast. Jacob Brogan: You’re listening to Working, the podcast for what people do all day. I’m Jacob Brogan. This season,…

Readers listen, but not in exactly the same way as they read. With a book, you hear the voices of the author and their characters, distinct and loud in the chamber of your own head. It is different when you listen to stories told by someone — the nightlong cycles of “kathas” narrated by expert…

Today on “Consumer News” we talked about Fargo Police looking for 2 guys who are going door to door selling cleaning products, and it’s looks like tv’s will be the hottest Black Friday buy. (Listen to Bonnie and Doug every Monday through Friday from 5-8am on the “KFGO Morning Crew” and be part of our…

“We are blackness’s biggest fans,” Brittany Luse says in the trailer for the Gimlet podcast “The Nod,” co-hosted by Eric Eddings, which débuted in June. “And on this show we’re going to explore the stories about blackness that you don’t often hear.” This is followed by clips of such stories: Eddings asking a bodega clerk…