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As podcast analytics get better, who wins and who loses? – Recode clockmore-arrow Apple is going to start sharing more data about podcasts with their creators. Hot Pod’s Nick Quah breaks down what that means on Recode Media. Read More.

New York Times Who Has the Right to Make Barbecue?New York TimesAfter slavery, as black Americans began to migrate away from the South, barbecue traveled with them and began to evolve regionally. We both live in Brooklyn, where … 1. Open your podcast app. It’s a preloaded app called “Podcasts” with a purple icon. Read…

SYFY WIRE (blog) Objects in Space 7/5: On Wednesdays we wear blackSYFY WIRE (blog)Remember: If you want to send us any suggestions for articles/art/podcasts or something genre-related you’d like us to highlight, you can leave it in the comments below or tweet it to us at @Syfyfangrrls. (You should be following us on Twitter anyway…

For much of her adult Christian life, Christina Edmondson has felt like “a unicorn”: At any given time, she told me, she might be the only black woman present at a professional meeting or worship session. She and her husband live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she works as a dean at Calvin College, a…

Netflix is making more mediocre dramas than ever, and its best series aren’t as good as they used to be. When Netflix started taking its originals game seriously — a.k.a. when it started commissioning productions by itself — the surging streaming service quickly earned a prestigious reputation. On the backs of “House of Cards” and…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9LeM1Ohmuw?rel=0] NPR’s Skunk Bear YouTube Take a basic firework — a mortar shell shot up into the air during Fourth of July displays. The explosive black powder in that firework contains almost the exact same amount of energy as a simple hot dog. The firework uses the energy in black powder to fill the…

Plenty of media companies are grappling with how to recruit and maintain diverse talent. But how many of them are openly discussing their own pitfalls on the air? Gimlet Media is. On Friday, the narrative audio company released an Ask Me Anything-type episode of StartUp, a podcast about what it’s like to get a business…

Plenty of media companies are grappling with how to recruit and maintain diverse talent. But how many of them are openly discussing their own pitfalls on the air? Gimlet Media is. On Friday, the narrative audio company released an Ask Me Anything-type episode of StartUp, a podcast about what it’s like to get a business…

Coming in the wake of “Lemonade,” an ambitious multimedia project that was simultaneously Beyoncé’s most personal and most political work to date, “4:44” finds Jay-Z in a similar mode, weaving confessional and autobiographical songwriting with big-picture perspectives on black life in the United States. The opening track, “Kill Jay-Z,” sets the tone, explicitly addressing the…

Author Don Winslow.Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Listen to Episode 775 of Slate’s The Gist: Crime writer Don Winslow says writing a novel about cops and cartels involves some pretty serious research. “In researching these books,” says Winslow, “I meet people. I’ve been to the funerals, talked to the cops. I’ve made the sympathy calls!” His newest…