The Code Switch podcast is celebrating its first anniversary. Chelsea Beck/NPR hide caption toggle caption Chelsea Beck/NPR The Code Switch podcast is celebrating its first anniversary. Chelsea Beck/NPR One year ago, Barack Obama was winding down his final term and Donald Trump was … a candidate for president? Muhammad Ali, Juan Gabriel and Philando Castile…
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To listen to the discussion, use the player below: On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Jacob Weisberg discuss health care, the Supreme Court, and Trump’s war on the media. Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show: Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: Emily: The book…
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Intro from Jay Allison: Transom is happy to feature another video from our friend and former student, the tall Canadian Andrew Norton. This one is about The Creative Mysteries. It’s full of voices—including some radio storytellers, along with David Lynch, Chuck Close, Susan Orlean, my 7-year-old son, and others. The video poses the question of…
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The ever-growing glut of TV, movies, books, music, comics, and podcasts can be a lot to keep up with. So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include a new Hamilton music video, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and a nifty webcomics archive — have a few suggestions for how to make the best…
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A Dispatch from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies audio director John Biewen launched our Scene on Radio podcast in 2015 with the goal of “exploring human experience and the society we’re making for ourselves in America.” It’s not easy to stand out and get noticed in the…
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Slate Magazine The Represent Rose: Part 2Slate MagazineIn our latest Bachelorette recap, we discuss the feud between Lee and Kenny, check in on the Bachelor in Paradise controversy, and predict who we think will make Rachel’s final four. By Robin M. Boylorn and Veralyn Williams. 170629_REP_Bachelorette- … Read More.
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Share Tweet Pin Share Tumble Combined comments & shares on social media Podcasts are a little like the party guest who hasn’t known the host forever (that would be print media), but also hasn’t just joined the group (let’s say that guest might be called Shmoo Tube). Podcasts are a bit of a bridge between…
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Vulture The Best Podcasts of 2017 (So Far)VultureThis Minnesota Public Radio podcast was created to track alongside, in semi-real time, the trial of Jeronimo Yanez, the police officer who shot and killed 32-year-old Philando Castile, a black motorist, in a Twin Cities neighborhood in July 2016. (The … Read More.
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New York Times History’s Crucial Role in the Films ‘All Eyez on Me’ and ‘The Beguiled’New York Times“All Eyez on Me” tells the story of Tupac Shakur and how the child of persecuted black revolutionaries became one of the best and most scandal-plagued rappers in history. The movie … You may have to scroll down…
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While podcasting has roots reaching as far back as the pre-World Wide Web 1980s, the medium seemed to first appear in current form in the early 2000s. Despite these relatively recent beginnings, podcasts have since spread worldwide and solidified the format’s position among more ubiquitous modern media. As the word podcast — a portmanteau of…
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