DeRay Mckesson. Photo by Daniel Stewart. “It happened again,” began a New York Times article on the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in a Dallas suburb in late April. The incident happened a week before the Justice Department announced it would not charge officers involved in the death of Alton Sterling, who was…
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Subscribe to A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks – on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts – to unwrap the mysteries in EW’s after-show every Monday during the Showtime revival. David Lynch did not go gentle into that good night when ABC sent Twin Peaks to the graveyard of cancelation in 1991. Unable…
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It’s the time of year when millions of people will head outside and will be tending to their flower, vegetable or wildlife gardens. Along with adding beauty to your yard or giving you the ability to cultivate your own produce, gardening can also help people reduce stress, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and decrease…
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It’s the time of year when millions of people will head outside and will be tending to their flower, vegetable or wildlife gardens. Along with adding beauty to your yard or giving you the ability to cultivate your own produce, gardening can also help people reduce stress, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and decrease…
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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 120, published May 16, 2017. On the podcasts to TV beat. A couple of developments here: (1) ABC…
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(Illustration by Chris Kindred) There’s this literary theory called the “mulatto canary in the coal mine.” It holds that the treatment and depictions of mixed-race people in art and culture is a reflection of the broader state of race relations in America at that moment. The theory has been applied to works throughout American history, from Nella…
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Yara Shahidi has to navigate complex racial issues both inside and outside the world of Black-ish. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rich Fury/Getty Images Yara Shahidi has to navigate complex racial issues both inside and outside the world of Black-ish. Rich Fury/Getty Images In some ways, Yara Shahidi is a lot like Zoey…
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast…
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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 119, published May 9, 2017. S-Town breaks 40 million downloads in its first month. That’s global downloads, by…
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“Stop hitting yourself… Stop hitting yourself…” That’s the sound of ESPN bullying itself into irrelevance as we’ve now learned that the self-described “worldwide leader in sports” has killed the best thing to come out of its Bristol, Connecticut headquarters in recent years: the TrueHoop network of podcasts. The news that the podcasts will shut down…
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