The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut […]
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NPR turns comedy game show ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ into an Alexa and Google voice app
NPR is turning its popular game show program “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” into a voice application for smart speakers, including both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant-powered devices. The new app lets listeners play along at home by answering the fill-in-the-blank questions from this week’s news – just like the players do on the NPR podcast […]
View More NPR turns comedy game show ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ into an Alexa and Google voice app10 political podcasts to help you keep your sanity before the midterms
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In a time of volatile politics and chaotic news cycles, it can be hard to separate the signal from the noise, to stay informed without getting completely and totally overwhelmed.
Which is why, despite recent talk of a “podcast bubble,” the medium is exactly what we need right now. Podcasts can slow down and really study a topic or event, bringing in the kind of nuance that’s too often lacking in our current discourse.
Sure, partisan political podcasts — from the Crooked Media/”Pod Save America” crew on the left to Ben Shapiro’s show on the right — are still incredibly popular, as are news podcasts that dip into politics, like the New York Times‘ “The Daily.” Read more…
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View More 10 political podcasts to help you keep your sanity before the midterms‘Serial’ Season 3 is coming your way — and it’s taking on criminal justice
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Get ready for a podcast to completely take over your life – againSerial is back Sept. 20 for Season 3, with new episodes every Thursday.
According to a press release from the Serial team, Season 1 was downloaded over 16 million times. The phenomenal popularity of Serial‘s 2014 debut was a key factor in the resurgence and rise of podcast culture. It also led, remarkably, to the revisiting of Adnan Syed’s contentious murder conviction (though things are moving slow).
In Season 3, Serial goes right into the nitty-gritty and often uncomfortable flaws of the criminal justice system, specifically in Cleveland. From drug possession to full-on felony, each episode or batch of episodes will focus on a different crime and how it goes through the system. Read more…
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View More ‘Serial’ Season 3 is coming your way — and it’s taking on criminal justiceNPR meant to hail ‘the year of the woman’ in Mexico and promptly fell on an ass
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It may be a terrible year for the United States, but in Mexico, 2018 is “el año de la mujer” — the year of the woman.
A recent report from National Public Radio highlighted the abundance of women running for elected office in the Central American country. Everything would’ve been great, too, if not for an extremely unfortunate language error when NPR tweeted the story.
“There are more than 3,000 women running for elective office in Mexico,” the original tweet read. “Some Mexicans are calling 2018 ‘el ano de la mujer,’ which translates to ‘the year of the woman.'” Read more…
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View More NPR meant to hail ‘the year of the woman’ in Mexico and promptly fell on an assA group of public radio companies acquires podcast app Pocket Casts
NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago and This American Life announced today that they’ve acquired Pocket Casts, a podcast app created by Australian developer Shifty Jelly. That might sound like a lot of owners for one app, but the idea is to run Pocket Casts as a joint venture. And while former iHeartRadio executive Owen Grover […]
View More A group of public radio companies acquires podcast app Pocket Casts