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WFMU wants to shake up radio storytelling…with a conference
Since Man invented the conference, Man has complained about the conference. Conferences bring together the brightest people and best ideas in an industry, which can, paradoxically, create an echo...
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The newsonomics of public radio’s all-in-one tablet strategy
It’s a tablet experiment in cross-pollination. How do you use the 48 square inches of an iPad to expose the depth of public radio — thousands of hours of national programming, local shows, and...
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The newsonomics of NPR One and the dream of personalized public radio
Wouldn’t it be cool if public radio fans could get to all their stuff in one simple app? Stuff from Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Here & Now, All Things Considered — and their local station. It would...
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Hot Pod: Is Audible’s big entry into podcasting innovative enough to push the...
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue seventy-nine, published July 12, 2016. Audible pulls Channels out of beta. Well, it’s finally here: The spoken audio entertainment arm of...
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Hot Pod: Macmillan’s new network shows how podcasts can be a logical next...
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue ninety-nine, published December 6, 2016. Midroll’s new executive hires: Korri Kolesa is the new head of sales, replacing Lex Friedman as...
View ArticleA report on podcasting details some of the industry’s issues: diversity,...
Art19 is a member of Syndicated Media’s partner program. (For more info on that, check out this column.) I asked Carr if he thinks these partnerships with iHeartRadio — which, in my mind, adheres to...
View ArticleThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for...
Now, it should be noted that the public broadcasting system in general — and the CPB in specific, which serves as a key funding layer for NPR, PBS, and various public broadcasting stations across the...
View ArticleHow will we know when we’ve hit Peak Podcast? And are we there yet?
The IAB has announced the lineup for its third-annual podcast upfront, and it boasts some changes. Gimlet, Public Media Marketing, and iHeartRadio are added to the mix, while CBS and AdLarge appear to...
View ArticleThese are the most important developments in the podcast business so far in 2017
Audience size: 67 million U.S. monthly listeners, according to Edison and Triton Digital’s annual Infinite Dial report, up 21 percent from 57 million from the year before. The volume of growth between...
View ArticleWhat the rise of the smart speaker might mean for podcasts (and on-demand...
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....
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