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Nicholas QuahMarch 26, 2019

Spotify is still hungry for podcast companies, gobbling up Parcast

Plus: Gimlet pushes back on its aspirant union, Acast gets more continental, and Joe Rogan’s galaxy brain.

Nicholas QuahMarch 12, 2019

The podcast industry is growing out of its teen years — and facing a new identity struggle

Plus: The latest podcast-listening statistics, podcaster burnout, and messes and misconduct.

Nicholas QuahMarch 5, 2019

Luminary has $100 million, some top talent, and a mission to make you pay for podcasts. Can it pull it off?

All it’ll have to do is convince users to use a new app starting with no brand recognition, build exclusive programming that’s always pulling people in (and keeping them renewing), and do it all with VCs looking over their shoulders.

The year we step back from the platform

“Let’s replace the shadows that Twitter and Facebook and Google have been on the media with some business-model fundamentals. As 2018 has shown, they’ve offered us a lot more heartache than it feels like they’re actually worth.” Ernie Smith

Eric FreedmanNovember 19, 2018

Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism

“In both wealthy and developing countries, journalists covering these issues find themselves in the cross-hairs. Most survive, but many undergo severe trauma, with profound effects on their careers.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 15, 2018

Will Vox’s new section on effective altruism…well, do any good?

“It came out of a sense that there were some really important topics with impacts on human beings that didn’t get as much coverage in traditional journalism sections and pieces.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 28, 2018

“Find a way to resist being manipulated.”

Plus: Twitter, Facebook, and Google sign on to the European Commission’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, and BBC Africa’s investigation into four murders.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 11, 2018

Did Serial’s Season 3 score the single biggest podcast sponsorship deal ever?

Plus: The BBC uses podcasts as radio cross-promotion, The Daily gets stuck between a rock and an Op-Ed place, and The Guardian is joining the flagship news podcast game.

Jack Dorsey says Twitter is experimenting with features to promote “alternative viewpoints” in people’s timelines

Nicholas QuahJuly 31, 2018

Where should the daily news podcast go from here? (Can we get away from “the commute”?)

“There’s just this prevailing, unshakeable feeling that everybody’s drilling for oil in the same spot because some other guy found oil there already.”