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Gabe BullardApril 4, 2019

Smart speakers are on the rise. Will news grow with them?

“Forming a relationship with people on their speakers in the kitchen may make it easier to form a relationship with them on their headphones and in their cars.”

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.

Caroline CramptonMarch 26, 2019

The great British brush-off: The BBC and Google are fighting over who gets to control the podcast experience

Which is more important for a public broadcaster: distributing its content as widely as possible or putting its own interests above a tech company’s?

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 14, 2018

Consumers love smart speakers. They don’t love news on smart speakers. (At least not yet.)

People are still much more likely to use smart speakers for music and weather than news. But that could change as news organizations design news briefings specifically for the speakers.

Nicholas QuahJanuary 9, 2018

What the rise of the smart speaker might mean for podcasts (and on-demand audio in general)

Plus: In-car podcasts, Apple commissions an original TV show about a true crime podcast gone viral, and what’s going on with Podtrac?

Nicholas QuahNovember 7, 2017

If podcasts and radio move to smart speakers, who will be directing us what to listen to?

Plus: Pandora leans into podcasts, NPR has a leadership crisis, and Limetown and 30 for 30 plan returns.

Trushar BarotSeptember 18, 2017

The future of news is humans talking to machines

That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.

Shan WangMay 22, 2017

How NPR considers what new platforms — from smartwatches to fridges — will get its programming

“Generally, we try to get to ‘yes’ faster than we try to get to ‘no.‘”

Ricardo BiltonMay 10, 2017

Mixed reality, computer vision, and brain–machine interfaces: Here’s the future The New York Times’ reborn R&D lab sees

“The New York Times is not going to build a self-driving car, but if we see that technology as being inevitable, we should have a strategy for how The New York Times will fit into it.”

Shan WangNovember 29, 2016

Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo

The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots for messaging platforms like Slack and voice interfaces like Amazon Echo or Google Home.