“The news can be pretty divisive, especially in an election year like the one we’re having now. So how do you create spaces where people can find some common ground?”
“Here we have a public radio station that seems to not only fail to recognize who its natural friends are, but one that is lashing out at potential allies.”
Kelly McEvers: “A lot of the great storytelling podcasts happen in the studio. I hope ours opens the door to people thinking more about what you can do in the field, when things don’t go as planned and are unexpected.”
“The key to evaluate NPR’s fate, I believe, lies in the way the institution views radio and digital/podcast audiences as two separate categories with separate strategies for audience development.”
Plus: Google plans its podcast play, Anchor joins the social-audio game, and SoundCloud’s financial numbers raise questions about viability (or acquisition).
But: “I’ve tried to be really disciplined about not calling this process just a redesign,” WBUR’s executive editor for digital Tiffany Campbell said. “We’ve built a brand new platform.”
Plus: How Recode thinks about podcasting, a new podcast CMS, the “public radio brain drain,” and more. (Also, your faithful Hot Podder begins to fly solo.)
Quah, Nicholas. "Hot Pod: Spotify is finally ready to bring podcasting to a new audience." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 26 Jan. 2016. Web. 28 Mar. 2024.
APA
Quah, N. (2016, Jan. 26). Hot Pod: Spotify is finally ready to bring podcasting to a new audience. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/01/hot-pod-spotify-is-finally-ready-to-bring-podcasting-to-a-new-audience/
Chicago
Quah, Nicholas. "Hot Pod: Spotify is finally ready to bring podcasting to a new audience." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 26, 2016. Accessed March 28, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/01/hot-pod-spotify-is-finally-ready-to-bring-podcasting-to-a-new-audience/.
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