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“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.”
The New York Times is running its story Friday, while This American Life’s complementary report will air this weekend and be available for download as a podcast Sunday.
Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of Gimlet Media: “People who like public radio like podcasts, but people outside of public radio also like podcasts. So let’s find those people.”
AIR has come up with suggested rates of compensation for those who do freelance work for podcasts, where a new injection of for-profit companies is complicating the math of public media.
O'Donovan, Caroline. "This American Life tries to turn its radio audience onto podcasting with its new show Serial." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Oct. 2014. Web. 30 Jul. 2021.
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