Plus: Radiotopia turns to its listeners for support again, a podcast network partners with a book publishing house, and WNYC starts rolling out internships paid at something closer to a reasonable wage.
“The audience numbers for the past few months, which had been growing gangbusters before, have plateaued and even kind of fallen for pretty much almost all of our shows.”
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.”
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Wang, Shan. "Gimlet wants to become the “HBO of podcasting” — here’s what its founder’s learned trying to get there." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Jul. 2015. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2015, Jul. 27). Gimlet wants to become the “HBO of podcasting” — here’s what its founder’s learned trying to get there. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/gimlet-wants-to-become-the-hbo-of-podcasting-heres-what-its-founders-learned-trying-to-get-there/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Gimlet wants to become the “HBO of podcasting” — here’s what its founder’s learned trying to get there." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 27, 2015. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/gimlet-wants-to-become-the-hbo-of-podcasting-heres-what-its-founders-learned-trying-to-get-there/.
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