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Articles tagged radio (54)

Tracey LindemanJune 8, 2017

How 80-year-old Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the CBC, is driving innovation from within

The Digital R&D Lab, started five years ago as one employee’s passion project, serves as an internal incubator for ideas and plays host to digital projects carried out in partnership with non-Radio-Canada groups.

Shan WangFebruary 14, 2017

No mugshot exploitation here: The New Haven Independent aims to respect the reputations of those arrested in the community it covers

The news site has an unusual policy on crime reporting: No names or mugshots of those arrested unless they’re public figures, the arrest is judged to be a public emergency, or its reporters are able to interview the accused directly.

Nicholas QuahJuly 26, 2016

Hot Pod: Are too many people skipping the ads in podcasts?

Plus: Using TV’s playbook to pitch podcasts to advertisers, moving from magazines into audio, and a Slack experiment aims to make Gimlet’s core listeners feel engaged.

Here’s what worked when The Economist tried out “audiograms” to promote its podcasts on Facebook

Nicholas QuahApril 19, 2016

Hot Pod: Is $12-a-day a fair wage for New York’s many radio interns?

Plus: USA Today’s podcast download numbers, Google Play Music finally buys into podcasts, and whether independent podcasts don’t get enough attention.

Laura Hazard OwenApril 18, 2016

Left on the dial: With young people trading AM/FM for streaming, will radio find a home in your next car?

Today’s teens and twentysomethings turn to their phone for audio, not their radio. What kind of future is there for businesses built on a terrestrial radio signal?

Shan WangMarch 31, 2016

In the room where it happens: The host of NPR’s new show Embedded talks about news in podcast form

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.”

Shan WangJanuary 21, 2016

The New York Times and WBUR are bringing ‘Modern Love’ essays to life with sounds and celebrity reads

“We’re trying to touch people just through sound, in a really profound way.”

Nicholas QuahNovember 24, 2015

Hot Pod: Revisiting the question: Why doesn’t audio go viral?

The UX innovation we need. Plus: public radio executive pay, a boom in custom branded podcasts, and the aging of NPR’s audience.

Joshua BentonNovember 18, 2015

Podcasting in 2015 feels a lot like blogging circa 2004: exciting, evolving, and trouble for incumbents

The same trends we saw a decade ago — professionalization on one hand, platformization on the other — sure seem to be playing out again.

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