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In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.
Amid the downturn in audio, some executives think the public radio model — with a dash of true crime — might provide a way forward.
After more than a decade in the industry, Brian Reed is Question(ing) Everything about it.
The studio, at the California Institution for Women, will bring more incarcerated women’s voices to the podcast — and kickstart an ambitious training program.
“I only make unimportant things now, but it’s all the unimportant things that really make up our lives.”
“They’ve never said, ‘We got that wrong.'”
Plus: How researchers used OpenAI’s GPT model to take on a month’s worth of “boring” and “rote” work
This month, City Cast published guest demographic data for podcasts in its 11 cities and analyzed how that data compared to each local community.
In an era where the “easy money” is gone, celebrity sluggers are beyond reach, and commercial outfits are pulling back, public radio orgs can win by leaning into data and ideas that helped them create the art form.