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Wired / Felix Salmon / Mar 8, 2018
“[W]e come to Act 4, Vox’s new podcast, Today Explained — a daily news podcast which has had ultrahigh production values from inception. That kind of up-front commitment, without any guarantee of popularity or commercial success, would have been unthinkable just a few months ago: It’s a big-money move that even Gimlet and The New York Times didn’t dare attempt — let alone public radio stations, which are by nature more fiscally cautious.”
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