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Nicholas QuahOctober 16, 2018

“Yelling at her family in public, in your headphones”: Reality TV comes to podcasts

Plus: The state of Slate, Podtrac wariness, and national/local podcast collaborations.

Nicholas QuahJanuary 16, 2018

Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it

Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.

Shan WangSeptember 23, 2016

Slate, now 20 years old, reflects on the value of taking the long view and not chasing digital media trends

“One of the things you’ve seen across the marketplace for the last five years is a lot of companies are chasing the same kind of traffic from the same social distribution mechanisms…It’s not a recipe for producing a distinctive media brand.”

Nicholas QuahAugust 9, 2016

Hot Pod: A new player aims to bring the podcast advertising analytics some want (and others fear)

Plus: a new model for audio native advertising (sponsor-produced episodes in an otherwise editorial show), ESPN goes cross-platform, and The New York Times enters the competitive politics podcast space.

Madeline Welsh, Joseph Lichterman, and Shan WangDecember 2, 2015

The mobile adblocking apocalypse hasn’t arrived (at least not yet)

But it’s a real and growing factor on desktop browsers, which has gotten many news organizations thinking about how to respond to the adblocking threat. Here are some of the strategies they’re trying.

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 30, 2015

How 7 news organizations are using Slack to work better and differently

Here’s how Fusion, Vox, Quartz, Slate, the AP, The Times of London, and Thought Catalog are using Slack for workflow — and which features they wish the platform would add.

Simon OwensFebruary 6, 2015

Slate’s podcast audience has tripled in a year, and its bet on audio over video continues to pay off

With 6 million downloads a month and a growing set of live events, Slate is showing one potential path for publishers in the post-Serial world: using conversation to build connection.