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Plus: A big fat Leonard Lopate debacle at WBAI, “podcasts by women, for everyone, no creeps allowed,” and publishers are building teams around smart speakers.
There’s a lot that subscription on-demand audio gambits can learn from the increasingly formidable world of mindfulness apps.
The real revolution in video news will be when someone, someday, figures out a way to make timely, high-quality, democratically useful news work natively on a streaming platform.
The method was similar to the one Netflix uses to recommend movies — no crystal ball, but good enough to make an effective political tool.
Facebook and Netflix are reportedly pushing into hard news video.
Plus: Gimlet announces a new slate of shows, NPR focuses on internal talent development, and Audible puts one of its shows outside the paywall.
60dB, named for the volume at which a human speaks and founded by a former Planet Money reporter and two others with backgrounds at Netflix, is being teased as a “service for high-quality, short-form stories.”