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Neel DhaneshaOctober 7, 2024

The former host of S-Town has a new subject to investigate: Journalism

After more than a decade in the industry, Brian Reed is Question(ing) Everything about it.

Nicholas QuahAugust 11, 2020

How do you run a fun membership drive in sad pandemic times? Maximum Fun has some ideas

Plus: What Spotify wants premium advertising to sound like, claims of systemic racism at PRX, BBC pushes for podcast audiences in Africa, and can Serial stay special?

Nicholas QuahJuly 22, 2020

“The idea is to have more Serials”: The New York Times acquires Serial Productions and partners with This American Life

“Our goal is not to change Serial’s DNA at all…For the people who love Serial — and there are millions of them — the idea here is to have more Serials.”

Nicholas QuahApril 17, 2018

Phew, we’ve apparently solved 97% of the podcast measurement problem — everybody relax

Plus: The impact of bad true crime podcasts, programmatic advertising is coming for your show, and the first children’s podcast festival.

Nicholas QuahJanuary 30, 2018

Turns out people really like podcasts after all (and now we have numbers to prove it)

Plus: PRX expands, WNYC shuffles, NPR stagnates, Dirty John adapts, Macmillan strategizes, and Gimlet parties.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 5, 2017

These are the most important developments in the podcast business so far in 2017

Plus the three most interesting podcast companies out there today.

Nicholas QuahJune 6, 2017

Apple, podcasting’s dominant (and mostly benign) middleman, is rebooting how it delivers shows

Plus: Gimlet makes a curious acquisition, a new run at fixing podcast discovery, and an under-the-hood technical shift.

Nicholas QuahMay 9, 2017

So how in the world do you break into a career in podcasting, anyway?

Plus: Getting podcast recs at hotel check-in, a bilingual radionovela, S-Town hits 40 million downloads, and Invisibilia gets ready to return.

Nicholas QuahApril 18, 2017

“If a Serial episode was a mountain peak, S-Town was the Himalayas”

Plus: Civics 101 expands its syllabus, an Apple tease, a new kind of daily news podcast, and Midroll tightens up its brands.

Nicholas QuahApril 4, 2017

NPR’s upcoming daily news podcast sounds like a Morning Edition promo, which would be too bad

Plus: S-Town’s big numbers, Panoply prepares its followup to Revisionist History, and the state of audio fiction.

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