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In a somewhat surprising development, Spotifystarted releasingThe Michelle Obama Podcaston other platforms last week.
It has tracked as high as the top spot on the Apple Podcast charts.
PRXs chief content officer John Barth is retiring at the end of the year,Current reports.
[John] felt the time was right, the spokesperson said.
He will focus on a smooth transition of projects and relationships to best support staff.
Emanuele Berry isThis American Lifes new executive editor.
A former editor and producer at Gimlet Media, Berry joined TAL last year.
Kelly launched her own self-funded podcast last week,characterizing it as an escape from corporate overlords.
Shout-out to the shows that cranked out emergency pods last week.
Some may disrespect the emergency episode drop, but not I.
This news cycle, it breaks us all.
Functionally, this means that proceedings cannot start until June 2021.
Im not going to relitigate the whole is it possible to make an ethical true crime podcast?
Firstly, theres the way that podcastings norms and conventions transmit beyond national and legal boundaries.
I imagine the main legal considerations would have been defamation, he said.
But as soon as Chris Dawson was charged, everything changed from a legal perspective.
But a podcast on many official and unofficial external platforms can be difficult to remove completely.
Can true crime podcasting ever truly thrive in jurisdictions with strict contempt of court and sub judice rules?
(You know the one.)
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Which is exactly what happened.
I am, however, an independent self-employed writer, proudly so.)
Why people are debating whether the Fifth Symphony is elitist.
Its all very Borg-like.
5, and classical music.
They make very liberal use of air quotes, they said.
We never used those words or implied them.
And then there are the downloads.
Which, you know, is not surprising.
None of this should be, not now.
Harding and Sloan are still working their feelings over what happened to them.
This story also made me think of one other thing.
Maybe you want that resistance, that lack of instant portability.
They added: Social media can so easily distort whats beautiful about podcasting.
Have you seen some of the guys tweets?
Share, leave a review, so on.
[Nicks note: I called it instantly legendary.]
But The Case of the Missing Hit wouldnt be in my personal top five of the shows episodes.
It probably wouldnt even be in the top thirty.
I call this format The Inconsequential Quest.
The Case of the Missing Hit fits this rubric precisely.
The award-winning 2016 episode Gregor is a classic of this subgenre.
Its this: who gets to go on an inconsequential quest?
The resources required to make a really high quality show of this kind make independent production very difficult.
Celebrity access, by the way, has proved to be somewhat important to the inconsequential quest genre.
Who doesnt have the chance to throw time and money at a weird little problem and see what sticks.
For me, the best inconsequential quests turn out not to be inconsequential at all.
But to find those stories, you have to spend a long time looking.
And not everybody has that luxury.
