One part newsletter, one part publication, the Bello Collective covers audio storytelling and the podcast industry on a weekly-ish basis. Already, I’ve expanded my podcasting listening beyond the hallowed halls of Gimlet Media and The Ringer Podcast Network (and you should, too!) It’s her solution to the coastal bias of the iTunes chart of top podcasts. She highlights podcasts large and small, independent and affiliated, and most important, local. In her weekly newsletter, Flyover Podcast, Moffitt features podcasts produced “between the coasts” (read: NOT New York City or LA). She also love sharing her love of podcasts with other people. Her latest newsletter introduced me to NPR’s new internationally-focused podcast, Rough Translation, and Teen Creeps, the podcast about young-adult pulp fiction I never knew I wanted until now. Locker is no stranger to thinking about podcasts she’s tackled the subject matter as a writer for The Guardian, whether it’s a how-to guide for creating your own or a review of the acclaimed In the Dark series. Pod People is a regular digest of all the podcasts she’s currently listening to-plus the occasional cat GIF. Melissa Locker is a charmer, and so is her newsletter. But his comprehensive, insightful writing equips subscribers on all things podcasts for the week ahead, including what they should be adding to their podcast queues. He doesn’t recommend specific podcasts on the regular. Since then, it’s become the go-to source of podcast news, at least for audio nerds like me, and even a standalone business for its founder/curator, Nick Quah. The grandfather of podcast newsletters, Hot Pod started as a side project in November 2014. New episodes, shows, and general audio news are delivered straight to your inbox. Over the last year, more newsletters have popped up for podcast makers and fans alike. Podcast discovery is broken, but there might be a short-term fix.
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So far, Apple, a big reason for the medium’s rise, hasn’t done enough to diversify its listings, though some people think its new stats could revolutionize the way we find podcasts (I’m skeptical). There are more than 300,000 podcasts listed on iTunes, yet the same 10 to 15 are the ones pitched to me. But increasingly, those sources offer a rehash of the top podcasts on the iTunes chart. I still rely on friends (or the occasional Tinder date) to recommend their favorite podcast of the moment. I’d mix in the occasional word-of-mouth recommendation from a friend, acquaintance, or stranger. NPR’s Morning Edition and the beloved radio program-turned-podcast This American Life were staples of my media diet.Īs more podcasts launched, I relied on NPR and affiliates like WNYC to clue me in on what I should consume next. I was an original GFOP, what the co-hosts, Roger Bennett and Michael Davies, called “Great Friends of the Pod.” Before this first serious foray into podcasts, I had been a longtime public radio consumer.
I’m a fútbol fangirl, and Men in Blazers became my regular fix of soccer talk with a side of witty banter. I discovered my first podcast in 2012 vis-à-vis Grantland (RIP).
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