In late June, NPR launched another daily news podcast. But instead of a fresh product push, this new project is actually a pivot from something that already exists. Coronavirus Daily, the daily podcast NPR launched on 18 March to cover the pandemic, is being rebranded as Consider This, an afternoon counterpart to its morning news […]

Negotiations between creators and corporations around intellectual property usually happen behind closed doors, and it isn’t too much of a stretch to argue that the structural inequities of any creative industry typically thrives on that opacity. But over the past week, the former hosts of BuzzFeed’s Another Round, Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, brought that […]

When lockdown orders started coming into effect around the world back in March, everyone I spoke with in podcast-land articulated their need to do something to meet this unprecedented moment. In the following weeks, numerous spin off projects were launched, and listeners started to find podcasts of all kinds catering to different aspects of the […]

This article is written in an “As Told To” format, based on an interview with Broccoli Content’s Renay Richardson. When it comes to the audio industry, I, like many black people in the industry, have been ignored when speaking of our treatment. Many of us are shut down, and many are fearful of the repercussions […]