Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton is a UK based journalist who has been writing about podcasts since 2014. Her journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Lenny, the New Statesman and the Millions. She is a regular speaker and media commentator on the state of the podcast industry.
Decentralising Political Podcasting
Jennifer Tracey was trying to do something different. A longtime podcast observer and veteran BBC producer, she had spent nine years at BBC Radio 4 in London making and hosting the iPM podcast, the weekly digital accompaniment to PM, the drive time radio show. “It was an amazing space to have on Radio 4 tell […]
Fremantle launches a new scripted podcast label, Storyglass
TV for your ears, part infinity.
The Case for Transcription
One thing about producing audio for the internet that a lot of people I talk to really like is the relative tranquility of the whole experience, especially when contrasted with all other forms of online publishing. There’s no comments section, and audiences generally have to explicitly listen to a whole show to hear what’s actually […]
Chapo Court House
The trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman began with jury selection on 5 November in Brooklyn, New York. Guzman was extradited to the US in January 2017, having escaped twice from prisons in Mexico, and is now facing charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy. In light of both the length of the […]
Rebuttals all the way Down
Like an awful lot of people, I spent a couple of weeks in 2016 completely obsessed with the Netflix true crime documentary Making a Murderer. The story of Steven Avery’s murder conviction, release due to new DNA evidence, and then fresh conviction in a different case was told skillfully by the show, and the overarching themes of ingrained injustice and unreliable law enforcement really suited the serialised streaming format….
The BBC Sounds App: Initial Impressions
On Tuesday night, at a glitzy event on London’s South Bank, there was a launch party for the BBC’s biggest product launch in a decade. The app in question, BBC Sounds, is intended to be a single location for all audio output from the corporation — radio, podcasts, music, archive material. Execs have been doing the media rounds all week, talking up the significance of this moment.
Curation in the Middle East
“We have a long history of the oral tradition in the region, and maybe more so than other cultures. Of course, storytelling is commonplace across communities, but here in the Middle East there’s always been this tradition of gathering around oral storytellers in the streets,” Hebah Fisher was telling me. “You would sit for hours […]
The BBC Shares Podcast Numbers
James Purnell, the BBC’s director of radio and education, published an assessment this week on how the corporation is doing, podcast-wise. “Overall, pretty well,” is his take on how things have been going since the BBC decided to start making more original podcast content a little over a year ago.
Shiny, Shiny Awards
iHeartMedia announced this week that they are starting their very own awards ceremony.