For many Southerners, the new podcast S-town feels like coming home. It starts with the drawl. Whether your hometown is a big city, or the smallest, one-stoplight corner of the world, you know at least one person with that sticky, sweet, distinctively southern drawl. It’s
“Let’s do the numbers.” *jazz music* Public radio fans will be familiar with this intro. It is a staple of Marketplace, a portfolio of business and economics news programs heard on public radio stations and podcasts. Reaching more than 13 million listeners weekly, Marketplace shows
Politico announced earlier today that it has joined forces with Panoply, Slate Magazine’s podcasting network, to stream its podcasts Off Message and Nerdcast. In the announcement Politico’s President, Poppy MacDonald, said, “this partnership will make it easier for our listeners to tune in each week, as
Earlier this month, Gimlet Media released the trailer for Heavyweight, a new podcast hosted by author and producer Jonathan Goldstein. In an interview for the podcast Startup, Gimlet founder and CEO Alex Blumberg’s introduction of Goldstein says it all: Blumberg: “For people who don’t know,