Heath departs The Verge, to launch podcast, publication
Tech journalist Alex Heath is leaving The Verge and launching a podcast for Vox Media with brand strategist Ellis Hamburger. Called “Access,” the weekly show will focus on the tech industry’s inside conversation, with a special focus on the rise of artificial intelligence and how it’s reshaping products, companies and culture. The show will launch […]
Daily tech video podcast TBPN hires president
TBPN, a daily, live tech video podcast, has hired a president to increase its revenue, reports Katie Deighton of The Wall Street Journal. Deighton writes, “Hosts and founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays said Dylan Abruscato, a former Postmates executive who made his name heading partnerships at the once wildly popular app HQ Trivia, has joined their company in the newly […]
Marketing Brew adding weekly podcast
Marketing Brew, one of the newsletters from Morning Brew, is adding a weekly podcast. It will be hosted by Marketing Brew editor Kelsey Sutton, reporter Jennimai Nguyen, and senior reporter Katie Hicks. The podcast will come out on Wednesdays. Morning Brew’s chief of staff Kyle Hagge wrote on LinkedIn: “We’re bringing the same wit, irreverence, […]
The popularity of Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast
Benjamin Wallace of The New York Times writes about “Odd Lots,” the Bloomberg News podcast hosted by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. Wallace writes, “Over its nearly 10-year existence, the podcast has become a reliable decryption key for a world upended by geopolitical and macroeconomic change. But since ‘Liberation Day,’ President Trump’s announcement of extreme tariffs on April 2, […]
Krugman joins FT’s Wolf for podcast
Pulitzer Prize-winning economics columnist Paul Krugman, who left the New York Times at the end of last year, is teaming up with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times on a podcast. “The Wolf-Krugman Exchange” is a six-part podcast series exploring the unraveling of the post-World War II economic order and what may emerge in its place. Wolf and […]
WSJ seeks a host/producer for personal finance podcast
Are you a personal finance enthusiast with a knack for engaging an audience? We’re developing a brand-new personal finance podcast and are searching for a dynamic host/producer to bring it to life. This isn’t just another finance podcast. We aim to create a fresh, relatable and empowering resource that will help listeners navigate the often-intimidating […]
Bloomberg Businessweek is starting a podcast
Bloomberg Businessweek is launching a podcast that will feature news on Wall Street and Main Street, reports Ray Schultz of Publishers Daily. Schultz reports, “The new offering, ‘Everybody’s Business,’ will be hosted by Max Chafkin, a senior reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, and Stacey Vanek Smith. a public radio reporter and former co-host of NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ […]
Bloomberg Media, iHeartMedia extend podcast deal
Bloomberg Media and iHeartMedia have renewed a deal to continue co-producing new original podcasts and extend iHeartMedia’s role as the exclusive distributor of Bloomberg Media’s slate of popular podcasts. As part of the renewed agreement, iHeartMedia and Bloomberg will continue to collaborate on the creation and co-production of new podcasts. This includes the recently launched […]
FT is launching “Swamp Notes” podcast
The Financial Times is launching “Swamp Notes,” a podcast on U.S. politics, as a weekly standalone show after it was previously hosted on the FT News Briefing feed. The first episode will be on May 17. “Swamp Notes” will explores the intersection of money and power in American politics, and the biggest themes driving policy, […]
Why The Economist is making its podcasts more personal
Chris Sutcliffe of Media Voices spoke with Andrew Palmer, author of The Economist’s business-and-management focused column Bartleby who also hosts a podcast, about the publication’s podcast strategy. Sutcliffe writes, “While the decision to rebadge was partially motivated by a slight shift in how the topic is being covered in text versus audio, it was also as a […]
