Quartz launches podcast with Marketplace

Tim Fernholz and Kevin Delaney of Quartz write about the business news site’s new podcast, called Actuality.

Fernholz and Delaney write, “An audio product is a visceral and immediate way to recreate the moment when someone leans over from the next desk and says, ‘get a load of this story.’ Quartz’s Tim Fernholz and Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour are your co-hosts for Actuality, and our other journalists will make regular appearances. We’re also bringing people connected to the story—experts and participants—into every conversation we have, to point out when we are wrong (and vice-versa).

“So, every other week, we’ll endeavor to bring you into a new story about the global economy and plug you into the conversation behind the news. We try not to take ourselves too seriously—and we hope you find the podcast both informative and entertaining.

“Actuality seemed like the perfect name for it — it’s what people in the audio business call the clips of tape from interviews that go into radio stories. Those – or other ‘pops’ of sound – will give us a nice starting point for many of our discussions. But where those conversations go from there will surprise you — just like the word ‘actuality.’ In its earlier meaning, it’s defined as things as they really are, not as we expect them to be.”

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