Ladies who podcast: Meet the new crop of podcasting hosts
If youre a fan of socially minded, funny, female-helmed podcasting, your late 2015 is about to pop off in a major way. Tuesday morning, Lena Dunham announced on Instagramthat shell be launching a podcast about gender, sexuality and feminism for BuzzFeed. Itll be called Women of the Hour, and...
Welcome to Night Vale to launch new sci-fi series and podcasting network
The creators of Alice Isn’t Dead Alice Isn’t Deadhails fromNight ValecreatorsJoseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and features music byNight Valecomposer Disparition. The podcast willairan initial season of 10 bi-weekly episodes written byFink, running March 8July 5. In a statement, Nicole said she was drawn to Fink’s creepy writing, which...
Ambitious 5-year-old divides his time between podcasting and kindergarten
If The Show about Science is not already on your podcast subscription list, it absolutely should be. Big-name guests like Anna Rothschild and Joe Hanson of PBS Digital Studios are outshined by the host, Nate Butkus, who at the tender age of 5 is already doing more with his...
How a pair of San Francisco Giants fans found love through podcasting and Twitter
June 1, 2012: A Giants game of historic proportion. Image: Daniel zarchy Not long after graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2009, Daniel Zarchy found himself talking frequently with a friend about baseball. San Francisco Giants baseball, to be precise. “We would just talk about the Giants constantly,” Zarchy...
Founders of podcasting platform Acast share what should change about podcasts
In the United States, 57 million people listen to podcasts regularly. Image: Getty Images Are podcasts just having a moment? Almost two years ago, the true crime podcast Serial enthralled people worldwide with downloads hitting more than 1 million week by week. In its second season, Serial failed to...
