Podcasts

‘Star Trek’ icon LeVar Burton isn’t done with podcasting just yet

The LeVar Burton Reads podcast will get second season, and perhaps many more.Image: John Salangsang/Variety/REX/Shutterstock LeVar Burton just can’t stop reading. The former Star Trek and Roots star just wrapped the first season of his weekly podcast, LeVar Burton Reads, where Burton lends his reassuring, emotive voice to various works of short-form fiction. The term “season” is a loose one — the books are a grab bag of authors...

Art19 gets $7.5 million in funding to build out its podcasting platform

Even in many podcasting circles, Art19 isn’t exactly a household name. The startup has largely operated behind the scenes, without much in the way of active promotion. Even so, the companies that have enlisted its hosting and ad technologies are among some of media’s largest. The New York Times, Vox and iHeartMedia all take advantage of its services, which are akin to something like Podbean, but positioned more directly...

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 theres a five-minute preview of the first season on iTunes now. Season 1 will have five episodes on five different...

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 life than most people do by age 25. Nates dad, Eric Butkus, produces podcasts and videos for the Journal of...

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 capture as much buzz. But podcasting hasn’t faded as an industry. In fact, podcasts were already on the rise well...

Basketballs Newest Authority Isnt Sitting CourtsideHes Podcasting

The NBAs collective bargaining ruleswhich mainly govern contracts for players and team-building protocolsare messy and complicated, even for some league staffers. So when they needed extra lessons on the finer points, they enrolled in a summer class with Nate Duncan. Hes not an executive or a former player, though. Hes a podcaster. In the year since launching Duncd On, Duncan has become king of, as he puts it, the...