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Press Publish – Nieman Lab Harvard University
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Press Publish is a weekly conversation with the people building the future of news: journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and more. Produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard.
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Press Publish 16: Jason Kint on how worried publishers should be about the arrival of adblockers on mobile
It’s Episode 16 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Jason Kint. Jason is CEO of Digital Content Next, which I confess I liked better under its old name, the Online Publishers Association. It’s the trade organization representing most of the country’s largest online publishers. I wanted to talk to Jason...
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Press Publish 15: Matt Thompson on The Atlantic’s attempt to breathe some life into classic blogging
It’s Episode 15 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Matt Thompson. Since earlier this year, Matt has been deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, But you might know him from some of his previous career stops. He spent a few years at NPR, heading up some of its most interesting digital initiatives,...
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Press Publish 14: Jenna Weiss-Berman on BuzzFeed’s podcast strategy and moves into audio news
It’s Episode 14 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Jenna Weiss-Berman, the director of audio at BuzzFeed. Jenna was hired last fall to figure out the site’s podcasting strategy, and thus far she’s launched three shows, each targeting the sites’s young diverse audience. Just about everything BuzzFeed does draws attention,...
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Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist’s case for public radio’s future
It’s Episode 13 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Adam Ragusea, the host of The Pub, a podcast about the state of public media — mostly public radio. I first heard Adam’s voice about 7 years ago, when he was a reporter for WBUR, the local NPR station here in...
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Press Publish 12: Jesse Holcomb of Pew Research on what they’re watching for in this election cycle
It’s Episode 12 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest in today’s episode is Jesse Holcomb, an associate director of research at the Pew Research Center. Jesse is one of Pew’s lead researchers on journalism, which means he’s been part of a lot of interesting projects — analyzing issues like how local news...
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Press Publish 11: Cory Haik on how The Washington Post is rethinking its strategy for mobile
It’s Episode 11 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! Hey, did you not know we have a podcast? That’s fair — Press Publish debuted back in January 2013 and, like many podcasts, it lost steam after a while. But we’re ready to jump back in! I hope you’ll join us as we interview some...
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Ignore at your professional peril
NOTICE: If you are a podcast professional or yearn to become one, you will be officially certified as incompetent if you don’t listen to this conversation. It’s a refreshingly transparent and revealing conversation between two insiders - deep insiders - who could have used the opportunity to spout off about how smart and successful they are but instead express their bafflement (and, it should be said, their delight) in being on the front edge of discovery, where mistakes are inevitable and ignorance abounds, in this, what may turn out to be the latest Golden Age of Podcasting.
Or maybe not. How many previous incarnations have we seen? And yet – and yet - Serial. But so what, Serial? Are you just another regressive media loop-de-loop, or do you usher in something legitimately new and vibrant and worthy of taking out a mortgage on?
These are the sorts of questions that the host of the Press Publish podcast, Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, asks Jenna Weiss-Berman, the newish head honcho at Buzzfeed’s podcast skunkworks.
Has podcasting finally arrived, semi-permanently? are advertisers convinced the demographics/metrics are good? Is Buzzfeed hiring? (Yes, maybe; Yes, more so; and Yes, a few this very week).
And what sort of hire is Jenna looking for? (authentic, unheard voices, people with real audio skills, something between NPR perfection and shockjock exuberance).
And some real news: Buzzfeed has a deal in hand with an unnamed celebrity to host a new 5-part podcast set to be launched in October; wants to launch a Daily Show-type podcast news thingy aimed at a young audience; is exploring some sort of relationship with Acast, a Swedish tech outfit that apparently has developed a p-cast multimedia platform that Jenna thinks is way cool.
So listen up. Lots to chew on. Lots of insider stuff that you should not miss.
A Must-Listen
Great podcast. Loved episode #1. Really looking forward to the next episodes. A must-listen for tech journos (as well as: just techs and just journos).
Keep up the great work!
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