To give you the basics: the app places the Times’ podcast network with shows like The Daily and Still Processing alongside its acquired content from Serial Productions, as well partner content from This American Life. On Tuesday, the publication launched its audio-only iPhone app, New York Times Audio, in beta with an exclusive Axios piece detailing the thoughts behind it. The New York Times is no longer solely in the podcast content game. The New York Times’ audio app lands (in beta) I’ve reached out to iHeart for comment and will let you all know tomorrow if they have a statement. This caps off a year of broader movement in the podcast union space, as I noted above. The union sent a letter to management today requesting voluntary recognition. The union is focused on “pay disparities and opaque decision-making,” per Bloomberg. (Disclosure: editorial teams at Vox Media, including The Verge, are also unionized with WGAE.) The proposed bargaining unit consists of 125 producers, researchers, writers, editors, and hosts. As for today, we’re looking at The New York Times’ audio app, radio’s complicated podcasting relationship, and, um, Salesforce getting into video podcasts? Off we go.īREAKING: iHeartMedia’s podcast team unionizes This is news fresh off the Bloomberg presses: iHeartMedia’s podcast team is forming a union with the Writer’s Guild of America East - the same union that represents Parcast, Gimlet Media, and The Ringer.

I’ll tease that we have a story lined up for you next week that I’m excited about, as well as some programming planned for the week of Christmas and New Year’s. Between a metal Christmas tree burning down and a new one showing up in its place a day later and me myself eating upwards of 10 potato pancakes this week alone, I can tell you it feels like the holiday season.

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