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The Republicans’ stop-gap bill failed, bringing a potential shutdown closer
NPR has announced the return of its student podcast contest, NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. The contest, which was last held in 2020, is aimed at students in grades kindergarten to 12th and asks them to write, record and produce eligible podcasts between three and eight minutes in length. The grand prize winner will receive a…
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NPR is cutting jobs because of the drop in ad revenue
National Public Radio (NPR), the public radio network in the US, announced that it will be firing 10% of its staff to close a $30-million budget gap. NPR’s revenues are expected to fall short by $30 million on an annual budget of roughly $300 million, NPR CEO Lansing Lansing said. NPR said it will also…
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There were some big stories from the Hot Pod Summit
iHeart Media’s President of Podcasts Ceo-Conal Byrne said the podcasting division has grown over the last four years. “The business and the economics of podcasting today still sit with the creator and the publisher, because you own the pipe…you distribute your shows through,” he added. Byrne further said it makes sense to him why YouTube…