The Best Tech Podcasts for Cool Nerds
With the success of “nerd culture” there has been an unfortunate homogenization of media. Even something as niche as podcasts in which ...
A Case for the Mundane
It’s the Halloween season, a cherished time of year when fiction podcasters trot out their best ominous ambient soundscapes and scripts t...
The Parapod: The Haunted House Investigation That Lied
On a cold winter night in 2015 two comedy podcasters spent several hours in a supposedly haunted house in Yorkshire. One host hoped to find...
Luminary, “The Netflix of Podcasting,” Two Years Later
Two years ago a fluff coming-out piece in the New York Times debuted Luminary, a venture capitalist-funded podcast app with a hundred milli...
Knowledge Fight: A Vaccination to Conspiracy
In an age of disinformation few people hold the line against those who make a living converting anxieties into hate (and cold hard cash). K...
PRIDE: The Podcasts That Queered Me
Hi there. I’m a big pansexual genderqueer podcast journalist. A lot of labels, I know.
The half-joking headline of this was orig...
Why Your Podcast Sucks: S-Town
The 2017 the seven-part podcast S-Town settled around its audience like the warm front that precedes a spring thunderstorm. One looks up to...
Retract the Podcast Correction
If you or a loved one works on a podcast that deals in facts, from a WNYC fact-checker to somebody reciting Wikipedia articles in a closet,...
Life with LEO(h): Atypical’s New Fiction Podcast About Living With a Sexy Robot
I was primed to be excited about Life with LEO(h) from the moment Atypical posted a casting call. Ask anyone within shouting distance of me...
My Podcast, My Guide Book, and Me: The McElroys Venture Into Podcasting How-To
The McElroys, hosts of My Brother, My Brother, and Me and self-proclaimed “first family of podcasting,” are here with the 270+ page $23...