Submissions and Disclosures

Submissions

We accept story submissions via email to editor@podnews.net. Here are other ways of contacting us.

Here is more detail on submitting a podcast for our podcast news section.

We do not seek payment to cover any story.

Things that really help us when submitting stuff:

• Photographs of humans. We really like large, landscape, photographs (or links to them). Your big Twitter banner image might be up our street. If you don’t give us any artwork, we might do some poor visual puns.
• No, not logos. We don’t want a logo: people confuse those for ads. We don’t want your square podcast artwork, either. Photographs that have people in them work best.
• Simple DOC or PDF releases. We like those (though make sure the text is copyable). DOC format is slightly better than PDF, but both are good. If text has links or other formatting, we’ll often use that.
• Everything we need to do our job in one email. We work in a different timezone to you (probably), so if you tell us “photos on request!” or “are you interested in this [random one line story] so I can send you a press release?” then you’ve just added a 24 hour delay.
• Please use our right name. We’re called Podnews. We’re not called PodNews. Thank you.

We always respect embargoes. Please ensure embargoes are clearly marked - normally in capitals at the top of the release (“EMBARGOED UNTIL MAY 20”). Bear in mind that we publish at 6am ET in winter, 7am ET in summer (1100 GMT), so if you give us an embargo for 8am New York time, a) we’ll be sad, and b) it’ll be old news by the time we publish it the next day. (Go for 4am, and you get all the morning trades.)

We always respect requested anonymity.

We want to cover diverse voices. We’re keen to achieve a healthy gender balance, cover news from outside the USA, celebrate stories from indie podcasters, and amplify the under-represented. Please don’t shy away from pointing out in your cover email if you fall into any of these groups.

Things we don’t cover

We no longer accept stories containing reports, research or studies that are solely behind data capture walls - forms that require our readers to register, or enter personal details like email addresses, to “unlock” content.

If you’re sending us a press release about an award or nomination for your work as part of a larger awards (The Webbys, as one example), it’s unlikely that we’ll cover it, because there are another fifty similar press releases we’d have to publish too. We do normally carry all the winners in a release from the awards, though. And congratulations.

Paid opportunities

Podnews has sponsorship opportunities to ensure daily coverage of your product or service; and offers a paid “editorial focus” to promote big launches. Kristy is at sales@podnews.net and will be happy to help you.

Commercial ownership and disclosures

Podnews is published by Podnews, LLC. Our partners are Amazingly Brilliant Pty Ltd and Podcast Movement, LLC. Both partners contribute to the business’s operations, but Podcast Movement, LLC has no influence in the editorial process, and does not see editorial content prior to publishing. No user data is shared by either partner.

Sponsors and supporters are not given any editorial control of stories within the main newsletter, nor given any guarantee we’ll cover a story. Podnews may carry sponsored content as separate stories or sections, and the relationship between us and that company will be clearly marked.

You can buy classified advertising; we do not see any placed classified advertising during our editorial process, and are ignorant of the contents of this section until completion of each daily edition.

We have a cost-neutral partnership package with event and conference organisers where we help promote their events with a mix of paid classifieds and editorial mentions. They have no control over the content of any editorial mention.

James Cridland is Podnews’s Editor. Personal investments over US$1,000 are either a) chosen at the sole discretion of an investment manager, who he does not instruct beyond overall investment aims; or b) invested in market tracking funds.

James is also a consultant for podcast and radio companies, and a speaker at associated conferences and events. Some of these companies will pay him fees or expenses in the course of his work. He will disclose companies for whom he performs regular contracted work. Currently, these include the following:

• James is an advisor for The Podcast Show London, Poductivity, The Podcast Broker, RSS.com, and Fountain.
• James does regular (though uncontracted) work with the Radiodays group of events.