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Personally from CBC.
Funding for NPR is under threat in 2025 after Elon Musk and Vivek
Ramaswamy have written
that they intend to take aim at funding for both NPR and PBS.
NPR is one of the largest podcast publishers in the US and has
trained many producers who
work elsewhere. Well, NPR itself earns less than 1% of its
funding from the US government,
although its member stations earn 14% of their income that way.
In 2023, NPR's total revenue
was $318 million, and in the UK, the BBC's revenue from
government-mandated licence fees
was $4.6 billion, and five times fewer people live in the UK
than the US.
Eric Nuzum, a former NPR executive, suggests, though, that
those at NPR should lead with
a concrete vision for the future, rather than take a defensive
position.
The BBC published its top podcasts of 2024 based on plays within
BBC Sounds, the corporation's
proprietary audio app. The BBC's daily news podcast, Newscast,
was most popular in a year
with a UK and US election. More podcasts are being updated this
year and more often. Livewire's
visualised podcast index stats has data today showing that 243,000
podcasts were updated in
the last 14 days. That's up 2.5% from this time last year.
Additionally, 852,000 episodes were published
in the last 14 days as well, and that number is up 7.6%. And
Australian podcast producer and journalism
professor, Siobhan McHugh, has focused on her 10 best podcasts
of 2024.
And thank you to Andi Last, who became our latest personal
supporter over the holidays. She's the
media manager of Pure Financial Advisors, working on the Your
Money, Your Wealth podcast, and it's
people like Andi who help keep pod news free for everybody. So
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you. If you would like to be like Andi and support us, you can
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It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff, and Tenacity is a
fork of the Audacity audio editor,
but without the Russian analytics data or licensed dramas. A
number of forks were produced after
Audacity was acquired by Muse in 2021. Most have now merged into
this project. And if you're running
transcripts as part of your production process, like we are,
Whisper CPP has been updated in Homebrew,
and now lets you use the large turbo model. It offers you more
accuracy, and it's much,
much faster. And in podcast news, Jimmy Carter, the 39th
President of the United States, has died.
He was 100 years old. In the Guardian's Politics Weekly, America,
Jonathan Friedland talks to Jimmy
Carter's biographer, Jonathan Alter, about why history should
look favorably on the peanut farmer
turned politician. And in the Podnews Weekly review this week,
the podcast's power supporters give their
views about how 2024 was for them, and what to look forward to
in 2025. And this podcast is sponsored
by CBC. And from CBC, Personally is the home for intimate
storytelling and memoir. You can get lost in
someone else's life in Personally, and the show is now accepting
pitches. There's a link in the show notes.
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