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June 20, 2024:
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Is your work in Descript being used to train generative AI tools - and could it leak out in other forms? Writing in The Squeeze, Skye Pillsbury notes that a major investor in Descript is OpenAI, a company which has been keen to grab as much training data for its tools as possible. Does that include your content in Descript - even the stuff that doesn’t make it to your final podcast? The company says no, but is there more to the story?
December 29, 2023:
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In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, hear from 21 people across podcasting about their highlights of 2023, and predictions for 2024. More consolidation for podcast publishers, diversity in monetisation techniques, big-name retirements as podcasting reaches 20, and the benefit of multi-platform podcasting, it’s all in this episode: speakers include Acast’s Ross Adams, Vox Media’s Nayeema Raza, Skye Pillsbury from The Squeeze, Ausha’s Jennifer Han, and many more. Listen here.
December 28, 2023:
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The Media Roundtable is a prediction special this week, with HotPod's Ariel Shapiro, Skye Pillsbury from The Squeeze and Podnews Editor James Cridland looking forward to 2024. Come for the hot take on YouTube; stay for the hot take on Spotify.
June 27, 2023:
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NYPR, the owner of WNYC Studios, is to eliminate FY23 bonuses for the leadership team, and will not take a new cycle of interns. An internal email, seen by Skye Pillsbury's The Squeeze, also warns of more cost-cutting to come.
June 16, 2023:
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The Podnews Weekly Review has a special guest host of Skye Pillsbury, Editor of The Squeeze. Skye and James discuss the week's podcasting news, and we're all treated to Skye's "British Accent".
October 6, 2022:
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In the weekly review podcast Podland News with Podnews's Editor James Cridland and Sam Sethi, the very excellent Skye Pillsbury talks about her podcast newsletter The Squeeze.
August 12, 2022:
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In The Squeeze, Skye Pillsbury highlights a company selling a podcast training program for $4,000 which Pillsbury suggests is little more than an unpaid internship.
July 29, 2022:
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The ethics behind true crime podcasts are the focus of Skye Pillsbury's The Squeeze newsletter this week, with an inside story of why a popular show was cancelled.
July 22, 2022:
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Skye Pillsbury's The Squeeze weekly newsletter has launched, with a scoop: MPR Axed Peabody-Winning Podcast "In The Dark" Halfway Through Production. It's a great piece of long-form reporting.
May 26, 2022:
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Skye Pillsbury is to launch a new podcast newsletter, The Squeeze. She was the original writer for Inside Podcasting, and also wrote for Hot Pod.