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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?
February 29, 2024:
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Why are we celebrating Pushkin’s Malcolm Gladwell, who fired a third of his employees, with an award this week? Skye Pillsbury asks whether accountability has “slipped through the cracks” in her newsletter.
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.
October 10, 2023:
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Skye Pillsbury reports that WNYC's Death, Sex & Money, "a juggernaut show that helped establish WNYC as a force within podcasting", has been cancelled. Production ends in January. Anna Sale says "I am working with the company to find a new partner or home for our show long-term".
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 14, 2022:
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The spotlight is focusing on Spotify's podcasting business. Skye Pillsbury has published "an oral history of Gimlet's slow demise" after interviewing five current and former Gimlet staffers. Ariel Shapiro takes a look at Spotify’s practice of making its podcasts exclusive, and also notes that The Ringer didn't make any layoffs. Ashley Carman suggests that Spotify is refining its strategy.
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.
September 9, 2022:
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Skye Pillsbury publishes "a visual representation of what diversity looks like at the executive and deal-making level in Big Podcasting."
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.
December 15, 2021:
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Skye Pillsbury is now writing for Timber, among others; for her first piece, she focuses on Storytime with Seth Rogen.
March 24, 2021:
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Are podcast producers undervalued? Skye Pillsbury highlights a number of issues with senior management having "little understanding of the resources and time required to produce high-quality podcasts".
July 23, 2020:
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If 2020 wasn't rubbish enough, Skye Pillsbury is stepping down as writer of the Inside Podcasting newsletter next week. We'll miss her fun, bright, positive attitude in the podcast space.
May 14, 2020:
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Kara Swisher is guest on Inside Podcasting this week with Skye Pillsbury.
May 7, 2020:
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Inside Podcasting with Skye Pillsbury is back for a new season. Interviews will include Kara Swisher, Wil Williams, Leo Laporte and Shima Oliaee.
January 2, 2020:
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Podcast Pontifications, normally Evo Terra's podcast, has had guest hosts for the last while. On December 31st, Skye Pillsbury talked about perfecting your podcast PR pitch, and today's episode features James Cridland, Podnews's editor, talking about smart speakers.
August 8, 2019:
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Inside Podcasting launches next week: Skye Pillsbury interviews podcast hosts about their craft, including Martine Powers from Post Reports, Leon Neyfakh from Slow Burn, and Jason Calcanis from This Week In Startups. (Skye, mine's a pint of a decent craft IPA). (Libsyn)
June 19, 2019:
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At Podcast Movement 2019, Thurs 15 Aug 11.30am - 12.15pm, an exciting session: hearing from podcast newsletter writers. Wil Williams, Skye Pillsbury and Podnews editor James Cridland will be on stage with Arielle Nissenblatt from EarBuds Podcast Collective. We suspect only one will be silly enough to wear a branded shirt.