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April 16, 2024:
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The long-running interview show hosted by Anna Sale, Death, Sex & Money, is back, with a new home. Formerly with WNYC Studios, the show launches with Slate today, with a conversation with a sociopath. We learn that a life without shame could feel beautifully liberating.
January 12, 2024:
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Death, Sex & Money has been acquired by Slate. The show was with WNYC Studios.
September 8, 2023:
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Andrew Golis has decided to leave New York Public Radio as Chief Content Officer. His last day will be next Friday at the company, which owns WNYC Studios.
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 23, 2023:
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Shanta Covington has been named Co-Executive Producer for Our Body Politic. She joins from WNYC Studios.
June 3, 2022:
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WNYC Studios has signed with UTA to sell its shows to movie makers and TV companies.
February 9, 2022:
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16 duPont-Columbia Awards were announced last night. Winners included According to Need from Katie Mingle and 99% Invisible, Blindspot from WNYC Studios and The History Channel, and The Line, an original podcast from Apple TV+.
February 3, 2022:
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In a new season, The Experiment focuses on spam - not unwanted email, but the meat thing in a can. The show is produced by The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, and starts - a little unexpectedly - in the Philippines. - read more
December 22, 2021:
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Ten Percent Happier is expanding to launch its own podcast studio, developing a wide range of shows that will explore the intersection of everyday life and mindfulness. The new podcast studio has launched under the leadership of Jen Poyant (ex WNYC Studios and Stable Genius Productions) and Kimmie Regler (Gimlet Media), and is to launch three new shows in the next six months.
December 1, 2021:
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Noel King has joined Vox's Today, Explained as Editorial Director and co-host. She was formerly with NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. The daily podcast will also air on local public radio stations nationwide, in partnership with New York's WNYC Studios.
October 19, 2021:
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Melissa Harris-Perry has been named the Host and Managing Editor of The Takeaway from PRX and WNYC Studios.
January 6, 2021:
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Mikel Ellcessor, the co-founder of WNYC Studios, is joining Supercast as Partnership Lead. "They're cracking the code," he says: "podcasters + paid fans = sustainability".
April 22, 2020:
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The 2020 winners of the New York Festival Radio Awards have been announced. The CBC were awarded 'broadcaster of the year'; their Hunting Warhead podcast was awarded as Best Investigative Reporting. Winners also included Wondery, CBS News Radio's Mobituaries, ESPN's 30 for 30; WNYC Studios' Dolly Parton's America; The Melbourne Age's Last Voyage of the Pong Su; and Lantigua Williams & Co's 70 Million. Here are the full winners.
March 18, 2020:
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Former WNYC Studios VP and Commissioning Editor for the BBC, Tony Phillips has joined London-based audio production company Broccoli Content as their new Chief Creative Officer. He'll help scale the company, including developing international partnerships.
March 3, 2020:
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BBC Studios has invested into podcast app Pocket Casts. NPR, WNYC Studios and WBEZ Chicago have also added new investment: terms weren't disclosed. BBC Studios is the commercial arm of the BBC, which, almost a year ago, blocked its podcasts from Google Podcasts.
October 4, 2019:
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Radiolab's Jad Abumrad has been working 9 to 5 on a new podcast. Dolly Parton's America is a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking of one of America’s great icons. (WNYC Studios / OSM Audio)
September 3, 2019:
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In Boston MA, USA, the "educational audio conference" Sound Education is planned from October 9th-12th. Among the speakers is Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist), Tony Phillips (WNYC Studios), and Julia Barton (Pushkin Industries).
July 19, 2019:
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Tweaks for apps and services include podcast app Breaker, which is adding integration with Bullet to produce shareable audio clips for social media; the Pocket Casts app is advertising in WNYC Studios podcasts (thanks, Kristofor!); podcast host Spreaker's trim and crop tool has been improved; remote recording service Squadcast suggests that it will soon be supported on iOS and iPadOS; and Dropbox now has integrations with transcription services.
June 13, 2019:
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Werk It from WNYC Studios has released details of its salary survey into podcast pay and gender splits in the industry.
February 7, 2019:
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WNYC has named Andrew Golis (Vox, The Atlantic, PBS) as their new Chief Content Officer. He will work across WNYC News, WNYC Radio, and WNYC Studios.
January 10, 2019:
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Death, S#x and Money is back for a new series. (Mis)Educations focuses on those that have realised that what they learned about the subject might have done more harm than good. (WNYC Studios)
December 4, 2018:
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Classical music fans rejoice: Aria Code is produced in partnership with The Metropolitan Opera, and "pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time", says the press release. (WQXR / The Metropolitan Opera / WNYC Studios)
November 9, 2018:
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WNYC Studios is launching SciShow Tangents with Hank Green and John Green. It's based on their SciShow YouTube show. The company is also relaunching Dear Hank and John and The Anthropocene Reviewed
September 7, 2018:
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WNYC Studios announced a partnership with authors John Green and Hank Green to "to remaster and relaunch two of their current podcasts, and co-produce a new one focused on science".
August 15, 2018:
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Podtrac have released their US top podcast publishers data for July. Total global downloads is down by 2% month-on-month, in spite of July being 3% longer than June. WNYC Studios is down by nearly a quarter.
June 14, 2018:
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TPX, the Canadian podcast sales company, have signed a deal to represent WNYC Studios podcasts in the country. They join Australia-based Whooshkaa in representing podcasts like Radiolab and Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin.
June 1, 2018:
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WNYC Studios has partnered with Whooshkaa for ad sales in Australia. "This partnership will allow Australian advertisers to reach even more local podcast listeners".
May 31, 2018:
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WNYC Studios launches American Fiasco, a twelve episode podcast series chronicling the story behind the US soccer team's meltdown at the 1998 World Cup. The press release describes it as "a universal, human story that is part underdog, part Icarus, part Rocky meets Apocalypse Now". (There won't be a meltdown this year: they didn't even qualify.)
October 9, 2017:
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Video: on the WNYC Studios facebook page, they've posted video from the recent Werk It podcasting conference. (PS: We're on Facebook too - come like us).
September 20, 2017:
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TuneIn announce First Play, an "early-release" podcast service. Interesting exclusivity play for their platform. Monetisation is unclear. Studios to sign up include WNYC Studios, Gimlet, HowStuffWorks and ESPN.
September 19, 2017:
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Sacked by Trump, formal federal prosecutor Preet Bharara launches his own podcast with WNYC Studios.