Applications now open for Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship

• Applications are now open for a new annual $20,000 fellowship for an Australian resident to create innovative audio stories in memory of award-winning Australian audio producer Jesse Cox. The Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship say they “are looking for proposals for audio stories that are creative, innovative, ambitious, brave and elevates diverse voices.”

• Karen Geier’s podcast On Belief: A podcast about cults recieved a Cease and Desist from… someone. Before she’d even made the podcast. Here’s how she’s dealing with it.

• If you don’t have the Spotify Daily Podcast playlist, here’s where it apparently lives. (Thanks to Adam Jaffrey for sleuthing!)

  
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• The Guardian, a UK newspaper, is working on PodEx: a new specification to use within existing podcasts to trigger events during podcast playback.

• A new subscription podcast network, Quake Media, is coming. Nick Quah covers them today in a story entitled “a new subscrption service looms” (see what he did there); it’ll be $6.99 a month when it launches (we’d guess September).

• Mail…kimp?! has launched “Mailchimp Presents”, a set of podcasts and videos aimed at entrepreneurs. They’ve partnered with a set of producers including Vice and Pineapple Street Media.

• Cabana have added ten new podcasts to their roster, from companies including Inc. Magazine, New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), and celebrity hosts like Jen Kirkman.

• Comedy podcast producer Forever Dog is launching 11 new shows with “breakout, fan-favourite comic talent”

• Ira Glass is currently on tour, and doing interviews for US newspapers. Here, he talks to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, who discovers that he likes Reply All.

• Brandon Hull thinks the future of podcasts is in podcast networks: to help with monetisation and with discovery.

• Podchaser has hired Dave Keine as its new Head of Marketing.

  
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