Best Podcasts of 2023

Media never dies, it only morphs. The old way can only be understood as “compression” — the logical consequence of filtering ideas and people and stories through a tightly constrained broadcast feeding tube. What comes out feels like baby food. The late night talk format will surely be a casualty of media’s democratic revolution. Podcasts and their... See more

The audience has always been in control. It is a fickle beast, but not an inscrutable one. You only need to spend some time with them, learning from them, and their secrets become a little less mysterious. It is this arcane knowledge that can turn your podcast, an audio enclosure delivered by RSS syndication, into a show, a thing people care about

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Podcasting is a medium made for this kind of storytelling; if journalism is, as someone once said, “the first draft of history”, then maybe podcasting is the second. As a medium, it has a wider intellectual bandwidth than broadcasting, which has to address mass audiences, whereas podcasting can serve niche interests and make more assumptions about ... See more

three themes will emerge: innovation in the content format, the evolution of the business model, and the growing ubiquity of audio.