Dave Lee

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What's a podcast?

In an age of content blurring across multiple platforms at once, Ashley Carmen on industry efforts to define what exactly constitutes a "podcast":

Here’s where the group ended up: “A podcast is an on-demand show rooted in the spoken word and fully intelligible as audio. Typically episodic and conversational, podcasts cover wide-ranging themes and formats. They are accessed as audio or video via open RSS feeds and other distribution methods.”

A shorter version boils down to: “If it works with your eyes closed, it’s a podcast.”

Finally, Podcasting Has a Definitionbloomberg.comAfter months of secret meetings, a group of industry heavyweights are releasing a white paper codifying new podcasting frameworks

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In the AI age, could curators become king again? Columbia Journalism Review on a fresh crop of print (!!) magazines geared at overwhelmed young people.

This is exactly what Cuqui is trying to bring back. “It’s designed to get young people back into a curated editorial space, away from the algorithm,” Brittney McNamara, the magazine’s features editor, told me, “and back into something that reflects their culture and their universe.”

For teens, a print renaissance might be afoot.cjr.orgFor teens, a print renaissance might be afoot.

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We would use different words

Colby Hall in Mediaite on how we've stopped being stunned by the batshit cabinet meetings hosted by President Trump, one of which was held on Thursday and lasted 98 minutes. Hall:

Here’s what I keep coming back to: if a transcript from this meeting came from the government of Brazil — or Hungary, or any country we cover from a comfortable critical distance — we would not file it as a cabinet meeting. We would write about it as a document. We would ask what it reveals about the man producing it and the institution that has formed around him. We would use different words.

But we don’t use different words for Trump. We stopped a long time ago, so gradually that I’m not sure anyone made a conscious decision to stop. It just became the way the job gets done.

And I say “we” deliberately, because Mediaite runs the clips too. We package the highlights. We write the posts. I’ve written more of them than I care to admit, and I’ll probably write more, as the traffic they generate is part of what keeps the lights on here. So I’m not throwing stones from outside the house. I live in this house. That’s actually why it bothers me.

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