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September 26, 2024:
September 18, 2024:
    Hyperfixed is new from Alex Goldman today - a brand new show from the co-producer of Reply All. If you've got a problem, Alex is here to solve it, he says - it's new from Radiotopia from PRX.
September 12, 2024:
    Alex Goldman said goodbye from Gimlet’s Reply All in June 2022 - but he’s back with a brand new show, as an independent podcaster. Hyperfixed will be released next week, working with Radiotopia from PRX. "This time, I'm diving even deeper and looking into the systems, sometimes hidden and sometimes obvious, that create all types of problems in our lives. If you've got a problem, I’ve got the obsession needed to solve it."
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August 22, 2022:
    Mumbai Crime has joined Radiotopia, and releases a new season today based on the novel that inspired the film "Slumdog Millionaire". The show was previously released as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4 in the UK.
August 12, 2022:
    Legal trouble #2: Oprah Winfrey's company has filed a lawsuit against fan podcast Oprahdemics from Radiotopia. The filing claims that Oprah's trademarks are being misused, and that its an unauthorized attempt by the hosts to capitalise from “The Oprah Effect.” Perhaps all fan podcasts may be on dubious legal territory, given that they need to use trademarked names to make it obvious what they're about.
June 24, 2022:
June 2, 2022:
    Oldest Podcast Guest Corner: In this hitherto light-hearted feature this week we have arrived at a 105 year-old guest who we thought might be the oldest podcast guest. A producer for Radiotopia's Radio Diaries has been in touch, pointing out that the show recorded 107 year-old Joe Newman in 2020. In an email entitled "Fact Check", we were told our feature was "inaccurate" and a correction was demanded. Here it is, oh bringer of dark clouds and extinguisher of sunlight and fun.
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December 9, 2020:
    Maggie Taylor, formerly of Radiotopia and PRX, is to join Pushkin Industries as Marketing Director. She'd been consulting for the company for the past two years, and starts January 15.
October 23, 2020:
    The Allusionist has left PRX's Radiotopia, with host Helen Zaltzman citing a lack of racial diversity at the organisation. "I have raised this fact repeatedly, recommended existing shows or potential showmakers to approach, questioned the excuses given for why the line-up stayed very white - small capacity and limited resources and insufficient money were frequently cited. So I offered money. And now, in case it makes more space and resources available, I’m removing myself." The Bugle, hosted by her brother Andy Zaltzman, left Radiotopia early last year.
October 7, 2020:
September 30, 2020:
    Appearances is new from Radiotopia and Mermaid Palace - "a one woman audio show that straddles the line between fiction and truth".
August 28, 2020:
    Podcast Day Online takes place on October 26: a virtual version of the popular cross-Europe podcast event. Speakers include Earlonne Woods from Ear Hustle, Julie Shapiro from Radiotopia, Steve Pratt of Pacific Content, and our Editor. Want money off? Use this code: PODONLINE20
March 6, 2020:
February 11, 2020:
    Over the Road is a podcast telling stories of long-haul truckers - all of whom have plenty of time to listen to podcasts. There's a difference between a ‘bedbugger’ and a ‘dock-bumper,’ we're told, and this podcast will probably help with that. (Overdrive Magazine / Radiotopia / PRX)
January 23, 2020:
    Podcast app Pocket Casts has received an upgrade. Version 7.7 offers curated lists ("working with well-known podcasters and thought leaders"), and highlights from individual podcast networks including WNYC, Wondery and Radiotopia. Interested publishers should look here for more detail.
September 5, 2019:
August 27, 2019:
    Adult ISH returns for season 2 - the culture and advice podcast for young and young-at-heart listeners returns with candid discussions about birth control, sexual health and why it’s important to know your medical rights in the #MeToo era. (YR Media / Radiotopia)
August 2, 2019:
July 31, 2019:
    Radiotopia is adding two new podcasts next month. They've acquired AdultISH for its second season, and unveil Passenger List, a fictional mystery thriller about a plane that disappears with 256 passengers on board.
April 29, 2019:
April 16, 2019:
    The Bugle - the audio newspaper for a visual world - has moved to Entale, using the company's new RSS transfer feature. The podcast used to be part of Radiotopia, but has recently attempted to gain even more independence, much like the country of Andy Zaltzman, the main host. (Entale)
March 20, 2019:
    The Audiocraft Podcast Festival (Sydney NSW, Australia: May 31 - June 2) has announced its initial lineup, promising Avery Trufelman (99% Invisible, Radiotopia), Jonathan Zenti (Voxnest/Meat), Natalie Tulloch (Spotify, NYC), Mark Pesce (The Next Billion Seconds, PodcastOne), Travis De Vries (Broriginals), Stephanie Van Schilt (Sisteria) and Tim Roxburgh (Unravel, ABC) + others. Tickets here.
November 1, 2018:
August 16, 2018:
    Google Podcasts also has a donate button for some non-profits including NPR and Radiotopia; but it's currently a hard-coded pilot.
July 17, 2018:
    Radiotopia launch Everything is alive today, interviewing inanimate objects about their daily life.
June 22, 2018:
    RadioPublic is running an equity crowdfunding campaign. The pitch contains some good data about RadioPublic use. In an email to Podnews, CEO Jake Shapiro says this is "something I've been looking for a long while and super excited about. Ever since our first Kickstarter in 2014 for Radiotopia I've wanted to find new ways to channel that democratized marketing/engagement/community energy into each level up in our enterprise."
June 7, 2018:
    An interesting promotional concept: Kaitlin Prest (The Heart/Radiotopia) is working on a new CBC podcast for release in September. She's giving the audience a separate and stand-alone glimpse into the world of the story, via email, starting today. Podnews understands that her podcast is a love story, and these early dispatches will deepen and complicate your understanding of the protagonist.
June 1, 2018:
    Radiotopia announced three new shows: ZigZag documents the process of two friends (Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant) starting a media company while trying not to simultaneously become bad mothers, bankrupt themselves, or destroy their wonderful creative partnership; Everything is Alive, an interview show in which all of the subjects are inanimate objects; and, within Radiotopa's Showcase feed, The Great God of Depression, a true story of a brilliant physician, a literary genius and madness in America.
May 30, 2018:
May 21, 2018:
    Radiotopia just wrapped up its East Coast tour. Here's a writeup.
May 18, 2018:
May 8, 2018:
    Davia Nelson and Roman Mars chatted to WABE about podcasting and Radiotopia Live.
April 12, 2018:
    Radiotopia is live along the East Coast of the US next month: in Atlanta, Durham, Washington, New York and Boston. Dates and venues are in our events section.
February 27, 2018:
    Also in Canada, the CBC have announced they're making something with Kaitlin Prest (Radiotopia, The Heart). They've released a strange video involving candles. Whatever it is comes out in September. They'll tell us more in June.
February 26, 2018:
    Radiotopia is planning an East Coast Tour in May bringing some of your favourite podcasts to a city near you. (Assuming your favourite podcasts are those made by Radiotopia, and you live on the East Coast, of course).
January 31, 2018:
    Radiotopia's Criminal team are launching a new podcast on Valentine's Day, and it's all about love. This is Love "tells stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other". There's a trailer up now at the website.
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January 4, 2018:
    The US freesheet Metro writes a piece exploring the success of true crime podcasts, focusing on Radiotopia's Criminal and Wondery's Hollywood & Crime. "I am pleasantly surprised that podcasts like this show do as well as they do," says H&C's Larry Brand, "because we are so attuned to visual images."
November 10, 2017:
    Radiotopia's Julie Shapiro writes for Current, arguing that podcasting should stay true to the public media system's goals.
November 6, 2017:
October 20, 2017:
    If you're looking for "rigorous in-depth quality criticism of narrative podcasts and radio documentaries" then you probably want RadioDoc Review, which has been going since 2013. Founder Siobhán McHugh says "I founded RDR in 2013 to bring top international audio producers together with academics in order to develop (a) a canon of the best works to review and (b) a sophisticated understanding of audio storytelling, with critiques to rival those for film." An international board includes folk from Radiotopia, the Australian ABC, and UK indies. You might start with their rationale in this editorial.
August 3, 2017:
July 7, 2017:
    Behind the scenes of Radiotopia's Criminal podcast. "We’re mindful of efficiency because we’re asking listeners to devote their full attention to these stories."
June 15, 2017:
    A new Radiotopia podcast, Ear Hustle, is covered by Quartz. The podcast is produced by prison inmates. (Of note: there's a UK radio station produced by prison inmates, but they cannot allow their audio to be heard outside the prison due to the potential security issues caused by coded messages for outside ears.)

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