The UK's podcast winners from the ARIAS

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• In the UK, The Radio Academy’s ARIAS took place last night. Among the full winners, Novel for Wondery’s Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera won Best Factual - Series; Reduced Listening for Spotify’s Decode took Gold in both Best New Show and Best Specialist Music Show; The Long Time Academy won Best Independent Podcast, Mags Creative’s Life Sentence took home The Creative Innovation Award and We are VOICES won The Grassroots Award.

  
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• Chartable has clarified its future, in an email to users. The company will be focused on publisher tools and analytics, it says; it’ll be available within Megaphone, but tools and insights will also be available to all publishers, whoever they host with. The company was bought by Spotify in February.

• The world’s largest podcast host, Anchor was down for much of yesterday; from around 8.45am to 5.15pm Eastern. Publishers had problems accessing its website or posting new episodes; listeners were unable to download episodes either.

• In early April, the Apple Podcasts top ten in Ukraine was entirely full of Ukrainian podcasts for the first time. Олексій Кушнір from the iZONE Media podcast studio writes about the changes in consumption in the country.

  
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• Common Sense Media is to launch podcast content ratings for kids and family shows.

• The CyberWire has launched a new service - CISA Cybersecurity Alerts, flash security alerts from the US government. It’s a standalone feed; you’re welcome to add it to your own tech shows.

  
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• A number of public media broadcasters have joined a podcast accelerator programme for on-demand podcasting for children. It’s to be run by PRX, PBC Kids and the CPB.

• A podcast hosting and monetisation platform Pamper Me Network is apparently promising $1,000 per month for every 1,000 listeners. The company pays a signup bonus of $1 per listener, but appears to take a 50% cut of all earnings.

• Remote recording tool Riverside has launched an iPad app.

Moves and hires

• Neal Carruth is to join Freakonomics Radio as Executive Vice President and General Manager. He’d been working at NPR for almost 23 years, lately overseeing a large portfolio of NPR podcasts. In an all-staff email to NPR News, which we reproduce in part, he notes that his time at NPR has spanned nearly half the history of the organisation so far. Frank Racioppi writes about the legacy he leaves behind.

  
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• Sarah van Mosel has joined iHeartMedia as Executive Vice President of the iHeart Audience Network. She’ll also assist sales operations, publisher development and podcast slate partnerships for iHeartPodcasts. She was previously at Stitcher / SXM Media.

  
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Tips and tricks - with SoundStack

• There are virtually no branded tech podcasts, says Jar Audio. The company looks at those that exist, and suggest this is a significant opportunity.

• NPR tell us how to cram a story into a one-minute Tik Tok. It involves cute animals and narrative arcs.

Podcast News - with Lemonada Media

From Lemonada Media’s BEING Studios: BEING Trans Four transgender individuals living in Los Angeles. Hundreds of hours of tape over three months. Our crew of seasoned reality TV producers recorded live conversations, situations and intimate moments as Chloe, Jeffrey, Mariana and Sy lived them. In episode 1, you’ll hear Jeffrey confront the complexities of his medical transition, while Sy struggles with how their changing self has altered their marriage. In episode 2, you’ll meet Chloe, who’s new to LA and new to dating as a trans woman, and hear as Jeffrey struggles to make hard choices about his career. Out now: this is audio reality. This is BEING Trans.

Our Turn to Talk is new this week, tackling an alarming decline in the mental health of US teenagers. Hosted by Anastasia Vlasova, the podcast talks to affected teens, parents and mental health experts.

A mis-sent email and a guy who wants to see his brother in prison, Square Peg has just been launched - a story about bitterness, family secrets, and the things we bury in the past. The show is new from LUSID48.

SailGP, the purpose-driven global racing championship, has released the first episode of Deep Dive, a podcast covering the event. From Cue Podcasts, it will follow the event across several continents in a single championship.