CBC's daily podcast, Front Burner, launches Monday

• In Canada, the CBC launches its daily news podcast on Monday. Called Front Burner, it is hosted by Jayme Poisson, as we reported on 1 Aug. Rogers has been running The Big Story as a daily news podcast since June; and Corus’s weekly This is Why launched at a similar time.

• What’s next for podcasting? Paid subscriptions and exclusive content, thinks Eric Peckham of TechCrunch. He notes that the successful Chinese podcast model is mainly funded in this way.

• Bitplatter have posted analysis of discussions about major retail brands in podcasts. Amazon is the clear #1; the rest are bricks and mortar stores.

• The Cossío Awards, a journalism prize in Spain, is now recognising podcasts as a valid entry format.

  
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• Colombian podcasts don’t need help: they need money, and journalism in general - so says Carolina Guerrero from Radio Ambulante.

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• iHeartRadio’s Podcasting Awards - Jeffrey Cranor, co-writer for Welcome to Night Vale, has views. As do many indie podcasters in Facebook groups.

• Google Podcasts broke for some users. This happened to your Editor, too, who is opted-in to the beta version of the Google app. To fix it, I de-registered from the beta version of the app, and reinstalled it. (Beta versions include bugs: that’s kind of the point).

• New York Public Media (who own WNYC) has a new Chief Operating Officer, Depelsha McGruder. She joins from MTV and BET Networks, and is a former on-air reporter.

• Event: November 27, Toronto ON, Canada: The future of podcasting

  
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Podcasts

Instant Message is a new weekly tech podcast from The Wall Street Journal. It’s hosted by WSJ journalists David Pierce, Joanna Stern and Christopher Mims. (Megaphone)

Earbud Theater's latest release, “Tales from the dead of night”, is a 'creepshow style anthology perfect for the Halloween season’. (Libsyn)

Forever Ago is a history show for the whole family, launching November 8. Joy Dolo, an Ivey Award-winning Twin Cities actor, will lead each episode along with a new kid co-host each week, thinking critically about past events. (Brains On! / American Public Media)

Listicles

• 5 Great Plane Ride Podcasts (Wil Williams)