Facebook hits the mute button on podcasts with music

• Got licensed commercial music on your podcast? Facebook will edit it out, muting your show instead, according to Christina Szeman. She claims to pay licensing fees for the music she uses on her podcast, but says Facebook automatically mutes any copyright music, irrespective of the licenses she has bought.

• The shortlists have been announced for The Sports Podcasts Awards 2022; 13 countries are represented. You can register to be a judge on the awards website.

• Can you help? A PhD student at the University of York, working with BBC R&D, is conducting a survey to understand how podcast listening experiences are influenced by the environmental context in which they are consumed. You can take part here.

• RØDE has announced the VideoMic GO II, an on-camera microphone that adds USB-C output, and a new acoustic design, to their original shotgun model.

  
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• AdLarge has signed a partnership with G Networks for ad sales.

• Podtrac has added multi-user accounts and data export capabilities.

• Corinna Bellizzi and Julie Lokun have launched Femcasters, a community dedicated to amplifying female voices worldwide.

• The Library of Congress has acquired the full 40-year body of work from audio documentary producers The Kitchen Sisters.

• Podcast producer Ella Watts has been working with the BBC; Beyond Podcasting interviews her about audio fiction and the pandemic … and if you’re writing fiction podcasts, Shore Scripts has a Fiction Podcast Contest, where you could get $5000 to produce a pilot episode, and $1000 cash. This year’s final deadline is Jan 21: it’s $55 to enter.

  
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• “I think it’s telling how many media employees choose not to do podcast projects with the media companies that employ them.” Matt Deegan looks at 2022 in podcasting; suggesting it’s about troubleshooting and consolidating.

• Hot Docs has announced the full 2022 Hot Docs Podcast Festival program. The event was to be a hybrid event, but it’s now a virtual event, thanks Omicron.

• One of the oldest podcasts in the world, For Immediate Release with Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz, has joined the Marketing Podcast Network. The podcast also now has new, more frequent, short shows.

Moves and hires - with Pod People

• Amanda Nazereno has been hired as Director of Education at The Podcast Academy. She was selected for Spotify’s first Sound Up! cohort, and has been podcasting since July 2018.

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• Nick Harnett is Acast’s new PR and Marketing Manager for UK and Ireland.

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• Audie Cornish, who left NPR’s All Things Considered last week, is to join CNN. She’ll be podcasting and presenting a weekly show on CNN+.

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• Anna Martin will become the new host of Modern Love from The New York Times. She joined The Times last year, and was with Pop-Up Magazine, This American Life and The Moth.

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• Elise Bergerson has joined Verve Talent and Literary Agency as a podcast agent. She’d worked for This American Life, Serial Productions and the S-Town Podcast, before consultancy work.

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• Goli Sheikholeslami is to leave her role as CEO of NYPR, the owners of WNYC, to be the new CEO of Politico. NYPR’s interim CEO will be Cynthia King Vance, who’s been involved on the Board since 2004.

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Tips and tricks - with Podpage

• Jen Thorpe writes about how they use Twitter effectively for their Shattered Soulstone podcast. It’s particularly good for discovering what to focus on next, they write.

Podcast News - with Quill

Produced by Quill: C Suite Join Claudette McGowan, TD Bank’s Global Executive Officer for Cyber Security, as she explores how cyber-attacks happen and what we can do to avoid them. From phishing schemes to robocalls, Claudette meets with C Suite leaders to discuss cyber challenges and ways to help people become more protected.

Say Their Name returns for a second season, and focuses on the stories of Black individuals who were assaulted and killed by police, with an emphasis on the women who often get overlooked. The first episode in the series, now live, marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol with a look back at Miriam Carey. - read more

Any economics podcast would probably aspire to getting the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, as a guest. Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future explores the future of the economy through the prism of jobs - and Sunak joins host Jimmy McLouglin, a former UK political advisor to former Prime Minister Teresa May, and current Prime Minister (just), Boris Johnson.

Violating Community Guidelines with Brittany Broski and Sarah Schauer is new this week from Studio71. From firearm sales on Facebook Marketplace to AI Influencers and deep fakes on Instagram and TikTok, this podcast will cover off beat topics that have you asking, “is this allowed?” but more importantly, “is this even legal?

Disgraceland returns for a new season today, starting with a premiere episode focused on Taylor Swift’s stalkers, vanishing masters, love letters and more. The show is on Amazon Music, with selected shows also released via RSS, and claims it’s the the number one most downloaded music podcast in the world. - read more