Podcast wins prestigious journalism award

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• In Australia, a podcast has won a prestigious journalism award for coverage of indigenous affairs. Blood on the Tracks, series one of Unravel from the ABC, focused on an aboriginal death in 1988. The investigation, which was also a TV program and indepth website feature, was described by judges of the Walkleys Award as compelling, revealing and instructive.

• If you own a Google Chromecast device for your TV, you can now add this to a synchronised group with your Google-powered speakers to listen to podcasts in every room in the house. Meanwhile, “OK, Google, play faster” now works for podcast listening ifyourbraincandealwithit.

• In Entrepreneur, Eric Siu posts five keys to creating subscribe-worthy podcasts, while Buzzsprout publish strategies to turn casual listeners into raving fans, and The Podcast Host covers how to name episode titles.

• Dávid Tvrdoň gives podcast tips for journalists wanting to launch their own podcasts. “If your newsroom is not doing podcasts, pitch it like an experiment or an innovation project, find allies in terms of colleagues interested in doing a podcast with you and start slowly building your audience.”

Stats and data

• Audiobip, a Spanish podcast host, has done a survey about advertising in podcasting. 53% of the listeners surveyed are fine with “good” advertising within podcasts. Only 6% of listeners don’t like it.

Podcasts

Gotham Chopra, host of Why Sports Matter, picks stories with “heart” and “with real layers”, according to this profile. (Cadence13 / ART19)

Smark to Death is a professional wrestling podcast with a heavy focus on both live interaction and fan interaction offline. “Our reviews have reflected that we are a listener friendly podcast and inviting to said listeners,” they tell us.

Many podcasters seem to turn into private investigators when producing a true crime podcast. It’s only fitting that a Tennessee private investigator has turned into a podcaster. Nashville Public Radio profiles Sheila Wysocki, who is hosting a podcast called Without Warning

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