I’m just back from a conference in Toronto hanging out with about 4,000 anthropologists, give or take. I feel like I just crashed into a foreign country and I don’t mean Canada. Stay tuned for field notes and interviews from people trying to understand the places they’re from or the homes they fled, the companies they work for or the hospitals that treat them (yes, we’ll even have anthropologists on the doctor’s table). Subscribe here - free or paid - for stories that will try to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange, or, failing that, to make square things cool.
Ben Brock’s article says it well. NPR stations are best equipped to do the best podcasting work, with professional voice journalists like yourself, top of the line equipment, editors and sound engineers. Where are the critical reviewers? Where is the interest from advertisers? I live in Europe and am very happy to be able to avoid a lot of the advertising when I listen to US-based podcasts, but would gladly support my favorite shows by subscribing. I supported Rough Translation with earmarked donations as well, and am devastated that it no longer exists. Someone has to figure out the business side of things in order to bring the best podcasts to ‘niche’ audiences.
Hi Gregory, can you post the link to "thoughtful read" link from Ben Brock? The one currently there in the newsletter is going to the TBH podcast instead -- which I plan to check out as well.
I think about this a lot and I really do think that Americans think everything not to do with the US of A is too “niche.”
Ben Brock’s article says it well. NPR stations are best equipped to do the best podcasting work, with professional voice journalists like yourself, top of the line equipment, editors and sound engineers. Where are the critical reviewers? Where is the interest from advertisers? I live in Europe and am very happy to be able to avoid a lot of the advertising when I listen to US-based podcasts, but would gladly support my favorite shows by subscribing. I supported Rough Translation with earmarked donations as well, and am devastated that it no longer exists. Someone has to figure out the business side of things in order to bring the best podcasts to ‘niche’ audiences.
How strange, an international podcast seems like the opposite of niche!
Hi Gregory, can you post the link to "thoughtful read" link from Ben Brock? The one currently there in the newsletter is going to the TBH podcast instead -- which I plan to check out as well.