Listening to podcasts is a personal passion. As a talent booker and media producer, they play a big role in my professional life, as well, which is why narrowing down a year-end, best-of list is such ...

After years of being mostly ignored by the larger media apparatus, the podcast-to-television pipeline was fully operational in 2022. So many podcasts (many of them named in this very year-end list ...

It’s the end of the year, which means that every outlet that covers culture is putting out their best-of-year lists. It’s a great way to recap the year that was, and it also gives people an excuse to ...

It was a big year for podcasts—another in a long string of them. These days, it takes a lot to stand out in the medium’s sea of fantastic storytelling, original reporting, and comedy delights...and I ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about a piece from Nicholas Quah in Vulture this fall about how podcasting had failed to produce a zeitgeisty, water-cooler show since the heights of “Serial,” when it seemed ...

“Podcasting Is Just Radio Now,” claimed pod critic Nick Quah in New York magazine back in September. The piece bemoaned what Quah diagnosed as a growing lack of cultural and financial investment in ...

The age of podcasting has grown to new heights over the past few years. There was a time when podcasting was a novelty, restricted to apps on tablets or cellphones where you would download one or two ...

Siobhan McHugh gave a masterclass in narrative podcasting to the Sydney Writers Festival 2022, which was attended by Sue-Lin Wong, host of The Prince. The podcaster Audrey Gillan is featured in McHugh ...

With podcasts conquering not just car dashboards, but earbuds and all points in between, it’s amazing anyone has time for actual, real life. In a post-COVID cocoon, those who crave music business ...

Lend me an ear! The surge in podcasting continued apace this year, yielding a bumper crop of top-shelf audio programming. Variety staff picked 20 podcasts — spanning drama, comedy, true crime and ...

Hosted by Zayd Dohrn, this podcast takes listeners back to the 1970s when the host's parents, along with their friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States. They ...