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Happy Africa Podcast Day, the

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latest from PodNews.net with critically acclaimed, highly

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addictive CBC podcasts.

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Sunday is Africa Podcast Day 2023. You can celebrate with

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digital graphics and use the hashtag #AfricaPodcastDay 2023

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to tag those posts. And you can

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follow Afri Pods on Twitter to watch a live stream with

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panels and advice all day. In

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addition, the Africa Media Festival is Tuesday and Wednesday in Nai

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robi. Speaking in the PodNews Weekly

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Review this week, novels founder Sean Glenn says that

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podcasting is in good shape even after the advertising

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downturn. You can hear that interview in

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full in the PodNews Weekly

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Review. You'll find it in the Fountain app and wherever

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you get your podcasts.

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About 20% of episodes in Steve

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Bannon's War Room podcast contain false, misleading,

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or unsubstantiated statements.

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According to new research from the Brookings Institute,

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it was reported by The New York Times today. Axios is the

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latest to claim that podcasting is facing an identity crisis.

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Radio Days North America has announced its first set of

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speakers, including our editor James Crid land. The event is in Toronto

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and is in early June. And part of Canadian Music Week.

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Former TV late night host Craig Ferguson is to do a podcast

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with iHeart Media. PodText

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is one of a slew of new services that searches within

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podcast transcripts and allows you

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to share clips. On Y Combinator

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, the author adds, "My employer will fire me if they ever

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find out about this project."

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And, "First Look Deals" emerge

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in podcasting, says Deadline,

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reporting that "First Look Deals" common in TV and film

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are coming to podcasting, in a

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story about campsite media

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signing three "First Look Deals

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." They're hardly new to our industry, though. Among others,

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PodNews has covered "First Look Deals" between Sky & Tortoise,

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Audible & First Produce, Serious Exem and Audio Up, QDOS

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and What's The Story, UCP Media

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and iHeart, Parkast and Noiser, Goldfinch and Stacken

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off. And those last two were

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reported in Deadline.

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In People News, Seb Renne has been hired as executive head

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for Listener Commercial. He'll drive the commercial strategy

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for the Australian Radio and Podcast app. The producer and

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co-host of Ear Hustle, Rahsaan New York

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Thomas, has been released from prison. Matt Medeiros started

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a new role this week as WordPress community evangelist

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for Gravity Forms. He had been

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with Castos. This podcast is sponsored by C

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BC Podcasts. The Africa vs

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America is a new podcast from

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them. It chronicles Black Liber

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ation Organization Move and how

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Philadelphia came to drop a bomb

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on its own citizens. The Africa

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vs America is available wherever you get your podcasts.

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And that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the

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stories and subscribe, we're at podnews.net.

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