NPR is in the midst of deep layoffs amid a $30 million budget shortfall, and a number of its podcasts are getting the axe. Invisibilia, Rough Translation, Louder Than a Riot, and Everyone and Their Mom are stopping production, though network spokesperson Isabel Lara said that “we are exploring ways this work can continue in other forms.”
In the wake of the Joe Rogan controversy last year, Spotify tried to smooth things over with a $100 million diversity fund. According to Bloomberg, the company has fulfilled less than 10% of that commitment so far.
It’s new Snapdragon processor day everyone! The Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 is the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, and is destined for phones costing between $400 and $600.
AnandTech has a thorough breakdown of all the changes, but the headline improvements are an up to 50 percent boost to CPU performance, and a GPU that’s two times faster.
After the company laid off 8 percent of staff earlier this week, SiriusXM has named Team Coco president Adam Sachs as its new head of podcasting and entertainment. I have more on the appointment and Sachs’ programming philosophy in today’s Hot Pod Insider.
And CEO Daniel Ek is already teasing the news: a “completely redesigned” home feed. Maybe this is the rumored TikTok-style approach we keep hearing about.
The event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. We’ll be reporting back with all the news.
You want to say something really insightful, and you want to get people excited for the next episode of your podcast. You do not, generally, want to be dealing with what these two dealt with. I’m just impressed they got the audio they needed.
The chaos continues inside Twitter 2.0 as employees worry about what will break, what will get them fired, and what will get them busted by the FTC.
The company has announced its next “Stream On” event, where it plans to share updates on “creator tools, features, and programming.” The last event, in 2021, was used to lay out Spotify’s business vision in podcasting, music, and other arenas.
As my colleague Chris Welch reminded me, “This is where they announced HiFi!” Here’s hoping it actually arrives this time.
