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Long before the podcast boom, Howard Stern built the template for intimate, wide-ranging interviews

He fused raunch, confession and marathon interviews into must-hear audio, years before podcasting became a media powerhouse

February 17, 2026

Amaris Castillo

The Washington Post lays off a third of its staff

The cuts affected nearly all corners of the newsroom and include the closures of the sports and books desks and several foreign bureaus

February 4, 2026

‘Hit the pavement, talk to strangers, listen:’ 5 lessons from great storytelling

This season of the ‘WriteLane’ podcast featured 2025 Poynter Journalism Prize winners

December 30, 2025

Opinion | Top Democrat files complaint over “60 Minutes” interview with President Trump

Jamie Raskin wrote to CBS's ombudsman, a role created in an agreement with FCC during Paramount merger to address 'media bias'

December 4, 2025

Opinion | Ready for it? Taylor Swift could set a podcast record

Swift’s first appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce’s ‘New Heights’ podcast has fans and industry watchers predicting a record-breaking debut

August 13, 2025

Serial’s runaway success launched podcasts into the mainstream

The true crime podcast rewrote the playbook on what successful audio storytelling sounded like and who could produce it

May 13, 2025

Nicole Slaughter Graham

After the first ‘podcast election,’ the medium is likely to continue playing a role in future campaign cycles

‘It would be a mistake for future campaigns to ignore or neglect podcasting as a vehicle for their candidates’

November 7, 2024

Opinion | What do Harris and Trump gain from all these podcast appearances?

The candidates have appeared on popular shows hosted by Theo Von and Alex Cooper, among others. They offer something different than traditional news.

October 24, 2024

3 things to know about Anderson Cooper and his podcast about grief before season two

‘I want to talk to other people who have experienced loss as well to hear what they've learned and how they survived.’

November 17, 2023

Opinion | The New York Times enters the podcast app business at a ‘weird time’

A new subscriber-only app curates all of the Times' audio journalism in one place. But who's it for?

May 18, 2023

‘Suave’ – a podcast from Futuro Media and PRX – wins Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting

‘This is not just a win for me, or Maria, and the whole Futuro production team. This is a win for criminal justice reform’

May 9, 2022

Amaris Castillo

Opinion | In a vulnerable media economy, journalists are demanding ownership of their work

Intellectual property ownership is the path to stability in an unstable media environment

April 12, 2022

Alex Sujong Laughlin

Thinking both ways: What podcasts are teaching traditional text reporters

Scott Fowler waited years for this moment: a chance to question the incarcerated "hit man" in a…

October 18, 2018

Today’s WriteLane podcast: Music and storytelling go hand in hand

Today’s WriteLane is a follow-up to last week’s podcast, where we discussed drawing inspiration from…

March 7, 2018

Todays WriteLane podcast: Finding inspiration from songwriters

Today’s WriteLane is about drawing inspiration from songwriters. The weekly podcast features Lane DeGregory, a…

March 2, 2018

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