Several major podcast publishers have had layoffs, and "Amazon, SiriusXM, NPR and Spotify have all curbed podcast budgets in the last year, sometimes allowing expensive deals to sunset or canceling others before they closed." As one analyst put it, "The dumb money era is over." - The New York Times
Dallas County’s population is 40% Hispanic/Latino (1.05 million people) and 34% of residents speak Spanish at home, according to 2020 census data (though Latinos were also heavily undercounted in that census). - NiemanLab
The connection between love interests, once a central element of the rom-com, has in recent years seemed secondary at best; now it’s actually plausible that someone might try to add it in post. - The New Yorker
"More than a dozen income tax officials first entered BBC newsrooms (in Delhi and Mumbai) early Tuesday, seizing accounts, financial documents, and phones of BBC employees. ... The searches came weeks after the BBC aired ... India: The Modi Question, (which) examined Modi's role in anti-Muslim riots ... in Gujarat in 2002." - NPR
The time is right to revisit and revise the Public Broadcasting Act. A revised and reauthorized act would identify and direct resources to needs that contemporary telecom content providers are not meeting and adjust the allocation of federal appropriations. - Current
The reason the Babel story matters is not that it happened once but that it happens over and over: We Babelize and de-Babelize. The internet is an engine of both processes. - Wired
"The chairman is supposed to maintain the independence of the BBC," observed one insider about Richard Sharp, "but has said publicly it has a liberal bias while facilitating loans to the Prime Minister" — Boris Johnson, who appointed Sharp — "and eating chop suey at Chequers" (Britain's Camp David). - The New Statesman (UK)
"Interviews with 20 people with direct knowledge of events at WVPB indicate Amelia Ferrell Knisely's involuntary departure from her position as a part-time reporter was not an aberration but part of a years-long pattern of mounting pressure on the station from Gov. Jim Justice's administration and some state legislators." - NPR
Music, ephemeral in its power over our emotions, is a notoriously demanding discipline, so this film presents exciting possibilities for an exploration of the dark sides of the “cult of genius.” - The Conversation
What happens to the subjects of these series years later - and what about when the series get bought by streaming services, and everything is stirred up again? There's a documentary about that. - The Observer (UK)
The Netflix series My Dad the Bounty Hunter's Patrick Harpin: "The theme park ... was a way that kids have an entry point to understanding . I’m laughing, I’m having fun, but this is ridiculously horrible, what is doing. It’s a dark reveal." - Los Angeles Times
All but one of the documentaries (though that one's the frontrunner) debuted at Sundance 2022 - "a testament to just how vital the fest is to the nonfiction genre." - Variety
And when we say stink, we mean absolutely suck. For one thing - the smallest thing, perhaps - why would you call something that manages film libraries TV? - Fast Company
Try this truck slash movie theatre first! No, really. In England, "A 100-seater cinema in the back of a lorry has opened in a town that has not had a picture house for decades" - to see if the town is ready for a permanent cinema. - BBC
Yes, you do know that Moonlight won a few years ago - that's accurate. But let's talk about how the awards evolved, the history of the statue, and so much more. - Variety
