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Thats about a half hour per week growth since the previous quarter.
The big takeaway from this?
Heresthe New YorkTimeson the matter.
The Good Fight
Critical Frequencybegan the year with the wind behind their backs.
And then, of course, came the pandemic.
Inopportune timing, but what can you do.
The following months saw the connection scrambling for more revenue.
They launched crowdfunding campaigns forDrilledand another show in the portfolio, Hot Take.
They leaned on their ad sales partners to find more cash.
They also started reaching back out to all sorts of other grant funders as well.
(More on that in a bit.)
And as illustrated previously, she even views grants with considerable suspicion.
Im under no illusions that grant money is somehow cleaner than corporate advertising, she said.
Foundations were basically created to launder the money of shitty rich people.
Critical Frequency was founded back in 2017.
So Westervelt and Ritchey rejected the opportunity, and continued working on the show by themselves.
The initiative came of something they had started noticing at the outset of the pandemic.
All this amounts, ultimately, to a good kind of paranoia fitting for a distressingly chaotic era.
The interview is from 2012, and its been eight whole years since Rihanna made those quotes.
The political context he was addressing was… not very recognisable in 2020, shall we say.
Numbered episode titles can indicate an out of sequence episode, as can clear labelling in the episodes description.
They do get lower downloads and Ive noticed that with my other podcasts as well.
But I think weve always wanted to feel like people are getting something extra.
So I dont remember that being intentional.
I still feel like one needs to apologise for past misdemeanours, Zaltzman said.
Not bad for a preamble to a recycled chat show.
(Just ask Luminary or Quibi.)
Curiously enough, that other company happens to be Apple.
Macmillan, of course, is no stranger to podcasts.
This project seems to be yet another expression of that on-going enterprise.
I should that this piece of news is also noteworthy for the Apple of it all.
This Macmillan-Apple collaboration, then, seems to be a fascinating piece of co-marketing more than anything else.
But his podcast work is just one of the many ways he engages with the world.
I really enjoyed speaking with Chenjerai, and Im pretty happy with how the episode turned out.
that didnt end up in the final cut.
At the end of the day, the format defines the choices.
Next time, perhaps.
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