

Jeremy Gilbert and Jarrod Dicker A call for collaboration between storytelling and tech Joni Deutsch Podcasting unsilences the silentĬhrista Scharfenberg It’s time to make journalism a field that supports and respects women Rachel Glickhouse Journalists get left behind in the industry’s declineĮrnie Smith The death of the industry fad objectivity game endsĬarrie Brown-Smith Engaged journalism: It’s finally happeningĪlana Levinson Brand-backed media gets another look Siguru Wahutu Western journalists, learn from your African peers Irving Washington Leadership isn’t something you learn on the job Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper Power to the people (on your audience team) Nico Gendron Make better products if you want to reach Gen Z Rachel Schallom The value of push alerts goes beyond open rates Joanne McNeil A return to blogs (finally? sort of?) Kristen Muller The year we operationalize community engagement Talia Stroud The work of reconnecting starts November 4 Davis Know the context your journalism is operating within Darr All that campaign cash will make the media’s problems worse Sonali Prasad Climate change storytelling gets multidimensionalīill Adair A Nobel Prize, a Brad Pitt film, and a Taylor Swift song Moreno Cruz Osório In Brazil, collaboration in a time of state attacksīeena Raghavendran The year of the local engagement reporter

Tom Glaisyer Journalism can emerge newly vibrant and powerful Juleyka Lantigua A changing industry amps up podcasters’ ambitionsĪnthony Nadler Clash of Clans: Election Edition Margarita Noriega The platforms try to figure out what to do with single-subject newsrooms Jim Brady We’ll complain about other people living in bubbles while ignoring our own Since Spotify’s acquisition of Gimlet Media closed, the Daily Drive list has featured Gimlet podcasts almost to the exclusion of all other podcasts, which raises the big debate that will arise when Spotify News launches: Will it be biased in favor of its own products? (Answer: Yes, it will be.) Expect, therefore, some tough questions to be put to Gimlet’s Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber in 2020.Ĭristina Kim Public media stops trying to serve “everybody”Ĭindy Royal Prepare media students for skills, not job titles

Spotify has already tested these waters with its Daily Drive product, a playlist designed for car commuters that includes both news and music. But Apple doesn’t allow such playlists, giving Spotify a clear advantage in the space. It would just be a curated playlist of individual podcast episodes, much as Spotify already puts together curated playlists of music. To that end, they’re going to launch something that radio has had for decades but that has never existed in podcasting format: a simple news channel. Podcasts are becoming a huge business now, and Spotify is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into trying to topple Apple as the big dog in the space. My prediction is that Spotify will launch a news channel.
