Hot Pod newsletter “on hiatus” as Ariel Shapiro departs
Hot Pod, one of the longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to suspend publishing. Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has announced that her last week with its owner, The Verge, will be next week; Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes adds: “We won’t have a new writer in place by next week, so we’re planning to put Hot Pod on hiatus while we figure out next steps.” The publication’s writers, Ariel Shapiro, Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a vital part of the industry since 2014 and inspired Podnews to produce this daily newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication is back soon.
“In October last year, Stephen posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast network: an open call for anyone to contact him that felt they could add value to the podcast media industry. Georgie and I saw it, and we pulled together an email that summarised a little bit about us. And then you can imagine our surprise – we included a hyperlink to schedule a meeting yourself, and a couple of days later I was in a co-working space with Georgia, got an email, and I must say I screamed.” The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Stephen Bartlett’s new company Flight Studio, plus an Indian podcast app and a new sales company based in New York.