I hope you all had a superb weekend. I actually wasn’t huddled in a ball of tension concerning the very cloth of girls’s rights within the US being stripped away, no sir.
On that word, there’s a lot occurring within the audio world in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Podcasters are organizing, Slate is doing a stunt campaign in areas the place abortion is now restricted, and Howard Stern is working for president, possibly.
But first, a really particular Hot Pod announcement (elegant transition, proper?)
Hot Pod Summit goes Hollywood
Big information: we’re bringing Hot Pod Summit to Los Angeles. On November third at KCRW, we’ll have a day of conversations about how the podcasting business is being formed by West Coast tech giants and changing into more and more entwined with legacy Hollywood establishments. The summit is being held in collaboration with work x work and On Air Fest LA, which runs from November third to fifth, and is being co-presented by KCRW. I’m excited to nerd out on audio, meet a few of you guys IRL, and, dare I say, get slightly tan?
We’ll preserve you posted on the lineup and different particulars as they grow to be accessible. Hope to see you there!
Podcasters manage pre-roll campaign for abortion rights
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, dozens of podcasters are banding collectively to file and place pre-roll messages advocating for abortion rights. Started by EarBuds Podcast Collective founder Arielle Nissenblatt, the campaign has managed to get some large reveals on board, together with My Favorite Murder and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
Nissenblatt collaborated with writers and producers to provide you with totally different script templates to suit totally different hosts’ wants (30-second vs. 60-second, US-based vs. worldwide) and compiled hyperlinks to abortion assets that podcasters might put of their present notes. The campaign additionally enlisted voice actor and podcaster Matt Cundill to file a number of totally different variations that reveals can place if they don’t need to file it themselves.
When the choice was introduced, “my first thought was, like, how will podcasters want to uniquely react to this?” Nissenblatt informed Hot Pod. “They can offer resources, they can offer support, they can spread the message, and we can come at it from a unified place.”
So far, not less than three dozen reveals have participated within the campaign. Nissenblatt says that Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from My Favorite Murder leaping on board did lots to encourage different podcasters to do the identical. Other large names which have expressed curiosity in becoming a member of embody Alex Steed from You Are Good and Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante from The Bechdel Cast.
Slate erects billboards selling Slow Burn in states with set off legal guidelines
Slate is launching a provocative new campaign to advertise its newest season of Slow Burn, which tells the story of Shirley Wheeler, the primary girl convicted of manslaughter for getting an abortion. The outlet has positioned billboards in states that now have a few of the strictest abortion legal guidelines within the nation urging passersby to “Defend Shirley Wheeler.”
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The campaign’s URL, defendshirleywheeler.com, redirects to Slow Burn’s present web page. The billboards have been positioned in Jackson, Mississippi; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Phoenix, Arizona; Boise, Idaho; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Daytona Beach, Florida, the place Wheeler lived when she received her abortion. It’s a wise (if dystopian!!) campaign that ought to seize consideration in these areas, for higher or worse.
Howard Stern 4 Prez
Because there hasn’t been sufficient chaos up to now week, radio star Howard Stern has responded to the abortion ruling by saying he’ll actually, truly most likely run for president in 2024. “If I do run for president, and I’m not fucking around, I’m really thinking about it,” he stated on his SiriusXM present Monday, “as soon as I become president, you’re gonna get five new Supreme Court justices that are going to overturn all this bullshit.”
Another pillar of the Stern platform: “one vote, one person, no more of this Electoral College, I’m getting rid of it.” That can be good, if legally unimaginable.
If he did step into the fray, it wouldn’t be Stern’s first try at working for workplace. He ran for governor of New York in 1994 till he dropped out as a result of he refused to reveal his private funds. He might not have Mike Bloomberg cash, however bringing in $85 million a 12 months, Stern has loads of money to play with if he needed to run (or not less than do some type of stunt campaign). Either manner, President Biden will not be more likely to be happy.
SCOTUS gained’t rewrite defamation regulation (however they are saying quite a lot of issues!!!)
On Monday, the Supreme Court turned down a petition to listen to a case by which an evangelical Christian ministry accused the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of falsely calling it an anti-LGBTQ hate group. If that they had taken it up, writes my Verge colleague Adi Robertson, it will have opened the window for the court docket to make it simpler for public figures to win libel circumstances towards media retailers.
By not taking over the case, SCOTUS is leaving the “actual malice” customary from the 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan case in place, which discovered that public figures want to indicate {that a} false assertion was made knowingly or with reckless disregard for its fact with the intention to show defamation. Podcasters and publishers within the US are additionally coated by this safety.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who doesn’t have a lot regard for precedent, wrote a dissent saying that the “actual malice” customary must be revisited. “This case is one of many showing how [NYT v. Sullivan] and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity.’” In this explicit occasion, he appears to be the one particular person on the court docket of that opinion. But as Robertson notes, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Elena Kagan have taken difficulty with the “actual malice” customary up to now, so this is probably not the final we hear on the libel difficulty.
Pushkin Industries additionally goes Hollywood
Malcolm Gladwell’s audio firm, Pushkin Industries, has minimize a first-look take care of unbiased studio A24, Bloomberg studies. The deal will enable A24 to have the primary crack at Pushkin’s audio properties, which embody hit podcast Revisionist History.
The first venture A24 will develop as a part of the deal will probably be a documentary collection based mostly on Gladwell’s most up-to-date guide, The Bomber Mafia. The deal will even pay for Pushkin to get a growth govt. The firm has employed Meghna Rao from Topic Studios to fill the function.
The Black Effect Podcast Festival is coming to Brooklyn this summer time
iHeartworkMedia and Charlamagne Tha God will host the primary Black Effect Podcast Festival this summer time, that includes stay tapings of a few of the community’s greatest reveals, like The 85 South Show and All The Smoke. The pageant will probably be held at The Brooklyn Mirage at Avant Gardner.
The Black Effect Podcast Network is a collaboration between iHeartwork and its greatest star, The Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God. “The Black Effect Podcast Network was created to amplify Black voices for new and established content creators and storytellers,” he stated in a press release. “I’m excited to celebrate the first-ever Black Effect Podcast Festival, where talented Black creators and aspiring podcasters will come together for a day to uplift and inspire one another.”
The pageant will happen on August twenty eighth, and tickets will go on sale on July sixth.
That’s all for at present! I’ll be out subsequent Tuesday, because of Vox Media’s extraordinarily lit four-day July 4th weekend, so I’ll be again in your inbox on July twelfth.
