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NPR "Embeds" in the Podcast World
Podcasts are big right now, as big as things get in the audio world. Every media company from Buzzfeed to the New York Times is investing in them. Serial is credited with putting podcasts on the map in the culture beyond public radio, but some critics have worried that National Public Radio has been too slow to lead the pack.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 9m ListenPodcasts are big right now, as big as things get in the audio world. Every media company from Buzzfeed to the New York Times is investing in them. Serial is credited with putting podcasts on the map in the culture beyond public radio, but some critics have worried that National Public Radio has been too slow to lead the pack. Now NPR has gone all in with a new podcast, Embedded. As its tagline goes, it takes a story from the news and then goes deep. Kelly McEvers , familiar to audiences as the host of All Things Considered, hosts the podcast.
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Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Kelly McEvers
Co-host, All Things Considered
The full episode
3 of 3Will Southern Floods Force Republicans to Accept Climate Change?- 1:49Musician Prince Dead at 57
- 8:46Record Floods in Red States
- 42:42NPR "Embeds" in the Podcast WorldYou’re reading this