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Understanding public radio’s multi-platform audience–and being prepared for what you’ll see.
Public radio is spread across many platforms that use inconsistent and sometimes contradictory metrics. When you equalize them, it gives you a sobering…
May 14
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Eric Nuzum
April 2025
Podcasting Neurogenesis: Perhaps We Need Two Words To Describe Podcasting
Everyone talks endlessly about how much podcasting has changed, but it really hasn’t. It’s actually split into two distinct things.
Apr 30
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Eric Nuzum
March 2025
The Way The Audio Industry Hires is Unnecessarily Humiliating, Disrespectful, and Wrong
Hiring practices in our industry have gotten really unnecessarily bad. It’s fixable and starts with YOU. And also, what makes co-hosts work?
Mar 31
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Eric Nuzum
February 2025
"Something About YouTube"
What was the vibe at the On Air Fest Business Summit? Ask the coat check guy.
Feb 25
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Eric Nuzum
The Future is Not Zero
Audio is in an age of constant disruption and reinvention–but that doesn’t mean any audio mediums are “dying,” just changing.
Feb 6
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Eric Nuzum
December 2024
Bringing a Tote Bag to a Gunfight
With the change of leadership in Washington, there is a quiet debate going around about the future of public broadcasting federal funding. Here is what…
Dec 19, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
November 2024
The Power of Speaking to One Listener
Any time you open a mic, you are speaking to hundreds–or thousands–or hundreds of thousands of people. But you do best when you pretend there is an…
Nov 26, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
It’s Time To Ask Eric Anything
I asked for questions and now I attempt to answer them, talking about video post-production, windowing, public radio…and we’re hiring for a big job.
Nov 4, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
October 2024
Time Is Irrelevant
Should public radio stories be shorter? Maybe. But that is definitely the wrong solution to what ails public radio.
Oct 9, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
September 2024
Not Everything Needs To Be A Podcast
Creators approach their projects with such passion and conviction, but never pause to ask if they are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Plus…
Sep 25, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
August 2024
Is Audio A Destination Or A Waypoint?
As podcasting experiences its own “pivot to video” era, it's time for a bit of existential thinking.
Aug 11, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
July 2024
The Potpourri Dispatch: My TED Talk, NYT’s Paywall, and Public Radio “News”
A collection of smaller items circulating in my summer brain.
Jul 18, 2024
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Eric Nuzum
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