This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. --- Today is my last day at The Verge, and this will be my final issue of Hot Pod. I’ll have one more story coming out in the next week or two. But until then, I wanted to offer some parting thoughts on the industry I have covered so closely for the past two years. I have this thing in my career where I always get to the party too late.
I think of Normal Gossip, which manages to combine storytelling and shit-talking in brilliant form and publish often enough to avoid the drop-offs experienced by other seasonal podcasts. Or Unholy: Two Jews on the News, which has used its weekly chat format to feature genuinely challenging conversations at a time when they are really, really necessary. Or Decoder Ring, which has transitioned from seasonal to biweekly, much to my personal benefit.