Current's The Pub

Get this, there’s a thing called the “Radio Scholarly Interest Group” — a bunch of academics from around the world who study radio. They invited host Adam Ragusea to talk to them at the 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Atlanta. Adam's talk was about how podcasting is changing public radio. He goes through the numbers (people still aren’t listening to podcasts that much), the creative and economic opportunities, the NPR-station politics, and the two crises that he sees podcasting bringing about in public radio: a mission crisis and a crisis of localism. That talk, plus the extensive and enlightening Q&A afterward, is this week’s Pub!