NPR Departures, Awards Season SEO, and Wordle-Loving Reporters

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Bryan and David begin with a breakdown of the recent NPR departures as chronicled by NPR’s own media reporter David Folkenflik (1:06). They transition to the rise of Wordle, a puzzle game heavily featured on the Twitter accounts of reporters everywhere (11:30). Then they discuss the Postgame Question of the Week, posed to Stetson Bennett IV after Monday’s college football national championship game (19:00). They then tackle the Media Piss Test (24:00) and later talk about the unsurprising dissolution of '60 Minutes+' (26:30). Finally, they examine how exactly SEO considerations might affect this upcoming awards seasons (32:33). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:10.5	With Ferrari and
2:40.5	for the New York Times opinion section.
2:43.2	In December, Noel King departed morning edition and up first for Vox.
2:48.1	And last week, all things considered and considered this host, Audit Cornish, the Camp to be a host
2:53.2	for CNN's new streaming service.
2:56.0	Falcon flick continues in addition, NPR and WBUR informed member stations last week
3:01.3	that Tanya Mosley would leave her job as the host of the network's midday show here
3:05.5	and now at the end of the month dot, dot, dot, Mosley, who is black as pursuing her own podcast.
3:11.7	So what happened?
3:13.9	Well, here's what Falcon flick right hosts have complained to the network's leadership of
3:17.8	pay disparities along racial and gender lines.
3:21.4	Some say the network does not keep its promises and makes contract negotiations unnecessarily
3:25.4	contentious.
3:26.6	And several hosts concluded that they were made to be the public face of NPR, but did not
3:30.6	have the network's full support yet the interviews also yield a more complex picture.
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