New this morning, I reportedly a piece for the verge about why so much coverage of Ukraine has taken the form of pop-up podcasts. The labor required to report out and produce a show is not easily condensed to match the breakneck speed of the news cycle yet NPR the telegraph independent teams and more have rallied resources to word the medium. A lot of these teams have reason to believe that this commitment is worth it and many of them have a lot of the same reasons for thinking so. Many after all have quickly started new podcasts before and some have even been able to repurpose the feeds once they end to help boost future endeavors.
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I don’t love it for you checked out the article over on the site. It is an interesting trend, with some historical precedents and some forward-looking predictions. Last Friday Spotify announced it would suspend services in Russia because the country is newly designed to stifle accurate coverage of its invasion of Ukraine. Spotify expects to complete the shutdown by early April.
Unfortunately, recently enacted legislation further restricting access to Information eliminating free expression, and criminalizing certain types of news puts the safety of Spotify employees and possibly even our listeners at risk. Said a Spotify spoke person who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Spotify previously suspended paid access to its services in Russia looking at an estimated 1.5 million paying subscribers as a result. But it had kept the broader services online until now in the name of keeping information free-flowing to residents.
