I hope you all had an excellent weekend. I actually wasn’t huddled in a ball of hysteria concerning the very cloth of ladies’s rights within the US being stripped away, no sir.
On that observe, there’s a lot occurring within the audio world in response to the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade. Podcasters are organizing, Slate is doing a stunt marketing campaign in areas the place abortion is now restricted, and Howard Stern is operating for president, possibly.
However first, a really particular Sizzling Pod announcement (elegant transition, proper?)
Sizzling Pod Summit goes Hollywood 
Massive information: we’re bringing Sizzling Pod Summit to Los Angeles. On November third at KCRW, we’ll have a day of conversations about how the podcasting trade is being formed by West Coast tech giants and changing into more and more entwined with legacy Hollywood establishments. The summit is being held in collaboration with work x work and On Air Fest LA, which runs from November third to fifth, and is being co-presented by KCRW. I’m excited to nerd out on audio, meet a few of you guys IRL, and, dare I say, get just a little tan?
We’ll hold you posted on the lineup and different particulars as they change into accessible. Hope to see you there!
Podcasters set up pre-roll marketing campaign for abortion rights
Within the wake of the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade, dozens of podcasters are banding collectively to report and place pre-roll messages advocating for abortion rights. Began by EarBuds Podcast Collective founder Arielle Nissenblatt, the marketing campaign has managed to get some huge exhibits on board, together with My Favourite Homicide and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
Nissenblatt collaborated with writers and producers to give you completely different script templates to suit completely different hosts’ wants (30-second vs. 60-second, US-based vs. worldwide) and compiled hyperlinks to abortion sources that podcasters may put of their present notes. The marketing campaign additionally enlisted voice actor and podcaster Matt Cundill to report a number of completely different variations that exhibits can place if they don’t need to report it themselves.
When the choice was introduced, “my first thought was, like, how will podcasters need to uniquely react to this?” Nissenblatt advised Sizzling Pod. “They’ll supply sources, they’ll supply assist, they’ll unfold the message, and we will come at it from a unified place.”
Thus far, not less than three dozen exhibits have participated within the marketing campaign. Nissenblatt says that Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from My Favourite Homicide leaping on board did loads to encourage different podcasters to do the identical. Different huge names which have expressed curiosity in becoming a member of embrace Alex Steed from You Are Good and Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante from The Bechdel Forged.
Slate erects billboards selling Sluggish Burn in states with set off legal guidelines
Slate is launching a provocative new marketing campaign to advertise its newest season of Sluggish Burn, which tells the story of Shirley Wheeler, the primary lady convicted of manslaughter for getting an abortion. The outlet has positioned billboards in states that now have a number of the strictest abortion legal guidelines within the nation urging passersby to “Defend Shirley Wheeler.”
The marketing campaign’s URL, defendshirleywheeler.com, redirects to Sluggish Burn’s present web page. The billboards have been positioned in Jackson, Mississippi; Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Phoenix, Arizona; Boise, Idaho; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Daytona Seaside, Florida, the place Wheeler lived when she bought her abortion. It’s a sensible (if dystopian!!) marketing campaign that ought to seize consideration in these areas, for higher or worse.
Howard Stern 4 Prez
As a result of there hasn’t been sufficient chaos up to now week, radio star Howard Stern has responded to the abortion ruling by saying he’ll actually, truly most likely run for president in 2024. “If I do run for president, and I’m not fucking round, I’m actually desirous about it,” he mentioned on his SiriusXM present Monday, “as quickly as I change into president, you’re gonna get 5 new Supreme Court docket justices which are going to overturn all this bullshit.”
One other pillar of the Stern platform: “one vote, one individual, no extra of this Electoral School, I’m eliminating it.” That may be good, if legally inconceivable.
If he did step into the fray, it wouldn’t be Stern’s first try at operating for workplace. He ran for governor of New York in 1994 till he dropped out as a result of he refused to reveal his private funds. He might not have Mike Bloomberg cash, however bringing in $85 million a yr, Stern has loads of money to play with if he needed to run (or not less than do some sort of stunt marketing campaign). Both means, President Biden will not be prone to be happy.
SCOTUS received’t rewrite defamation regulation (however they are saying plenty of issues!!!)
On Monday, the Supreme Court docket turned down a petition to listen to a case through which an evangelical Christian ministry accused the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart (SPLC) of falsely calling it an anti-LGBTQ hate group. If that they had taken it up, writes my Verge colleague Adi Robertson, it could have opened the window for the courtroom to make it simpler for public figures to win libel circumstances towards media shops.
By not taking on the case, SCOTUS is leaving the “precise malice” customary from the 1964 New York Instances Co. v. Sullivan case in place, which discovered that public figures want to point out {that a} false assertion was made knowingly or with reckless disregard for its fact as a way to show defamation. Podcasters and publishers within the US are additionally coated by this safety.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who doesn’t have a lot regard for precedent, wrote a dissent saying that the “precise malice” customary must be revisited. “This case is one in all many exhibiting how [NYT v. Sullivan] and its progeny have allowed media organizations and curiosity teams ‘to solid false aspersions on public figures with close to impunity.’” On this explicit occasion, he appears to be the one individual on the courtroom of that opinion. However as Robertson notes, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Elena Kagan have taken subject with the “precise malice” customary up to now, so this will not be the final we hear on the libel subject.
Pushkin Industries additionally goes Hollywood
Malcolm Gladwell’s audio firm, Pushkin Industries, has reduce a first-look cope with unbiased studio A24, Bloomberg studies. The deal will permit A24 to have the primary crack at Pushkin’s audio properties, which embrace hit podcast Revisionist Historical past.
The primary undertaking A24 will develop as a part of the deal can be a documentary sequence primarily based on Gladwell’s most up-to-date e-book, The Bomber Mafia. The deal may also pay for Pushkin to get a improvement government. The corporate has employed Meghna Rao from Matter Studios to fill the position.
The Black Impact Podcast Competition is coming to Brooklyn this summer time
iHeartMedia and Charlamagne Tha God will host the primary Black Impact Podcast Competition this summer time, that includes dwell tapings of a number of the community’s largest exhibits, like The 85 South Present and All The Smoke. The pageant can be held at The Brooklyn Mirage at Avant Gardner.
The Black Impact Podcast Community is a collaboration between iHeart and its largest star, The Breakfast Membership co-host Charlamagne Tha God. “The Black Impact Podcast Community was created to amplify Black voices for brand spanking new and established content material creators and storytellers,” he mentioned in an announcement. “I’m excited to have fun the first-ever Black Impact Podcast Competition, the place gifted Black creators and aspiring podcasters will come collectively for a day to uplift and encourage each other.”
The pageant will happen on August twenty eighth, and tickets will go on sale on July sixth.
That’s all for at this time! I’ll be out subsequent Tuesday, because of Vox Media’s extraordinarily lit four-day July 4th weekend, so I’ll be again in your inbox on July twelfth.
