{"id":120793,"date":"2019-02-20T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=120793"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:59:43","slug":"the-economist-releases-daily-news-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-economist-releases-daily-news-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist releases daily news podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Economist has launched a daily 20-minute global current affairs podcast called \u2018The Intelligence\u2019. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new show has been created by host Jason Palmer, co-editor of Economist Espresso, alongside a team of eight newly hired editors and producers. Each podcast episode will be split into three parts: a news story analysis, an in-depth feature, and a lighter piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tom Standage, head of digital strategy and deputy editor at The Economist said: \u2018This is central to what we do and a great way to introduce the nature of our journalism to others. We absolutely believe in the power of audio.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new daily news podcast will sit alongside The Economist\u2019s current set of five weekly podcasts, on topics such as tech, finance and science. According to the publisher, these existing audio shows fetched seven million average monthly listens and downloads in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The podcast will be competing in a market already well-served by the likes of the Guardian\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/series\/todayinfocus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Today in Focus\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, The Financial Times\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/ft-news-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018FT News\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the BBC\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p06pzmr4\/episodes\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Beyond Today\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susie Warhurst, global head of content at podcasting platform Acast said: \u2018The Economist\u2019s global outlook and tone of voice will set it apart from other daily news podcasts.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Podcasts have grown in popularity over the last few years in the UK. According to stats from Radio Joint Audience Research (RJAR) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rajar.co.uk\/docs\/news\/MIDAS_Autumn_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.9 million adults,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 13% of the adult population, listen to a podcast in an average week, up from 5.5 million in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up-to-date with new podcasts, journalists and opportunities with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/pr-software\/media-database\/?clid=Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vuelio Media Database<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has launched a daily 20-minute global current affairs podcast called \u2018The Intelligence\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":120796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,184,7272,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120883,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120793\/revisions\/120883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}