Podcast journalism : the promise and perils of audio reporting / David O. Dowling.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Podcasting the pandemic: beyond the NPR revolution -- The perils and promise of true crime podcast journalism -- Intellectual culture -- Sound transactions: audience and the advent of paid podcasts -- Charting the Far Right -- Voices from the margins -- The profit motive: brands as publishers -- Epilogue: podcasting as digital literary journalism.

"Podcasting's stratospheric ascent has inspired a new breed of audio journalism. Ever since the success of Serial, podcasting has become an important part of digital media and the evolving business and journalistic strategies of mainstream media organizations. Podcasting signals a promising and lucrative turn in a once beleaguered news industry. With its longform storytelling, binge-listening audience, and influx of sponsors, the medium has buoyed journalism from the wreckage of digital disruption seen in diminished attention spans, shallow online news templates, vanishing advertising revenue, and decimated newsroom staffs. In Podcast Journalism, Dowling examines how new journalistic standards of nonfiction narrative reportage have emerged and how the medium is affecting the business models of media organizations. As a circumventing technology that remains among the least censored of the world's media, podcasting bypasses the limitations of traditional categories and has been able to serve previously underserved communities. At the same time, as podcasting has grown, new concerns have arisen regarding the blurring of sponsorship and journalism as well as the rise of right-wing podcasting"-- Provided by publisher.