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Google Podcasts creator program opens to provide training, funding, & promote inclusivity
With the Android app's launch in June, the Google Podcasts creator program was also teased to promote inclusive storytelling and increase diversity in podcasting. Google is now opening sign-ups for a training program that will feature seed funding to create unique and sustainable shows.
The Google Podcasts creator program aims to address two imbalances as the industry is skyrocketing in popularity: "Women and people of color are still underrepresented as hosts, and many of the world's most popular podcasts hail from western, urban areas." It has three main pillars:
- Empowering and training underrepresented voices through an accelerator program
- Educating a global community with free tools
- Showcasing participants' work as a model for others
The first pillar begins now, with Google partnering with PRX to lead and manage the program, including the 20-weeks of training. Interested partners can submit pitches for unique shows that highlight diverse viewpoints.
Also at TechCrunch.
Previously: Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @12:59AM (4 children)
What of the disabled? Talk about marginalized citizens, wasn't too long ago they were being locked up in mental institutions.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 05 2018, @01:24AM (1 child)
A mute person could use text-to-speech.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @02:49AM
We need to work on a variant to that for liberals: incoherence-to-logic or retard-to-reason.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @04:20AM (1 child)
What about orange people? How many orange people are there in the world?
They must be the most minor of minorities yet they managed to get elected to POTUS. That is the biggest coverup of our age, TRUMP IS A MINORITY.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 05 2018, @02:13PM
That was his fundamental mistake. Had he positioned himself as a person suffering from the terrible affliction of orange skin syndrome, the MSM would have treated him with kid gloves.
Washington DC delenda est.