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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
Related: Public Radio Companies Acquire a Podcast App
Changing Face of Radio Distribution
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 05 2018, @01:40AM (9 children)
Apple is making double the revenue Alphabet is.
https://www.apple.com/diversity/ [apple.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @01:58AM (8 children)
Well if you are a white man, clearly you can see that their goal is to not hire you.
I looked at the photos, and the only white man they showed was blind and they talked about the insights he gave Apple because he was blind. So he only made the page because he could be counted as representing a disabled group.
Fucking-A.
And it's no accident that the only white man was feeble and disabled. Can't have a photo of a strong, commanding Anglo-Saxon man. It's Hitler's German brainwashing IN REVERSE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @02:06AM (3 children)
Didn't Apple take some flack recently for the demographics of their board?
Now riddle me this. The working class is perfectly diverse. People of all colors, genders, shapes, sizes, and disabilities are in the working class! Hell, the working class has added diversity because there are more minorities and women, and there will be more and more disabled people in the working class as factories get more unsafe. So if we care about diversity, shouldn't we be elevating the working class?
Nope. Instead they just care about board rooms.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by chromas on Friday October 05 2018, @03:38AM (2 children)
Denise Young Smith (who is a black African American woman of color) apologized and quit her position as Apple's Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion [techcrunch.com] after saying diversity goes beyond appearances.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Friday October 05 2018, @12:32PM (1 child)
I hadn't heard about that. That's quite impressive if it's true. It's such a weird world these days. Tolerance of opinion is alive and well with classical liberals (let's call them centrists so as to not offend them) and the right. Dogmatic screeching and shouting down is all I can hear from the regressive left. A black american diversity officer quits after deciding divisive identity politics is a dead end. Maybe this outbreak of PC insanity will pass soon.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 05 2018, @02:28PM
Yes it is a weird world now. "Upside-down world," I have heard it called. It feels that way because all the orthodoxies that have ordered our lives and societies for the last several centuries are disintegrating at once. Our great-grand kids will be studying and arguing about this time we're in now, for a long time.
In history, this phase we're in now always precedes major realignments.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @02:43AM
You're looking at the pictures, not at the numbers. Good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @04:57AM
Mr. blind guy:
Being that Apple's embedded devices are locked up tighter than an ugly nun's chastity belt: "No, it is not accessible. I can only use it as much as Apple allows me. And I wrote the firmware too."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @05:13AM (1 child)
From Apple's website
Asians are the most out of whack group making up 21% of the workforce, but only 5% of the population. That's 400% too high representation.
Black is low by 25%. White is too low by 30%, Hispanic is too low by a factor of two.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 05 2018, @02:30PM
Are South Asians rolled up into that "Asian" category? Are Russians?
Washington DC delenda est.