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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: 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.