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.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 05 2018, @02:20PM
It also fails because individuals take what they need, but couldn't lift a finger to help produce. It further fails because the people the State puts in charge of parceling out what people need somehow parcel more to themselves and their cronies, and less to others; they have the further advantage of disappearing anyone who complains.
But for the sake of accuracy, communism has never failed because it has never existed. Socialism failed, every time. It was the transition between capitalism and communism that nobody ever got past, because it was too much fun for those running the redistributive State to redistribute all wealth and power to themselves instead of the old capitalists.
Washington DC delenda est.