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Podcast · Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube · 2017

The Daily

The New York Times · The New York Times

The Daily

50Watch it awake.

A briefing, not a neutral window. Hear it as one newsroom's choice.

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The review

The New York Times made a show that feels like the morning itself. That feeling is the product. The reporting can be real and the selection can still be a lens. A house that treats the theme music as the start of thought has handed the day to one desk.

Hear it if you want. Then read one account that would not have led with the same fact.

Journal

Keep The Daily in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 5Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Song Exploder

65 instead of 50

Song Exploder is still a podcast, and it scores 65 instead of 50. What you gain is truth: You hear the stems.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    A daily edition is work. The host shows up.

  2. 4
    Household

    The home is rarely the subject. The listener is a commuter.

  3. 3
    Piety

    The moral frame is the newsroom's, and it is rarely named as one.

  4. 5
    Courage

    They will open an ugly story. They rarely sit with the listener's objection.

  5. 5
    Republic

    A public needs news. A public also needs more than one door into it.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    It ends. That is better than a feed.

  7. 5
    Truth

    Facts are in it. The order of the facts is an argument.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    A house that only hears this will think the paper's week is the week.

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Do not let it be the only voice before breakfast. Pair it with a page from somewhere else, or with silence.

Where to listen

Finding the page.

Live Historic · The Daily · 50IMDb

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Podcast · Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube · 2014

Serial

Serial Productions · Serial Productions

Serial

46Watch it awake.

The reporting can be serious. The form makes a person's life a season.

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The review

Serial taught a decade of listeners to want the next turn in a stranger's worst year. The first season did real work on a conviction. The habit it trained is the problem: a corpse, or a defendant, as the thing that makes the drive interesting.

If you listen, finish the case and stop. Do not let the next season be how the house does mystery.

Journal

Keep Serial in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Radiolab

58 instead of 46

Radiolab is still a podcast, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is temperance: An episode is a composition.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    She does the calls, the files, the boring hours.

  2. 4
    Household

    The people in the case have houses. The show's house is the audience.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Conscience is a plot beat. Suspense is the altar.

  4. 6
    Courage

    She will say when the story turns on her.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A trial is a civic thing. A season is a product.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    One more episode is the design. A real case does not owe you a cliffhanger.

  7. 6
    Truth

    Much of the tape is true. The week-to-week hunger is added.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    The people in it do not get their lives back when you are done listening.

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When the season ends, do not start another. Talk about what a just outcome would be, then leave it.

Where to listen

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Serial · 46IMDb

For this house

Keep going

The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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