Podcasting Is the New Talk-Radio
The intimacy of the format has the potential to make listeners feel things—and emotional resonance affects how people perceive information.
by Juliette De Maeyer
May 24, 2017
3 minutes
Thinking about what technological innovation has done to journalism in the past two decades can be a dizzying experience. People have more data, better maps, prettier visualizations, more push notifications, faster fact-checking, and so on.
Yet there is a unifying feature behind all of these innovations, and it has to do with the role of media and the public in a democracy.
The news media, the argument goes, must provide the rationally-minded members of the public with enough information for them to see a clear and accurate
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