Podcasts don’t respond to chaos in media, culture and politics—they detect the tremors before anyone else feels them. The Signal Room sits you down at the table where podcasting's sharpest minds are writing the new media game plan: five essential conversations with people who see around corners.
In our first episode:
A couple of years ago, “video podcast” might have sounded like an oxymoron. Now, it’s where news breaks and elections are decided. In the inaugural episode of The Signal Room, host Jemma Brown gathers three of the industry’s sharpest operators to examine what this shift actually means — for creators, journalists, and the audiences they’re fighting to reach.
Georgie Holt, CEO of FlightStory and the team behind Diary of a CEO, breaks down how data and human authorship can coexist — and why ego death is a job requirement. Pablo Torre, host of Pablo Torre Finds Out, makes the case for artisanal journalism in an algorithmic world, and explains why he took creative inspiration from a child unboxing toys on YouTube. And Stephanie Smellie of Patreon offers a bird’s-eye view of what creators are actually building — and why the smartest ones are thinking like media empires. The Signal Room is made in partnership with Wistia.