Nieman Lab·2026-05-07

News podcasts are, increasingly, something you watch (but The Daily still works best as audio)

Large publishers see video as one big future for podcasts, according to a report out Thursday from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). They re certainly not abandoning audio, but they re aware that many young people hear podcast and think YouTube. The discovery mechanisms for video are much better. Video as a medium is extremely personable and transferrable, Nina Lassam , vic

Large publishers see video as one big future for podcasts, according to a report out Thursday from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). They re certainly not abandoning audio, but they re aware that many young people hear podcast and think YouTube. The discovery mechanisms for video are much better. Video as a medium is extremely personable and transferrable, Nina Lassam , vic

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