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Adobe launches a new thing!

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From Los Angeles in California, the latest from podnews.net with CoHost, podcast analytics

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and audience insights.

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Adobe has launched Adobe Podcast Studio in beta to selected users.

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The tool looks similar to Descript and allows you to record, edit and enhance in your browser.

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Amaze Media Labs has launched audiencelift, a new promotion tool for podcasts that delivers

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downloads of trailers to interested audiences.

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The company will be exhibiting at Podcast Movement Evolutions.

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The shortlist was announced for the New York Festivals radio awards which contains 102 nominations

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for the podcast categories. Global's DAX has added two official Taskmaster podcasts to its roster.

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The TV show is one of the most popular in the UK. And a TV documentary series is being

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made into a podcast, BitConned, a Netflix show, is being adapted as a podcast by Glass Entertainment

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and iHeartPodcasts.

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Time for some tech stuff and the host of the R-podcast, Eric Nance, has used the R statistics

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software package to produce the Podcast Index Database Dashboard.

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The tool is built to help spot duplicates in the data and other data issues.

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And ActivityPub: is it a thing for podcasting and how might it help for cross-app comments?

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The Podnews Weekly Review's March 16 edition contained a full interview with Evan Prodromou

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on how it all works and how it might be useful.

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And in Podcast News, Stupid Things for Love with Scott Campbell has joined AdLarge for

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podcast advertising sales. Campbell is a tattooist who has earned the confidence of a clientele that has stories

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to tell. Debut episodes include Tony Hawk, Mark Jacobs and Benny Blanco.

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The people behind Wondery's American History Tellers are to release a book in June on

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the hidden history of the White House.

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The book, written by Cory Mead, will be published by Harper Collins.

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When the grounds of one of the Catholic Church's Magdalene laundries in Ireland were sold

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to developers in 1993, unmarked graves containing 155 bodies were found.

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The discovery led to stories of abuse by those in the convent-run institutions and a successful

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lobbying for a full investigation.

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The Magdalenes and I talk to women who were involved and their fight for justice is new

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from Acast today. And new from the UK's Sky News today, unreliable witness looks at the story of Ellie Williams,

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a young woman jailed for lying about sexual assault and grooming.

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Was the story all it appeared to be and why would she do that?

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