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There's trouble at The News Agents. The latest from podnews.net with Podcastle: create, edit

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The News Agents: This has been a Global Player Original podcast and a

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Persephonica production.

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Chart topping UK podcast The News Agents is no longer being produced

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by Persephonica, the production company owned by Dino Sofos. The show is, says Edison Podcast

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Metrics, the number 14 show in the UK - but Deadline suggests that there had been a breakdown in

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relations after the launch of Political Currency which global saw as a rival show.

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The podcast that released an AI George Carlin episode has settled with Carlin's estate; terms

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weren't given. We've a new feature if your podcast app understands an OPML feed you'll

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now find OPML feeds at the bottom of all of our pages with lists of podcasts like The Ambies winners

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from last week. OPML feeds work with Pocket Casts, AntennaPod, Overcast, Podbean, Castro,

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GoodPods and more. In people news, Christian Luiga has been named as Spotify's new chief

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financial officer; he'll start in October says his previous employer Saab. Ben Kong will be acting

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CFO until then. Spotify's previous CFO Paul Vogel, who sold nine point three million dollars of

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Spotify shares on the day the company laid off 1,500 people, leaves Spotify at the end of this month.

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Charlie Smith has joined workflow automation and ad management company Frequency as technical

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account manager. Milly Webber has been hired as a digital agent in the UK for talent agency WME;

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she'll have a focus on creators and podcasting. Joe Bucci has been appointed as chair of audioadpro,

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a digital audio advertising platform and in podcast news - Happy national read a roadmap day! No

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really - Trap Street is a new mystery fiction podcast about maps cartography and the future of the

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entire human race, it's new from the creators of Strange Air; and the award-winning Small Town Dicks

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returns for a new season today. it's had 48 million downloads so far. Co-hosted by Yardley Smith who's

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the voice of Lisa Simpson, identical twin detectives Dan and Dave, and Paul Holes, the acclaimed cold case

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investigator, New York Times best-selling author, and true crime expert. Trailers for selected shows

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