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NPR AZNs Pick Their Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

The employee group, which supports NPR staff members through advocacy and cultural visibility, reflects on some favorite performances in celebration of Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

The employee group, which supports NPR staff members through advocacy and cultural visibility, reflects on some favorite performances in celebration of Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.

Spotify Launches Podcast Subscriptions, Will Give Creators 100% Of Revenue Through 2023 As reports last week predicted, Spotify today launched podcast subscriptions, plus unveiled new distribution and advertising tools for creators and marketers. Spotify’s subscription feature will be available through Anchor, the podcast distribution platform it acquired for a reported $150 million in 2019. Creators can use Anchor to mark specific episodes or entire series as subscriber-only, and can indiv...

Apr 27, 2021 17:54 EDT with 2 comments Spotify is taking on Apple in the podcasting race after the tech giant unveiled its Podcasts subscription service last week. The streaming service announced today that it is giving content creators a platform to monetize their podcasts through a subscription program. Podcasters will have access to Spotify’s Anchor tool to choose episodes that they want to make available only to their subscribers and then publish them to Spotify or other pla...

Spotify is rolling out paid podcast subscriptions. The feature is coming to the U.S. from today. Users will have to make a submission to join a waitlist in order to be considered for monetization. Spotify is today rolling out its own paid podcast subscription platform, following the announcement of Apples Podcast Subscription last week. The company stated: At Stream On, we shared that wed be launching more choices for podcast monetization: a native solution on Spotify to power paid podcast su...

So youve successfully scored a vaccine — navigating your way through your local registration process and sometimes even going on a journey to find a more available supply of immunizations. Congrats! Thats amazing news, seriously — especially since not everyone in the world has access to a vaccine right now. Over a year into the pandemic, post-jab euphoria is real. More vaccinations are going around and things finally, slowly, just ever-so-slightly beginning to (I daresay) look up. But that ...

Coronavirus Vaccine FAQs: Whats Up With Side Effects? Should You Still Double Mask? at 5:04 pm NPR Each week, we answer "frequently asked questions" about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question youd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." So youve successfully scored a vaccine — navigating your way through your local registration process and sometimes even going on ...

The usual side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine can range from a sore arm to flu-like symptoms. Or, if youre lucky, you wont get any side effects at all. Each week, we answer "frequently asked questions" about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question youd like us to consider for a future post, email us at with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." So youve successfully scored a vaccine — navigating your way through your local registration process and sometimes eve...

SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Researchers suggest that smell training can help those whove lost their sense of smell regain it. SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images A curious symptom of COVID-19 that can stick with patients for a long time is loss of smell. Researchers dont know exactly how prevalent the loss of smell ism and while most people recover from it, some will not. This has given ...