Ashley Flowers non-profit gets arrest in unsolved case

• A non-profit organisation set up by podcaster Ashley Flowers has led to an arrest in an unsolved case. A suspect was arrested a week ago in connection with eight alleged sexual assault cases, after funding was made available for an advanced DNA test from Flowers’ Season of Justice. The funding group is currently assisting 31 cases.

• An indie podcast is now being published via a syndicated weekly column in a number of local newspapers. The podcast, Looking Forward, will be carried in TAPinto newspapers in the US.

• Ashley Carman’s Hot Pod Insider reports that podcast company Himalaya has been scaled down, with around eight people, almost half the company’s staff, losing their jobs over the summer. Ariel Liu has been made CEO. We reported in April that the company was transitioning towards a focus on audio courses; the company is now pivoting again to “short-form inspirational and motivational content”.

  
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• Clubhouse has added Wave, an equivalent of catching someone in the hallway of a conference and having a quick chat between sessions.

• The August 2021 Latin America Podcast Report has been released by Triton Digital. The highest new entry at #16 was Dementes (“uncensored conversations with leaders of industry”).

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• There’s a new podcast network in France. Orso Media has been launched by Matthieu Stefani and Christofer Ciminelli, and brings together ten podcast creators with more than a million downloads a month.

• Perry Tripp has joined Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast as Director of Brand Partnerships. He joins from media company Talkhouse.

  
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