Submissions and Disclosures

Submissions

We accept story submissions via email to editor@podnews.net. Here are other ways of contacting us.

Here is more detail on submitting a podcast for our podcast news section.

We do not seek payment to cover any story.

Things that really help us when submitting stuff:

• Photographs of humans. We really like large, landscape, photographs (or links to them). Your big Twitter banner image might be up our street. If you don’t give us any artwork, we might do some poor visual puns.
• No, not logos. We don’t want a logo: people confuse those for ads. We don’t want your square podcast artwork, either. Photographs that have people in them work best.
• Simple PDF releases. We like those (though make sure the text is copyable). If text has links or other formatting, we’ll often use that.
• Everything we need to do our job in one email. We work in a different timezone to you (probably), so if you tell us “photos on request!” or “are you interested in this [random one line story] so I can send you a press release?” then you’ve just added a 24 hour delay.
• Please use our right name. We’re called Podnews. We’re not called PodNews. If you can’t be bothered to get our name right, we’re less likely to publish your news. No, really.

We always respect embargoes. Bear in mind that we publish at 2100 GMT -10 (6am winter, 7am summer New York time), so if you give us an embargo for 8am New York time, a) we’ll be sad, and b) it’ll be old news by the time we publish it the next day.

We always respect requested anonymity.

We want to cover diverse voices. We’re keen to achieve a healthy gender balance, cover news from outside the USA, celebrate stories from indie podcasters, and amplify the under-represented. Please don’t shy away from pointing out in your cover email if you fall into any of these groups.

We do not normally accept “guest posts”.

Paid opportunities

Podnews has sponsorship opportunities to ensure daily coverage of your product or service; and offers a paid “editorial focus” to promote big launches. Pricing starts at $500; Kristy is at sales@podnews.net and will be happy to help you.

Our editorial policy on AI

Nothing you see in Podnews is the direct output of any AI program, unless it clearly says so. We’re currently not using AI tools in any part of our editorial process.

We have, in the past, used Google’s Bard to summarise long podcast press releases. We might use summary tools again one day - maybe to help initially triage email. We don’t forsee a time when we use AI to actually write for us, though.

We don’t use AI photography tools, with the exception of when we’re writing some stories specifically about AI. We’ll credit the AI tool used if that’s the case.

Press releases and photographs submitted to us may have used AI in their generation. If they’ve not told us they’re using them, we can’t tell you. However, we’re pretty good at spotting when press releases or stories elsewhere are using AI, and we try not to link to them if we suspect that they’re AI generated.

Commercial ownership and disclosures

Podnews is published by Podnews, LLC. Our partners are Amazingly Brilliant Pty Ltd and Podcast Movement, LLC. Both partners contribute to the business’s operations, but Podcast Movement, LLC has no influence in the editorial process, and does not see editorial content prior to publishing. No user data is shared by either partner.

Sponsors and supporters are not given any editorial control of stories within the main newsletter, nor given any guarantee we’ll cover a story. Podnews may carry sponsored content as separate stories or sections, and the relationship between us and that company will be clearly marked.

You can buy classified advertising; we do not see any placed classified advertising during our editorial process, and are ignorant of the contents of this section until completion of each daily edition.

We have a cost-neutral partnership package with event and conference organisers where we help promote their events with a mix of paid classifieds and editorial mentions. They have no control over the content of any editorial mention.

James Cridland is Podnews’s Editor. Personal investments over US$1,000 are either a) chosen at the sole discretion of an investment manager, who he does not instruct beyond overall investment aims; or b) invested in market tracking funds.

James is also a consultant for podcast and radio companies, and a speaker at associated conferences and events. Some of these companies will pay him fees or expenses in the course of his work. He will disclose companies for whom he performs regular contracted work. Currently, these include the following:

• James is an advisor for Poductivity, The Podcast Broker, RSS.com, MapsFM, and Fountain.
• James does regular (though uncontracted) work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Radiodays group of events.