Audio has been a crucial a part of our journalism for years now. But our audio journalism still hasn’t change into a significant a part of our digital experience. Our most devoted home-page readers won’t know that we publish a broad range of award-winning podcasts, together with many other pioneering audio formats.
I’m excited to introduce a latest programming team that has been working hard to alter that: The Recent York Times Audio programming team, led by Shreeya Sinha. In partnership with audio producers, editors and product teams, they’ve been working to shape our audio app, which is currently accessible to a small group by invitation only. The app represents our most ambitious experiment in bringing our signature audio journalism to our listeners, and it has change into a laboratory for brand new sorts of audio journalism, from five-minute shorts, to reporters across the globe discussing and reading their stories aloud.
The Recent York Times audio programming team includes Times veterans who’ve worked across a spread of departments and BBC editors who’ve pioneered digital audio experiences. They’ve partnered with our audio producers, editors and product teams to bring this experiment to life. They’ve been hard at work forging a voice and an identity for a product that we expect hundreds of thousands of listeners will love. We’ll have more details on our plans for the audio app soon.