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PRX and Google announced the second cohort of podcast producers that will participate in the Google Podcasts creator program, a 20-week training and development accelerator for new audio-makers from around the world.
Launched in October 2018 by PRX and Google, the program’s aim is to increase the diversity of voices in podcasting while lowering barriers of entry to the field, globally. In addition to hands-on training and mentorship that includes creative and editorial feedback, audience development, and production skills-building, participants in the program also receive seed funding for their podcasts.
Selected from thousands of entries from more than 100 countries, the new cohort will be comprised of six independent podcast production teams from Spain, Lebanon, Colombia, Brazil, India, and New York. Podcasts will be developed in Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and English.
The new cohort of the Google Podcasts creator program includes:
37 Graus (‘37 Degrees’)—São Paulo, Brazil—Portuguese Named for the average temperature of the human body and intended to convey both science and human warmth, 37 Graus tells stories behind Brazil’s iconic landscapes and events. Co-hosted by Sarah Azoubel Lima and Bia Guimarães, the second season of the podcast is currently in development after the first received critical acclaim.
City of Women—Bangalore, India—English In an exploration of how women navigate their lives in Bangalore (population: 10M+), City of Women will bring listeners on hyper-local tours through a variety of workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities. The podcast will be developed by Radhika Viswanathan and Samyuktha Varma.
Cocktails and Cancer with MJ and Dani—New York, United States—English With frank and empowering conversations designed to make the word ‘cancer’ a little less terrifying, longtime friends Danielle ‘Dani’ Brown and Michelle ‘MJ’ James—MJ was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015—invite listeners on a journey that ranges from chemotherapy and radiation to a loving abide for a great cocktail. The podcast launched in spring 2019. The second season is in development.
De Eso No Se Habla (‘We Don’t Talk About That’)—Madrid, Spain—Spanish While facing her own personal loss, producer and storyteller Isabel Cadenas Cañón began recording an audio atlas of all things absent: missing people, places, and things that might haunt us like ghosts, only without the bedsheets. The podcast is in development.
مسرحهية (‘Her Stage’)—Beirut, Lebanon—Arabic In this narrated documentary-style podcast, storyteller Rhea Chedid and journalist Afeef Nessouli, a former producer for The Daily Show, will present a hidden world in Beirut where differences are celebrated, activism is brewing, and the feminine is being redefined. The podcast is in development.
Un periódico de ayer (‘Yesterday’s News’)—Bogotá, Colombia—Spanish In a narrative-driven podcast about the personal toll of history, producers Juan Serrano, Daniel Díaz, and Miguel Reyes revisit the past in an effort to highlight the invisible threads that connect past and present, historical, and personal. The podcast is in development.
In addition, three podcast teams selected as runners-up are invited to participate in the bootcamp phase of the Google Podcasts creator program—a portion of the larger program—that will take place in Massachusetts at the PRX Podcast Garage and community classroom. The finalists are Reid My Mind Radio (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania), which will pair music, sound, and language to challenge listeners’ beliefs of what it means to live with a disability, as the creator lost his vision as an adult, the James Beard Award-winning Copper & Heat (Oakland, California), and FAXINA (Boston, Massachusetts), a Portuguese-language podcast in development featuring the stories of Brazilian house-cleaners in the United States.
For more information, visit googlecp.prx.org.