Appendix A: Newsletters,Training, Recommendations, Conferences
In this section, you’ll find curated resources for podcasters, including podcasting newsletters and podcast recommendations (excellent for discovering new shows and industry trends).
There are also podcasts about podcasting, information on conferences, online training guides, and Facebook groups that support podcasters.
- Podnews by James Cridland is a leading daily newsletter covering the podcast business, including research, shows, and jobs. Also a podcast version.
- Podnews Business Journal is a weekly newsletter featuring in-depth interviews, industry data, and key business-of-podcasting updates.
- Sound Judgment, a twice-monthly publication on creative choices in audio storytelling. They also offer a podcast verison.
- Find That Pod is a weekly newsletter highlighting five new podcasts.
- Radio Ink is a free online magazine covering radio and podcast topics.
- NPR has online audio training guides.
- Podglomerate publishes a blog with tips on podcast production, audience growth, and monetization.
- Lime Link blog by Jack Rhysider offers great advice with strong visuals.
- Podcast The Newsletter by Lauren Passell includes recommendations and interviews with podcasters.
- Podcast Bestie offers podcasting insights and job tips.
- Sounds Profitable The Download is a newsletter and podcast covering changes in the podcast business and job opportunities.
- Grants for Creators shares funding opportunities for authors, writers, podcasters, journalists, and artists, there is a free and paid-level.
- The Audio Insurgent by Eric Nuzum offers insights from a veteran podcaster and strategist every 2–3 weeks.
- Inside Podcasting by Skye Pillsbury provides weekly industry news and podcaster interviews.
- AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) has a newsletter with grants, gigs, jobs, and resources for independent audio makers (membership required: $100 professionals / $45 students).
- JustPod, an English-language newsletter about Chinese podcasting.
- Audio Dramatic, focused on writing for audio dramas.
Podcast Recommendations
- NPR Pod Club provides handpicked recommendations every Friday with a free subscription.
- Earbuds Podcast Collective publishes a weekly newsletter with five podcast episodes curated around a theme by a different person each week.
- Find That Pod is a weekly roundup of five new podcasts.
- Listen Notes is a keyword-based search engine for curating and sharing playlists for podcasts.
- New Podcast Trailers highlights newsworthy new shows as featured in the Podnews daily newletter.
- Fiction Podcast Weekly highlights audio fiction, drama, and sound storytelling.
Podcasts About Podcasting
- Podnews Daily is the audio version of the daily newsletter about podcasting and on-demand audio.
- Podcast Perspectives by Podglomerate discusses the future of podcasting with notable industry figures.
- Feedback with EarBuds is the audio version of the Earbud newsletter.
- Gimlet Academy is a five-episode series by Alex Blumber and Spotify for Podcasters about the audio storytelling craft,
- How to Start A Podcast covers how to design and build your podcast.
- New Podcast highlights trailers of new and noteworthy shows as featured in the Podnews’ daily newletter.
- Podcast Besties is the audio version of the newsletter.
- Podcasting Q & A from Buzzsprout short tips (3 to 15 minutes).
- Podcraft: Honing the Art of Podcasting is a podcast, buying guides, tech advice and articles.
- Podcasting 2.0 is a weekly news and technology podcast with Adam Curry and Dave Jones.
- School of Podcasting by Dave Jackson covers planning, production and podcasting tools.
- Sound Judgment is a podcast goes behind-the-scenes with great podcast hosts to discuss how they make their magic.
- Sounds Profitable focuses on the podcast ad-tech industry.
- Sound School Podcast (Rob Rosenthial/PRX/Transom.org) explores the craft and back story of audio storytelling.
- TechCrunch Daily covers the biggest tech headlines of the day in under 5 minutes.
- The Audacity to Podcast by Daniel J. Lewis offers podcast training resources.
- The Feed, one of the longest-running industry podcasts features tips, advice and reviews.
- The Podcast Review Show with Dave Jackson & Eric K. Johnson offers critiques of podcasts for a fee.
- The Power of Podcasting, TED talk video by Beau York.
- Women in Podcasting Show focuses on empowering women with tips, tools, and strategies.
Podcast Conferences
- Podfest Expo (Orlando, Fla., Jan. 15-18, 2026) One of the longest-running in-person podcast conferences.
- On Air Fest (Brooklyn, NY., Feb. 23-26, 2026) Hipster annual event with live stories, sonic art, networking.
- HigherEd PodCon II (Cleveland, Ohio., July 16-17, 2026). For podcasters in higher education – faculty, staff, students, strategists.
- Podcast Movement (Austin, TX., March 2026; NYC Sept. 2026) Now merged with Sounds Profitable.
- The Podcast Show (London, May 19-25, 2026) Live shows and industry events held across London.
Training Guides
- AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) offers training, jobs, tools, and global community resources for independent audio makers.
- The Daily Goody provides a daily tip to make better podcasts.
- NPR training offers free online storytelling and production guidance across audio, digital, social, and video, plus training videos.
- Poynter.org has online courses, training guides, and in-person seminars for journalists; many are free or low-cost. Its Tech & Tools column by Ren LaForme highlights digital tools for journalists.
- Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) offers tools, guides, resources, journalism podcasts.
- Transom.com provides resources from public media on tools (mics, recorders, software), interviewing, fact-checking, and HowSound podcasts from Rob Rosenthal.
- Buzzsprout offers articles and guides to help podcasters grow.
- The We Edit Podcasts Blog provides podcasting tips and information about fee-based services.
Facebook Groups about Podcasting
