Podcast Week: Safe Space, Secrets We Keep, SBS call-out
Plus Homegrown Conversations and Off the Handle
LiSTNR and Jess Rowe launch series of episodes to amplify marginalised voices on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show.
Journalist and podcaster Jess Rowe is introducing Safe Space, a series of episodes to be run throughout August on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show.
The series will spotlight Australian women sharing their challenging lived experiences, including coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis, battling a 28-year ice addiction, overcoming racism as an Asian Australian and addressing obesity stigma.
Jess Rowe says, “With Safe Space I have the opportunity to share the microphone with people who are not often heard, but whose stories need to be shared."
SBS makes annual call-out to aspiring or experienced podcasters to join their award-winning podcast team.
For the fourth year, SBS is inviting podcast pitches from the public on topics ranging from news, entertainment, society and culture and more to join the podcast publisher.
SBS has used previous open pitches to launch multiple award-winning series, including Should You Really Eat That?, The Idiom, Bad Taste and My Bilingual Family. SBS digital audio and podcast manager Caroline Gates says, “It’s been wonderful to see podcast ideas incubated through SBS’s annual call-out become award-winning series and even grow into second seasons.”
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Pitches are shortlisted and workshopped with the SBS audio podcast team, with applications closing 30 August.
LiSTNR launches third series of Secrets We Keep to investigate Australia’s biggest trade corruption scandal.
Award-winning journalist Richard Baker investigates how a trusted Australian company funnelled millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein in Secrets We Keep: Baghdad Nights.
The third series of Secrets We Keep follows the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and how they became implicated in the corruption surrounding the United Nations’ oil-for-food program in Iraq during the early 2000s. Key figures from AWB become integral voices in the series as audiences are taken to the war zones, secret meetings and the offices of the country’s most powerful people.
Richard Baker said: “Secrets We Keep: Baghdad Nights takes you behind the scenes of how Australia conducts itself on the world stage - in making money and making war. It’s about how our country deals with scandal, who is held to account and who gets away with it.”
NOVA talent launches new ‘Homegrown Conversations’ podcast campaign
Homegrown Conversations is a new customer marketing campaign from NOVA Entertainment to showcase Nova Podcast network’s suite of podcast content.
The seven-week editorial and social campaign, launched on Monday, features nine podcast titles and 12 podcast hosts that reflects Nova’s positioning around originality, authenticity and localism. The campaign is accompanied by original portraits by Abbie Davis, a.k.a ‘Mrs White’, that reflects the connection each talent has with their audiences.
The talent featured in the campaign are:
• Chrissie Swan – The ChrissieCast
• Brittney Saunders and Matt Hey – High Scrollers
• Jayme Jo and Jessie Massoud – Skinfluence
• Brooke Blurton and Matty Mills – First Things First
• Joe Hildebrand – The Real Story
• Megan Pustetto – So Dramatic!
• Tiff Hall – Bounce Forward
• Casey Donovan – The Space
• Joel Creasey – Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel
Exclusive: Instagram flies Off the Handle with launch of first Australian podcast
Instagram is going behind the grid and getting to know some of its biggest creators, in the Meta-owned platform’s first video-first podcast series.
Off The Handle marks a major investment in original content for Instagram. Michael Morcos, Instagram’s head of communications, told Mediaweek that the title “depicts beautifully what we’re trying to achieve.”
