In a six-day driving vacation with a significant other, there’s always a moment when the journey can veer from wonderful to warfare at the drop of a hat — or in our case, a drop of the shorts. Sometimes this moment signals the end of the vacation. Sometimes it’s a…

It’s a dueling daddy issues weekend Are you a Gen-X latchkey kid with daddy issues? Cuz I am. Get those tissues ready and put your therapist on standby, because this is our weekend to resolve some generational pain. Top Gun’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, returns to theaters for the first time since 1986. Obi-Wan Kenobi, everyone’s favorite…

Lately I have begun to remember my dreams. I went for a long time in life without remembering my dreams, a condition consistent with a waking memory punched through with large gaps. For most of my adult life, I remembered only the occasional pulse-knocking nightmare powerful enough to jolt me awake in terror. Fun! I dreamed more when…

No one is OK. Except maybe Derek. I began the day beaming in a Dunkies in Waltham, Massachusetts. It didn’t end nearly so good. You see, I’m on a whirlwind trip inside a whirlwind trip. Three weeks ago, I had three different people in three different hospitals in three different…

Wow, do I dread the booking process. There are lots of reasons why I dread performing this foundational act of journalism, but it all comes down to the fact that I hate to bother people. Yet I’ve had to keep booking guests in one media format or another for the…

If hell is other people, this job is not for you I learned how to produce radio and television at CBS News. CBS had and still has some of the best news producers ever — people you have never heard of and likely never will. People who changed my life…

What is a producer and what do they do? Producing for TV, radio, podcasts, and other digital media formats is the ongoing and never-ending act of solving 100 problem a day, one problem at time. That’s it. If you are a producer, your job is to solve problems for other…

Oh hey hi! Happy New Year! I figured we’d start out in 2019 with a new edition of the podcast newsletter that darts about the Outer Rim territories of the podcast universe. Think of it as a company newsletter with a special interest in independent podcasts–the ones you don’t always…

“Never atop the charts, always ahead of the game” — “Podcast Envy Syndrome” Hiya! I’m Jennie Josephson, and I produce podcasts for a living. I’m starting a newsletter so I can keep up to date on life in the Outer Rim territories of the podcast world. There are lots of podcasts out here — in June 2018, Apple announced they…