BBC’s international strategy continues to confuse. In the US, they plan to put BBC News behind a paywall. A magnificent approach to hastening irrelevance. This report says live radio will continue to be free. But that’s not the true position.

the Guardian

BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage

‘Premium experience’ for US users will include BBC News livestream as broadcaster looks overseas for income boost

Interesting to have written this back in 2020 (though updated it since) and still seeing people reading this little post and using the affiliate link it contains. Wasn’t really the reason I wrote it, but it’s always nice to see.

James Cridland - radio futurologist

Up Bank: a long-term review of an Aussie neo-bank

A really good Australian neo-bank, that isn’t a neo-bank, but is, and is better than the Commonwealth Bank in almost every way

A dumb question: Podnews has over 500 citations on Wikipedia (yay!) but has no Wikipedia page. That might be nice. Are there any Podnews supporters who might be able to help there?