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In the UK, The Radio Academy’s ARIAS took place last night. Among the full winners, Novel for Wondery’s Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera ▸ won Best Factual - Series; Reduced Listening for Spotify’s Decode ▸ took Gold in both Best New Show and Best Specialist Music Show; The Long Time Academy ▸ won Best Independent Podcast, Mags Creative’s Life Sentence ▸ took home The Creative Innovation Award and We are VOICES ▸ won The Grassroots Award.
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In early April, the Apple Podcasts top ten in Ukraine was entirely full of Ukrainian podcasts for the first time. Олексій Кушнір from the iZONE Media podcast studio writes about the changes in consumption in the country.
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Remote recording tool Riverside has launched an iPad app.

Moves and hires

Neal Carruth is to join Freakonomics Radio as Executive Vice President and General Manager. He’d been working at NPR for almost 23 years, lately overseeing a large portfolio of NPR podcasts. In an all-staff email to NPR News, which we reproduce in part, he notes that his time at NPR has spanned nearly half the history of the organisation so far. Frank Racioppi writes about the legacy he leaves behind.
Sarah van Mosel has joined iHeartMedia as Executive Vice President of the iHeart Audience Network. She’ll also assist sales operations, publisher development and podcast slate partnerships for iHeartPodcasts. She was previously at Stitcher / SXM Media.

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