Nicholas Quah

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Nicholas Quah
Born1989or1990(age 33–34) [1]
Other namesNick Quah
OccupationJournalist
Employer Vulture
Known forWriting about podcasts
Notable work
  • Hot Pod Newsletter
  • Servant of Pod
Awards
  • 2020 Antitrust Writing Award nominee
  • 2021 Fortune Creator 25
Website www.nicholasquah.com

Nicholas Quah is a journalist for Vulture and is the creator of the Nieman Lab newsletter Hot Pod News.

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Career

Quah was the creator of the Hotpods newsletter. [2] Quah worked for BuzzFeed in 2015 while writing the newsletter. [3] Vox Media acquired the Hotpod newsletter in 2021 as part of plan to expand The Verge . [4] [5] Quah had been running the newsletter for almost seven years. [6] After Hot Pod was acquired by The Verge, Quah started working at Vulture . [7] Quah also hosts his own podcast called "Servant of Pod," which discusses the business side of podcasting. [8] [9] The show was a 2021 Webby Award honoree in the business category. [10] Quah occasionally contributes podcast reviews and criticism to NPR's Fresh Air . [11] [12] He also wrote a book about the podcasting industry. [13]

Quah provided commentary on the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on podcast consumption. [14] For instance, Quah noted that podcast downloads decreased in March 2020, but that in late April 2020 downloads began increasing again. [15] [16] Jim Epstein criticized Quah for supporting government funded public broadcasting. [17] Quah is in support of a decentralized federated business model for NPR because he believes that would allow for an increase in local reporting. [18] Quah worked for Panoply and commented on the benefits of podcast networks. [19] Quah covered the story about Gimlet Media unionizing. [20] Quah opposed Luminary's paywalled business model saying that it "strikes at the ideological heart of the medium." [21] [22] Quah pointed out that a paywalled podcast company will have to be able to beat all the free alternatives in order to do well. [23] Quah covered the plagiarism issues that Crime Junkie ran into. [24] [25] Quah has called the true crime genre the "bloody, beating heart of podcasting." [26] Quah uses multiple podcasting applications but recommends Pocket Casts. [27]

Quah was a juror for the Peabody Awards. [28] Quah has written about how being on the Apple Podcast charts is often meaningless. [29] Quah was an Antitrust Writing Award nominee in 2020. [30] Quah was a 2021 Fortune Creator 25. [31] Tom Jones wrote in Poynter that "No one analyzes the ins and outs of the podcast world better" Quah and that "no one [provides reliable coverage on podcasts] better than Vulture's Nicholas Quah." [32] [33]

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