I was aware of NPR's offerings but not of the others. That tells you something to start with, those offerings aren't being made a centre piece. The Atlantic has

I was aware of NPR's offerings but not of the others. That tells you something to start with, those offerings aren't being made a centre piece. The Atlantic has them buried in a sidebar halfway down their page under a list of authors. They also seem to be fairly infrequent and listening to them briefly they are a turn off due to their over-production. They're also short, 30 min. Why would I want to wait 3 weeks for a 30 minute radio show? Pass. NPR has more on offer, they are listed as a menu item at the top of their site, they are more frequent, unfortunately they're still overdone which is why I don't follow them. The NYT daily is actually a pleasant surprise, they feature it a bit more prominently on their site, I'm listening to one right now and it's a straight up interview which is great, daily releases make up for the shorter run length so I'll try this one out. I think my argument still stands, newspapers are still in the print business. Doing a quick search of other papers seems to show a trend of having a podcast as an afterthought and/or treating it as a way to deliver radio content. Putting a radio show on the internet doesn't make it a podcast. Give me a discussion, a long form interview, something real. I don't want cuts, voiceovers, musical interludes, or scripts. I'm coming down hard on the production quality because it's a sure sign that something has been editorialized to death, generally by a committee of people with competing interests and vanities. Too many cooks spoil the broth.