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The rumors are true: Normal Gossip and Radiotopia from Prx are going public. The highly acclaimed and popular podcast about the weird, strange world of normal people’s gossip and the award-winning network of independent podcasts announced a new partnership. To celebrate this new union, “Normal Gossip” will return with a new season of the podcast on Wednesday, April 5 as part of Radiotopia.

Co-created by Kelsey McKinney and Alex Sujong Laughlin for Defector Media, “Normal Gossip” launched in 2022. The podcast has released three seasons of episodes featuring juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal stories which are anonymized and told to a guest.

McKinney and Laughlin will retain creative and intellectual ownership and control the production of “Normal Gossip,” reflecting the ideals of both Defector Media and Radiotopia. Radiotopia will provide support in areas including technology and distribution, advertising sales, and marketing and promotion.

"We’re psyched to be working with the team at Radiotopia,...

With Florida governor and expected Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis making headlines for rejecting an Advanced Placement course on African American Studies, Hulu’s six-part docuseries “The 1619 Project” couldn’t be better timed. What started as an initiative from The New York Times reassessing slavery’s lingering impact on our nation even in the 21st century sparked a conservative backlash, making top journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones both a star and a target in the process. In some ways, that backlash has only fueled “The 1619 Project’s” momentum, which already includes a bestselling book and now this Oprah Winfrey-produced docuseries on Hulu.

Taking a departure from the initial project, which leans more heavily on the past (which has been a contentious point even with some historians), this docuseries, steered by Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams (“Music By Prudence”), producer Shoshanna Guy, and Hannah-Jones (a MacArthur genius who is also...