Latinx-fronted Hollywood company Exile Content Studio has acquired Dixo, the world’s first Spanish-language podcast network and production company. Under the slogan “We are podcasts,” Dixo launched in Mexico in 2005, producing and curating a slate of informative,...
Audio-first company SomeFriends founded by media execs Andrew Kuo and Kareem Rahma have hired former The Other Two producer Kaylani Esparza as Head of Development to manage and grow the slate of original fiction and non-fiction podcasts. In addition, the company...
Media advocacy organization Define American has released the 2021 edition of “Telling Authentic Immigrant Stories: A Reference Guide for The Entertainment Industry”m a comprehensive reference tool written for content creators, studios and production companies...
iHeartMedia has launched iHeartRadio’s Black and Inspired HBCU Celebration, podcast series that celebrates Black culture and the alumni community of the titular Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). The first episode of the podcast series launches...
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, is developing three new TV and film projects. Both Wattpad and Webtoon have proved to be huge incubators for content, with Netflix’s adaptation of Beth Reekles’ Wattpad story The Kissing Booth and HBO Max’s anime version of the Webtoon...
Let's be honest. As the controversy around Netflix, the Dave Chappelle comedy special The Closer and the trans community (including those that work for the streamer) continued to unfold since the special debuted, it has become a mess that even Marie Kondo can't...
In an effort to help keep tabs on where WarnerMedia is at when it comes to diversity and inclusion, the media company is being transparent with their findings when it comes equity and inclusion with The Power of Stories, a 2020-21 Equity and Inclusion (E&I)...
Black Public Media Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz has joined media leaders from across the country to participate in the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI). The program comes from the Riley Institute at Furman University and is offered in...
It's Bisexual Awarness Week and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and In the Heights star Stephanie Beatriz is here to set the record straight (hehe) on the rumors, myths and all the questions about being bisexual on Netflix's LGBTQIA+ channel Most. Watch the vid below....
