The Daily Dose: Podcasting and Broadcasting in the Public Interest

This chapter examines The Daily Dose, a Baltimore-based podcast that draws from local public radio’s coverage of an unfolding crisis in such a way as to suggest a model for the public and community functions of radio in the podcast format. The Daily Dose is an example of a wave of local public radio collaborations and innovations in response to several overlapping but distinct emerging contexts. In addition to addressing the pandemic public health crisis, these include responding to the chasms left by newspaper consolidation and disinvestment, diversifying the public that works in and is served by public media, and adapting to a media landscape perched between the competing regimes of analog and digital, immediate and curated, local and ubiquitous.