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Nicholas Quah
American journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicholas Quah is a journalist for Vulture and is the creator of the Nieman Lab newsletter Hot Pod News.
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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 a 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 is 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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