We’re launching a new podcast today – the Sceptic. Not to be confused with the Weekly Sceptic, the podcast hosted by Nick Dixon, the Sceptic is a podcast in which Laurie Wastell, our new Associate Editor, interviews the authors of our most talked-about, widely-read pieces each week. We’re planning to publish it every Thursday and you can either watch it on YouTube here or listen to it on your favourite podcasting app via Podbean here. Or you can just watch it or listen to it on the website by clicking on the embeded links below.
In future – possibly as soon as next week – we’ll also publish a premium version of the podcast that will be accessible to everyone donating at least £5 a month or £50 a year, so that will be another perk of being a regular donor in addition to being able to comment below the line. As with the free version, you’ll be able to listen to it on your favourite podcasting app, only with the premium version you’ll have to use the RSS feed we’ll publish on the website, along with instructions about how to use it. Or you can just listen to it on the website.
We’re also going to be unveiling another feature that only our regular donors will have access to – a Discord server that will enable users to discuss articles in the Daily Sceptic with their authors, as well as the editors and each other. In addition to hosting the podcast, Laurie will be the host of this new community.
Finally, regular donors will be able to read one article a day that’s behind a paywall. The rest of our content will still be available to everyone, whether donors or not, but these articles will only be readable by our financial supporters.
The thinking behind this, apart from growing the Daily Sceptic’s audience, is to encourage more people to donate at least £5 a month or £50 a year so we can make the site sustainable over the long term. Getting advertising, with the occasional noble exception, is proving extremely difficult thanks to the efforts of so-called anti-misinformation agencies like NewsGuard. So encouraging more people to become regular donors seems like the best way forward. If you want to become a regular donor in anticipation of all these new benefits, you can do so here.
In the first episode of the Sceptic, Laurie interviews me where I talk about these plans in more detail; our Environment Editor Chris Morrison, who talks about his article last week about why good climate news is buried by the mainstream media; the Norwegian journalist Kathrine Jebsen Moore, who tells him about why Norway’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine makes her ashamed of her country; and law professor David McGrogan, who talks about the real agenda of human rights lawyers.
The episode has been produced by our other Associate Editor, Richard Eldred, who used to be a director/editor at CNN, so has mad video editing skills. I hope you enjoy it.
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