Are you one of the Northern Virginia commuters trying to take the
edge off your commute by listening to podcasts? Or as you wind down after a
busy day at home or school, do you search for podcasts to bring you the news
without having to go find it?
If you haven’t found the Catholic Herald’s
podcast among the many offerings out there, go to our website — catholicherald.com
— tap the drop-down for Local News and find Podcasts. We are working on making
it more user-friendly with its own drop-down soon. You can also search on Libsyn.
Scroll down the list and see what tickles your fancy.
Mostly, you’ll find a recap of the weekly headlines from the Catholic Herald, sometimes featuring call-in interviews
with the main subject of an article. We have an extended podcast interviewing
two high school chaplains; it’s pretty entertaining. We also have some that are
narrations of specific compelling articles.
This effort started as a video issue recap about a year and half
ago, but has morphed into this headline podcast —a quick way to stay informed
and inspired and connected to your local Catholic community.
We find it’s a nice opportunity to recap the top news for our
readers and help others unfamiliar with the Catholic
Herald find their way to our many offerings from the weekly print
newspaper, to the catholicherald.com website and our weekly emailed
e-newsletter. Not to mention our Social Media presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
and Instagram.
But as with the news business, the podcast is a work in progress.
We keep changing things up from week to week.
Next week, we will produce our 50th podcast. We’d love to hear
from our readers, aka listeners, about what you like or don’t like, and what
you would like to hear more about. Please email us at feedback@catholicherald.com or
leave us a review on iTunes or Stitcher.