“This film documents the life of artist Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family, whose Purdue Pharma aggressively marketed its Ox圜ontin painkiller-a substance largely responsible for America’s opioid crisis. “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (HBO | Max)

HBO Documentary Films in association with Submarine Deluxe and Sideshow a Kiterabbit Films and Rise Films production in collaboration with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital.” “Two brothers devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. As the only international reporters remaining in the city while Russian forces close in, they capture what will become some of the most defining images of the war-dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.”

“A team of Ukrainian journalists are trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol as they endeavor to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. The Peabody Award nominees for documentary, news, public service and radio/podcast, listed by category and in alphabetical order (network/platform in parentheses) are: DOCUMENTAR Y Variety serves as media partner for the awards ceremony, which will be produced by Bob Bain Productions. having previously been held in New York (and virtually over the past four years during the pandemic and Hollywood strikes). Peabody is based at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This reps the Peabody Award’s return to an in-person event for the first time since 2019, and also its first time in L.A. The 84th annual Peabody Awards will celebrate those winners with a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday, June 9. “Within an increasingly diverse and constantly evolving media ecosystem, Peabody believes these nominees deserve special recognition for crafting bold stories that continue to inspire us, but also challenge us to do better.”Īdditional nominations in categories including entertainment, arts, children’s/youth and interactive & immersive will be announced on Thursday, April 25, with winners revealed on May 9. Even artists like Taylor Swift, who once pulled the entirety of her catalog off Spotify in protest for how it compensates artists, now make their music available widely on Spotify without limit.“From exposing injustice to capturing the struggles and triumphs of inspirational figures across the world, these extraordinary nominees demonstrate the power and beauty of compelling storytelling,” said Peabody exec director Jeffrey Jones in a statement. (Singles needed to be available to all Spotify listeners.) But it was unusual for artists or labels to actually do that. In 2017, music labels renegotiated their licenses with Spotify to include a clause giving them and artists the option to make a new album available only to Spotify's paying subscribers for two weeks. Paywalls on Spotify have some precedent, but they're rare. Premium subscriptions strip out ads and include other perks, like downloads, but on the whole, the library hasn't had any restricted sections. Spotify's tradition for years has been an open catalog that users could hear nearly without limits. Spotify didn't provide any pricing specifics for the audiobook titles. In the last decade, the number of audiobooks has exploded: The APA counted 73,898 titles published last year, more than 10 times the number of titles in 2011.ĭespite the hype around live audio chatrooms like Clubhouse during the pandemic, audiobooks are far more popular, according to market research company Forrester.Īudiobooks brings Spotify into individual title purchases - essentially, opening a store and asking you to pay title by title, or a la carte. Audiobook revenue for publishers increased 25% last year to $1.6 billion, according to the Audio Publishers Association trade group. The format, though less popular than music and podcasts in the US, is growing.

As culture at large has shifted to streaming as the most common way people listen to music, Spotify has emerged as the world's dominant music service, with 433 million total listeners worldwide.įor the last three years, it has aggressively expanded into podcasts, reframing itself as the world's go-to service for audio more broadly.Īudiobook streaming is the next frontier in Spotify's quest to be your go-to place for all kinds of audio. The move broadens Spotify beyond tunes to yet another variety of audio.

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