Today we released the first episode of our weekday evening recaps of the day’s news. We decided to start doing these radio style news updates due to the lack of quality English news here in Taiwan. Every weekday, before 18:30 we will release a short news recap of the day. The idea is that it will be recorded and released just before most people clock off work, meaning they will be able to listen to it on their way home, or as they are winding down for the day. Our news recaps are all going to be purposefully short, between three and ten minutes, so you don’t need to carve out a big portion of your day to tune in. We really hope you can give feedback.
Our first episode for June 7th, 2021 can be found here:
We are hoping that within the next day or so, the major podcast platforms will have updated their directories to include Formosa Today, and at that time you will be able to listen to us through your favorite app or website. For now, the link above should allow you to listen easily.
Good work. Taiwan-based podcasts in English are…less useful than they are common.
If you want feedback, try to get this in various podcast platforms. If it appeared in my feed, I probably would listen daily but am not going to hunt down ‘buzzsprout’ to play on my computer.
I was doing a video diary reporting events here on covid. I’ll do one more then I’m done with it. This is all so depressing and it’s all been said before the world over since the start. I’ll do one more then quit until I have mostly good and positive news to report. This is all very very depressing to me.
We are now also on multiple podcast apps and websites, such as Apple Podcasts, but these sites are often slow to update their feeds (especially for new podcasts) so if you can’t see the latest episode on your favorite app yet you can listen to us right from our host Buzzsprout.
This is great. While I’m not living in Taiwan, I’d love to listen to this daily to keep abreast of what’s going on. Any chance you can get it on YouTube, Spotify, or Podomatic? Or how about a Facebook page to get updates so I can be reminded to check it out when a new episode launches? I’m afraid I’m not going to download an extra app for one podcast, no matter how much I like it.
Do you have a podcatcher you’re using right now? On iOS you’ve got Apple Podcast by default.
I’m using Antenna Pod, because it’s customisable and it takes the podcast from all big hosting platforms.
We are working to get this onto all the major podcasting apps, but submission processing times vary. YouTube is a good idea, and we will start uploading there too from tomorrow.
Today’s episode is now live, and things are looking good on the COVID front!
In other news, we are now on Google Podcasts, so whether you use an Apple or Android device, you should be able to listen to us on an app already installed on your phone/tablet.