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Hot Pod Reporter

Amrita Khalid covers the podcast and audio industry for The Verge, and is also one of the authors of the newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered the tech industry for more than a decade. She got her start as a general assignment congressional reporter at CQ in Washington, D.C., where she grew interested in tech and surveillance policy. She then went on to write about tech platforms and online communities for The Daily Dot. She’s also held roles at Engadget, Quartz and Inc. Magazine, where she covered the business of tech and the consumer gadget industry. She is based in Los Angeles.

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Amrita Khalid Nov 13

“Indecent materials” has led Nepal to giving TikTok the boot.

“The government has decided to ban TikTok as it was necessary to regulate the use of the social media platform that was disrupting social harmony, goodwill and flow of indecent materials,” said Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash Saud at a cabinet meeting on Monday.

Nepal is the second country to go for a nation-wide ban of the popular social platform — India has also banned TikTok. Countries including the US, UK, and Canada have banned TikTok on government-issued devices.

My six-month dive into podcasting’s very chaotic year

The podcast industry faced numerous challenges this year, including layoffs, the end of big celebrity mega deals, and an overall contraction.

Amrita Khalid

Oct 20|

Creators

How podcasters are talking about the Israel-Gaza war

Ariel Shapiro

and Amrita Khalid

Oct 19|

Amazon

Amazon plans to deploy delivery drones in the UK and Italy next year

Amrita Khalid

Oct 18|

Hot Pod

Apple’s latest iOS update could have a big impact on podcast downloads

Ariel Shapiro

and Amrita Khalid

Oct 17|

Hot Pod

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons: “You can’t just be famous and have a podcast”

Amrita Khalid

Oct 13|

Amrita Khalid Oct 12

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos calls actor’s union request for viewership bonuses “a bridge too far.”

Talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the union’s ongoing strike were derailed on Wednesday evening. One area of contention was the actor’s union request for viewership bonuses.

Sarandos defended the studios, calling the bonuses “a bridge too far to add deep into the negotiations right now,” in a conversation with Bloomberg journalist Lucas Shaw on Thursday morning at the Screentime conference in Los Angeles.