Stan Alcorn
@stan-alcorn.bsky.social
investigative reporter / radio producer in Colombia; formerly @Reveal @MarketplaceAPM @WNYC @FastCompany; stan dot alcorn at gmail; if you're looking for my old "viral audio" story, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/ViralAudio
For Audubon Magazine, I profiled Esteban Valdivia, a musician and archaeomusicologist with a bold theory about ancient American instruments that raises questions about the origins of music and the knowability of the past. www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...
Meet the Metalhead Turned Anthropologist Who Plays Ancient Instruments Inspired by Birds
In concerts, YouTube videos, and books, Esteban Valdivia shares how musical artifacts can reveal long-lost knowledge of avian species.
audubon.org
Can a new financial instrument help save the spectacled bear? For the last few months, I’ve been investigating "biodiversity credits" with Colombian reporter Tomás Uprimny Añez, and this week, our first story is out on @planetmoney.bsky.social
The habitat banker
Planet Money · Episode
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If you work in podcasts, you probably think you know the story of Spotify over the last five years. But you might *not* know what happened in Latin America. I talked to a dozen producers to write it up for @restofworld.org:
How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom
In Latin America, “podcast” and “Spotify” became synonymous; now the audio industry is reckoning with the company’s retreat.
restofworld.org