From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with Personally from CBC. Funding for NPR is under threat in 2025 after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have written that they intend to take aim at funding for both NPR and PBS. NPR is one of the largest podcast publishers in the US and has trained many producers who work elsewhere. Well, NPR itself earns less than 1% of its funding from the US government, although its member stations earn 14% of their income that way.
In 2023, NPR's total revenue was $318 million, and in the UK, the BBC's revenue from government-mandated licence fees was $4.6 billion, and five times fewer people live in the UK than the US. Eric Nuzum, a former NPR executive, suggests, though, that those at NPR should lead with a concrete vision for the future, rather than take a defensive position. The BBC published its top podcasts of 2024 based on plays within BBC Sounds, the corporation's
proprietary audio app. The BBC's daily news podcast, Newscast, was most popular in a year with a UK and US election. More podcasts are being updated this year and more often. Livewire's visualised podcast index stats has data today showing that 243,000 podcasts were updated in the last 14 days. That's up 2.5% from this time last year. Additionally, 852,000 episodes were published
in the last 14 days as well, and that number is up 7.6%. And Australian podcast producer and journalism professor, Siobhan McHugh, has focused on her 10 best podcasts of 2024. And thank you to Andi Last, who became our latest personal supporter over the holidays. She's the media manager of Pure Financial Advisors, working on the Your Money, Your Wealth podcast, and it's people like Andi who help keep pod news free for everybody. So thank you to her, and thank you to
you. If you would like to be like Andi and support us, you can do that at podnews.net/patreon. It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff, and Tenacity is a fork of the Audacity audio editor, but without the Russian analytics data or licensed dramas. A number of forks were produced after Audacity was acquired by Muse in 2021. Most have now merged into
this project. And if you're running transcripts as part of your production process, like we are, Whisper CPP has been updated in Homebrew, and now lets you use the large turbo model. It offers you more accuracy, and it's much, much faster. And in podcast news, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died.
He was 100 years old. In the Guardian's Politics Weekly, America, Jonathan Friedland talks to Jimmy Carter's biographer, Jonathan Alter, about why history should look favorably on the peanut farmer turned politician. And in the Podnews Weekly review this week, the podcast's power supporters give their views about how 2024 was for them, and what to look forward to in 2025. And this podcast is sponsored by CBC. And from CBC, Personally is the home for intimate
storytelling and memoir. You can get lost in someone else's life in Personally, and the show is now accepting pitches. There's a link in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the stories and subscribe, we're at podnews.net.