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Over the next few weeks Spotify will be rolling out auto-generated podcast transcripts. The new service will start out in beta for select Spotify original and exclusive podcasts. The feature will allow users to read the text of podcasts on their phones either with or without sound.

C13Originals and Vespucci have partnered with actress Elle Fanning to Launch ‘One Click’. Elle Fanning, and journalist Jessica Wapner, former science editor of Newsweek, will explore how a single click on the internet can change a life forever.

Bloomberg Media and iHeart have signed a multiyear agreement to co-produce and distribute over a dozen new original podcasts. The agreement also includes distribution of Bloomberg Media’s slate of over 20 podcasts through the iHeartPodcast Network.

WBGO Studios will be part of Newark Public Radio’s WBGO. WBGO Studios will develop new podcasts to add to the inventory of three existing programs.

Colorado Public Radio has released a new audio documentary that takes a close look at people working to reform policing from inside and outside the system. Systemic, hosted by CPR'S Jo Erickson, will be released in four parts on May 19. TRAILER

Diversion Podcasts has launched Backstaged: The Devil in Metal. Hosted by author and music journalist, Jon Wiederhorn, this 12-episode podcast takes listeners through the history and culture of heavy metal.

Audacy's Cadence13 is partnering with actress Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo. The weekly interview style show called Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo launches in the fall.

'My Cultura' is being launched by iHeartMedia. The standalone venture will focus on Latinx voices and creators.

Audacy and Osiris Media are partnering to create music podcasts. The launch program is Breaking Waves: Seattle, an oral history of the emergence and growth of grunge and alternative music in the city in the 80s and 90s.

Return To Pike County provides updates on the 2016 murders of 8 members of the Rhoden family in Pike County, Ohio. Two years after the murders, the victims’ neighbors, The Wagner Family, were charged with the largest massacre in Ohio’s history.