On Air Fest, one of many podcast trade’s prime festivals, has added actor Alex Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, and NPR’s “Code Change” to its 2026 public lineup, together with podcast stars Adam Friedland, Kara Swisher and Pablo Torre to the pageant’s invite-only occasion.
The Brooklyn-based occasion, scheduled to happen between Feb. 23-26, will function Baldwin bringing his present, “Right here’s the Factor,” to a stay setting; Gladwell will do the identical with “Revisionist Historical past.” NPR co-hosts Gene Demby and B.A. Parker will talk about “Code Change,” and Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway will speak about internet hosting ten years of “Odd Heaps,” which broke new obtain data this yr.
Different new additions to the main-stage lineup embrace “Tune Exploder” host Hrishikesh Hirway and “This Day: A Historical past Present” host Jody Avirgan of Radiotopia, a particular session of “Creation Delusion” with “This American Life” star Sean Cole and “The City Present” co-hosts and comedians Mark Chavez and Ryan Bell, amongst others.
The second day of the four-day pageant contains the invite-only Podcast Enterprise Summit, a partnership with Bloomberg that includes stars who’ve damaged floor in podcasting and are paving the best way for its future.
This yr’s occasion, hosted by Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carmen, will function Friedland, Swisher, Torre, Paper Kite Productions’ Jenna Weiss-Berman and “The Telepathy Tapes” host Ky Dickens. Gradual Creator Fund’s Megan Lightcap and Goalhanger’s Jack Davenport may even seem on the summit.
The gathering of podcast stars will be part of the beforehand introduced names for the pageant, together with former CNN host and “The Don Lemon Present” star Don Lemon; “The Task” host Audie Cornish; and writer Roxane Homosexual; the English/Spanish present “La Brega.” There’s additionally a chance to pitch ESPN executives on a present as a part of ESPN 30 for 30’s programming. Its public programming — which can span Williamsburg places just like the Wythe Lodge, Arlo Williamsburg and The XX Venue — takes place between the twenty fifth and twenty sixth.
On Air Fest has seen the likes of Seth Meyers, Norah Jones, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, David Remnick, Anderson Cooper, Terry Gross, Francis Ford Coppola, Ira Glass, and Astead Herndon grace its levels because it started in 2018.
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