Podcast downloads drop during coronavirus outbreak

What's happening: Many fewer people are commuting, and "everyone just wants the news, on TV and online, not a true crime podcast," per WWD.

But so many people are at home, with all that commute time gone, so more people are making podcasts, the New York Times' Reggie Ugwu writes.

• Mike Pesca, host of the long-running daily podcast "The Gist," said the pandemic could soon be regarded as the format’s breakout moment.
• He compared it to World War II, when Edward R. Murrow’s man-on-the-street radio broadcasts after the bombings in London captured the attention of anxious Americans at home.