"In this process," Mr. French wrote, "several journalist speakers were put on the joint Leading Authorities-AHIP Speakers Network site".
Daily Kos, the left-leaning political blog, on July 23 published an entry by a regular contributor, Eve Gittelson, with the headline "NBC & PBS 'journalists' grace AHIP speakers network".
Ms. Gittelson, whose blog entries are signed nyceve, wrote that Nancy Snyderman and Robert Bazell of NBC, and Susan Dentzer of "The News Hour on PBS, participate in AHIP's speakers network, after seeing them listed on its Web site.
As it turned out, the journalists' listing on the AHIP speakers network Web site had been a mistake, brought about by a mix-up regarding their association with a different company, Leading Authorities, which contracts speakers to various businesses and universities.
It joins together the talents of Ossé — a former attorney, a veteran of interview-based podcasting, and the co-founder of the Loud Speakers Network ("The Read," "Brilliant Idiots") — and those of Gimlet Media, the podcasting company co-founded, in 2014, by the longtime "This American Life" producer Alex Blumberg.
Reggie Ossé, the host of the great "Combat Jack Show" and the co-founder of the Loud Speakers network, collaborated with Gimlet to produce his first narrative podcast, "Mogul," about the legendary hip-hop executive Chris Lighty, who died, of apparent suicide, in 2012.
Through The Loud Speakers Network, Taxstone got his own showed titled Tax Season that aired in March of 2015, and it was a breakout hit.
He might, for example, pluck images from a political convention — a balloon drop, a speaker, a network camera — that never appeared together, and put them in the same frame.
Hopefully the opportunities to work in the field of forensic phonetics will be expanded in the future to develop an even more effective speaker recognition network.
