James Cridland
Editor at Radioplayer
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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SeniorJames Cridland is an editor and industry strategist with 15+ years at the intersection of traditional radio and new media, currently leading Podnews and the Podcast Business Journal. He has launched and grown profitable collaborative media platforms (media.info), helped build hybrid radio technologies (RadioDNS) and shaped product strategy at the BBC and Virgin Radio, consistently turning technical innovation into measurable audience and revenue gains. An advisor to podcast hosting and tooling firms, he combines hands-on coding and product work with conference-facing thought leadership—regularly briefing broadcasters like the BBC, NPR and CBC. Based in Queensland, Australia, he’s known for pragmatic collaboration, international networks, and an ability to translate radio’s craft into modern digital platforms (and he’ll happily talk about it over a beer).
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
epub10
parser10
reader10
python10
ebook-reader10
phpmyadmin10
gmail10
webextension10
cpp10
osrm10
forwarding10
openstreetmap10
rss10
offline-maps10
safari10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jamescridland/podcastnamespace.org
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Adding new features to podcasting since 2020
Contributions:78 commits, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 19 days
podcastingnew-featurespodcast
opawg/podcast-hosts
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
A JSON list of podcast hosts and a pattern to use in audio URLs
Contributions:118 commits, 24 PRs, 113 pushes in 3 years 4 months
urlspodcasthostsdiasporaaudio
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