Creating a podcast audience in the Global South is considered one to be one of the holy grails of podcasting right now. This session will hear from people who are already doing it and ask what the cha...
Ramsey Tesdell
Ramsey G. Tesdell is the CEO and partner of Sowt.com, a podcast network based in Amman, Jordan, producing leading Arabic-language shows. He is also a founding partner of 7iber.com, a website about Jordan.
Ramsey was selected as a fellow of the Ford Global Fellowship in 2021 and is an advisory board member to the Google/PRX Podcast Creators Program, and a judge for the Third Coast Audio Festival held in Chicago. Ramsey also spends time mentoring and working with new media startups and focuses specifically on media strategy and business development with ICFJ. Ramsey originally moved to Amman as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. He has a B.S. in rhetoric and communication and an M.S. in technical communication. He lives in Amman with his partner and two children.
New, bold music expressions have been emerging out of the neighborhoods of Cairo and Ramallah, but no matching fresh journalism is there to reflect on that. The world is praising the sound of podcasts...
Creating a podcast audience in the Global South is considered one to be one of the holy grails of podcasting right now. This session will hear from people who are already doing it and ask what the cha...
