{"id":184372,"date":"2025-12-10T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184372\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:57:09","slug":"joe-budden-says-he-doesnt-view-podcasting-as-a-form-of-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184372\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Budden Says He Doesn’t View Podcasting as a Form of J…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Budden<\/a>, now more than a decade deep into podcasting<\/a>, doesn\u2019t see what he and others in the space do as a form of journalism.<\/p>\n

Speaking with<\/a> Jeff Ihaza for Rolling Stone, Budden, who earlier this year came in at No. 3 on Complex\u2019s annual Hip-Hop Media Power Ranking<\/a>, discussed his years-long journey toward podcast dominance. Asked if he viewed podcasting as journalism when he first began his shift into the field, Budden confirmed that he did not, and still doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no. I didn\u2019t see it as journalism,\u201d Budden said, as seen below. \u201cI have a healthy respect for the journalists. I was talking shit, I was talking shit. Journalists were journalisting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Budden conceded that, in some instances, the line between podcasting and journalism is \u201cblurry\u201d these days. Still, he\u2019s a supporter of full-fledged journalists and the important role they play in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s blurry, but I think we still need both,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need the journalists that\u2019s gonna thoroughly vet things, do their due diligence, and uphold their responsibility to all their journalistic integrity and all that shit. I wanna talk shit. I don\u2019t wanna have to uphold the value system. I wanna come and say this is what I see, this is what I think, this is how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Complex alum has been particularly vocal with his thoughts on podcasting at large after hitting the 10-year milestone. In November, during a conversation with Jim Jones<\/a>, he cautioned against prospective podcast personalities rushing to simply \u201ctake a check\u201d instead of developing their platform from a do-it-yourself mindset.<\/p>\n

After a stint with Spotify, Budden is now focused on sustaining his decidedly popular Patreon community<\/a>. In July, in response to a request for comment on a New York Times article<\/a> estimating that the Joe Budden Podcast Network would end the year with more than $20 million to its name, a Patreon spokesperson confirmed that Budden had, at that time, earned more than $1 million<\/a> per month on the platform for the last eight months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Budden, now more than a decade deep into podcasting, doesn\u2019t see what he and others in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-184372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}