Nicholas Quah is a journalist for Vulture and is the creator of the Nieman Lab newsletter Hot Pod News.
[3] Vox Media acquired the Hotpod newsletter in 2021 as part of plan to expand The Verge.
[15][16] Jim Epstein criticized Quah for supporting government funded public broadcasting.
[20] Quah opposed Luminary's paywalled business model saying that it "strikes at the ideological heart of the medium.
"[21][22] Quah pointed out that a paywalled podcast company will have to be able to beat all the free alternatives in order to do well.