jeffrey brown reports for our arts and culture series, canvas. >> let's give it up for serial.ration of an industry, the annual on air fest, a showcase for and gathering of the world of podcasting. held, of course, in a hip brooklyn hotel. the first session marked the 10-year anniversary of the podcast that changed everything, sarah koenig and julie snyder's serial. >> how many people have downloaded the first season? do you know? >> oh, probably more than 200 million. jeffrey: in fact, serial has over 300 million downloads to date. and it thrust this medium into the cultural mainstream. today, on-air fest is a launch pad for new shows. >> you are about to get a first listen of her new limited series. jeffrey: a gathering place for industry heavyweights like malcolm gladwell. and even a platform for celebrities from other fields, like grammy award-winning singer-songwriter norah jones. >> why are you here? >> i guess because i have a podcast now. doesn't everybody? jeffrey: it can certainly sound that way. with mega-popular talk shows like joe rogan's provocative interview podc

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for the pbs newshour i'm jeffrey brown. amna: we will be back shortly.take a moment to hear first, from your local pbs station. it is an offer for your support. ♪ amna: for those staying with us, a new book is examining how innovation can lead to gains for all stratus of societies, not just the elite. our economics correspondent meets the author. >> spot the wonder dog, using ai to navigate tricky terrain. already in service today. tomorrow? >> it could be something that helps workers be safer or more productive. o'er the same spot could take people's jobs. i think it is in the balance. reporter: they surveyed the history of technological progress and came to a sobering if familiar conclusion. >> technology changes all the time but it does not turn into shared prosperity. a lot of important steps have and missing from human history. reporter: as in the middle ages. >> take the plow and other improvements in agriculture. productivity increased but not the living conditions of ordinary folk. reporter: in the industrial revolution, textile tech. a power loo

jeffrey brown has the story for our arts and canvas series, canvas. -- arts and culture series, canvasjeffrey: it was a celebration of a local writer, xochitl gonzalez grew up in a working-class neighborhood of brooklyn and was now surrounded by fans and friends at the "the center for fiction", a non-profit literary organization, as she released her new novel, one that comes with some big questions at its heart. xochitl: there's that adage like history is told by the victors - , that includes sometimes art history. and i think that now we have to start questioning like what are, what are the ways in which we decide that something has value? jeffrey: "anita de monte laughs last" is a tale of two women - parallel lives, a generation apart: anita, a cuban-born rising star in the new york art world. raquel, a latina student finding her way at an ivy league college. the latter, gonzaelz told me at her brooklyn apartment, very much based on her own experience. xochitl: you know what's funny? i really thought that we were going to be very different. and then as i was walking her through a day

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jeffrey brown talks to booker prize-winning novelist paul lynch for our arts and culture series, canvas city full of life -- dublin, ireland, for example. its citizens enjoying the benefits of an open and vibrant democracy. until, as democratic norms are stripped away, they don't. the novel aprophet songa captures the impact on one woman, eilish stack, who wakes up to see that now she is living in another country. the author is irish writer paul lynch. paul: we're in an ireland that it seems to be the known ireland, the ireland that i would know, that i live in dublin city. but at the same time it, it's an unknown world. ireland has elected a populist government and things are beginning to slide. and there's a tipping point and nobody sees it. jeffrey: lynch's novel won the booker prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. i have to assume a booker prize is kind of life changing? paul: well, there an adjustment required. i mean so few are selected. and you don't ever believe that you're going to be one of the few, you know? jeffrey: lynch, 46, and author of four previou

jeffrey wayand, one of the personel of the brown and williamson tobacco company leaked significant information about the tobacco industry. michael man made a movie out of the developments named the insider, starring russell crow, who played the role of jeffrey waygan. the movie received accolade by film critics catch you in a lie. they can paint everything with that brush, you understand? everything you say, i told the truth, everything you say, and i can't defend you, man, with one hand tied behind my back, because you keep from me what they can discover, and they will discover everything, believe me, i was young, i was young, there are many documents like that, yet when the scientists were summoned to the us congress to testify about the addictive aspect of nicotin, they all testified that the substance is not addictive. later, it was revealed that most of them were on the payroll of the tobacco companies. as us poet and writer upton bill sinkler said almost a century ago, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. "the owners of

also that nomination made history, jeffrey wright and sterling k. brown>> whit: such a good movie. >> will: very funny too at points. laugh out loud funny. >> all of the things are in that movie, so, yes. >> janai: next up, what do you have for fans of true crime? >> look, we know that the person who does it so well is martin scorsese. "killers of the flower moon" on apple tv+, it's so good. obviously scorsese knows what he's doing and add in leonardo dicaprio and robert de niro but the standout for me is lily gladstone, she is this is an unknown -- essentially unknown story about the murders of the osage tribe and it's so well done and if you can hang in there -- >> whit: it's a bit long. >> it's a lbit long. if you can hang in there, there's going to be a nice end to the film. >> gio: some amazing performances there and marching on to something else for people not afraid to take a stand. what do you got? >> well, you know this well. you've interviewed him. "rustin," colman domingo is a standout and this is a story, of course, about the man who was the a

. >> it reminds me a lot of its way of hollywood shuffle allowed jeffrey wright and sterling k. brown. i really would love america. >> we call it courts movie, but the official americans, eric infection, yes sterling was amazing. yes. and jeff, right? i just love jeffrey wright. he was right. >> i think jay >> jay, do you cheer for deja care for up and i'm now used to >> yeah. i >> oppenheimer first switch was a choice. >> but i >> just i enjoyed it. i found it to be riveting. it's a part of history that i don't know a lot of bow at the repercussions are endless and interesting. and if it was fascinating, i have the acting was good to know what i love that movie cause viral went no, no, no, no. just the true and the kid said that too. if i went to a movie for three hours and it was bad, i would have snapped that's the true that's the true tail. there was a good movie, but three hours, they don't even make three-hour movies anymore. but if you call for three hours in superhero movies, a three-hour, i'm not do have one years old, six to one. i'm waiting on that to come out on the donor