Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-editors Kim Fox (American University in Cairo) and Aram Sinnreich (American University), recently guest edited a symposium on "The Turn to Podcasts as a Mass Campaign Medium" in The Journal of Radio and Audio Media. The set of research articles focuses on when podcasting’s informal intimacy meets the mass-media scale of national political campaigns, and what this means for democracy. We introduce the symposium in "The Turn in Podcasting: Intimacy, Populism and the Transformation of Political Communication."