What is News and how do members work?

News (the section previously called "Off Mic") turns your website's news articles into a members newsletter. In an article's editor, set Who Can Read It to Members Only: visitors then see the opening of the post plus a join card, and the post wears a Members badge in your News listings. Readers join with their email and can sign in three ways: a one-time emailed sign-in link, a password created on Podspun's central member page, or Google. One Podspun member account works across every show they belong to.

Posts email themselves to your members the first time they publish (turn that off per site with Email Posts To Members Automatically under Payments & Pricing), and the article's Config tab keeps a Send to Members button for sending by hand; nothing is ever sent twice. The News workspace in your account is home base, under Shared Posts in the sidebar next to Quizzes & Games, with its own sections: Posts lists every post per website with a Write a Post button that opens a live editor of your own site, and each row has a checkbox: select posts (or select all) and Delete Selected removes them for good after you type DELETE to confirm; Members shows who joined with each member's tier (Free or Paid) and a Remove action (removal signs them out and closes members-only posts to them right away); Post Ideas reads your audience; Payments & Pricing holds Stripe and your prices.