On some online forums, fellow podcasters have been discussing how there appear to be more movers and shakers investing time and attention — and almost certainly money — into podcasts.

N’Jeri Eaton (photo via Netflix)

Well, no sooner did that come up than we saw this article in Bloomberg about how N’Jeri Eaton, former executive with a serious storyteller hat at Apple and NPR is now taking her storytelling skill to Netflix.

Now from the article it sounds like the initial push is to create companion podcasts for some of their existing TV and film projects, but Netflix has been creating new shows with reckless abandon for some time, so we’ll certainly be checking out if they venture into the fiction podcast realm.