Perfect Pitch -- Part Two
By Neenah Ellis, Peter Clowney, Leda Hartman, David Krasnow & Celeste Wesson
Perfect your pitching skills and present your ideas to program producers and editors — or just listen in — as AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) pulls back the curtain to let us in on how stories make it to the airwaves. (more)
Perfect Pitch -- Part One
By Neenah Ellis, Bob Boilen, Jane Feltes & The Kitchen Sisters
Perfect your pitching skills and present your ideas to program producers and editors - or just listen in - as AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) pulls back the curtain to let us in on how stories make it to the airwaves. (more)
Noah's "The Classics"
By Noah Adams
From CF and SD memory cards back to 24-track - with stops for MD, DAT, and cassette - Noah Adams rambles through 30 years of radio production, playing the stories that inspired his own work and that of countless others. (more)
Neo-Futurism: The Joys (and Rewards) of Forced Creativity
By Greg Allen
Greg Allen, the creator of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind -- the show which has spawned nearly 10,000 short plays -- conducts a workshop on generating new material, exploring new forms, and beating writer's block. (more)
Mastering the Grill: Why Some Interviews Go Up in Smoke
By Brooke Gladstone
Some respond to praise, others to badgering, some the frontal assault, others when you sneak up from behind. Brooke Gladstone offers a few interrogation tips (and some audio examples) on how to get your guests to crack and make them like it. (more)
Listening Critically
By Ben Shapiro & James Wehmeyer
Art forms such as film, literature and even TV, generate rich bodies of critcal writing that push the boundaries of what creators do and why, and gives audiences new ways to appreciate the work. (more)
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock: The Story of the Radio Ballads
By Sara Parker
Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads. (more)
Just Listen to Yourself
By Deborah George
A bad editor is a curse. Having a good editor is a blessing but can often be a luxury. Deborah George explains how to work effectively with the editor you’ve been dealt and how to be your own editor if you don’t have one. (more)
The Inner Sound of the Outer World
By Jens Jarisch
Microphones cannot capture situations as they are percieved. A car crash on tape lacks everything that the experience of an accident amounts to: the surprise, the holding of breath, the shock, the sadness. (more)
College: A Hotbed of Emerging Producers -- Part Two
By Beverly Mire, Hammad Ahmed, Michelle Cedeno, Diego Ruiz, Jordan Teklay & Will Wright
All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They’re intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio. (more)
