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Introducing Sound Judgment

Deadlines, production meetings, staff management, show scheduling... in any given day, there's...

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• 2 días

Thanks, NPR. That Was Satisfying.

Have NPR's news magazines occasionally been sounding more radiophonic lately? Rob thinks so. He's...

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• 16 días

The Um, A Deep Dive

"Ums." You're supposed to cut them out, right? But what if the "um" means something? Talia...

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• 30 días

Revisiting: Should I or Shouldn’t I — Recording in Stereo

One of the top three questions Rob often hears when he's teaching is, "Should I record in...

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Small, Random, and Meaningful

In the tsunami of serialized documentary making over the last decade, what happened to the short...

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• 2 meses

For the Love of Radio, Get Out of the Studio!

In honor of World Radio Day this week, The Sound School Podcast is celebrating with a story that...

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• 2 meses

A Triple Whammy

Katz Laszlo says writing and tracking for herself is complicated enough. But it's an even greater...

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• 3 meses

Tracking Partners

It's a brave thing to share the outtakes from a tracking session. All the blemishes are right...

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• 3 meses

Revisiting: Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and The Goldstein

While there were many great podcasts released in 2023, no one will remember the year as a good...

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• 4 meses

Which Is the Better Open?

Rob takes himself to task on this episode. He felt the beginning of the last episode of Sound...

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• 4 meses

Reporting Out at the Edge

Theo Greenly reports for a public radio station in the far-flung Aleutian Islands in Alaska. When...

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• 5 meses

Mixing Fiction with Non-Fiction

Fiction should stay in its corner, non-fiction in its corner. Or so Rob thought until he heard...

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• 5 meses

Interview Strangers on the Street, Make a Podcast

Catherine Carr has turned vox into artful conversation with a deceptively simple question: Where...

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• 5 meses

Revisiting: Remembering Studs

Studs Terkel is considered by many to be a patron saint of documentary radio journalism. It's...

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• 6 meses

Pleasing to the Ear

Rob acts as a story DJ on this episode, featuring excerpts from stories he’s recently found...

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• 6 meses

Salt at 50!

What do radio producers Phoebe Judge (Criminal), Zoe Chase (This American Life), Greg Warner...

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• 7 meses

Revisiting: Dead Mom Talking

This year's Third Coast Festival winners and finalists produced incredible work. It got us...

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• 7 meses

So You STILL Want to Start a Podcast, Eh?

It's unusual for a producer to share a work in progress. It's rarer still to do it twice. Nina...

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• 8 meses

Going Behind the Mic On Climate Change Reporting

Rebecca Hersher, a climate science reporter at NPR, offers excellent tips on reporting on climate...

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• 8 meses

Revisiting: Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas

Summer means cicadas. Those crackly, buzzy bugs that drone and drone in the heat like a live...

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• 9 meses