The Pub's How to Podcast
Here in the twilight of podcasting’s punk-rock/underground/DIY/Kumbaya-we’re-all-in-this-together phase, there are a lot of amazing podcasters who are still eager to share their trade secrets rather than hoard them. This moment won’t last forever, so if you want to be great at podcasting, listen to … read more
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An audio introduction to this playlist.
February 15th, 2017
An audio introduction to this playlist, from Adam Ragusea, host of Current’s The Pub.
Pondering public media and podcasting
February 15th, 2017
Jenna Weiss-Berman is a public radio vet who has gone on to dominate the for-profit podcasting world, starting Buzzfeed’s Another Round and, more recently, her own production company called Pineapple Street Media. In …
On positioning Buzzfeed as an audio publisher
February 15th, 2017
Because I can’t get enough of Jenna Weiss-Berman, here she is in an older conversation with Nieman Journalism Lab director Joshua Benton on his show …
Intelligence as connections
February 15th, 2017
When Mike Pesca left NPR to start his own daily podcast at Slate called The Gist, it was like King Kong had broken out of his cage. His enormous, pent-up creative and intellectual energy spilled into what I think is …
Talking craft with Terry
February 15th, 2017
Terry Gross’s Fresh Air sounded like a podcast decades before podcasting existed, so it’s not surprising that her successful NPR radio show is also a …
Scoring stories with original music
February 15th, 2017
This American Life producer Jonathan Menjivar is probably the preeminent thinker on how to use music as scoring for podcasts/radio. Here he is talking specifically about how to work with original music on Rob …
Mastering audio for great results
February 15th, 2017
British mastering engineer Ian Shepherd makes an entire show about the audio production step that is most tragically neglected by podcast producers: mastering! In this episode of “The Mastering Show,” Shepherd does a …
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