2025-05-14 While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ourselves examining music and talk beamed down from satellites orbiting the earth. Satellite radio as …›
2025-05-12 The new program is based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed “Song Exploder” podcastKALW Public Media headquartered in San Francisco is now airing a new weekly radio program Song Exploder Remix, based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed …›
2025-05-09 PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas from June 16–18Registration is now open for free events taking place at Apple’s campus, co-presented with PRX, KUT & KUTX Studios, and The Drag Audio Production House. …›
2025-05-05 “In the Dark” from The New Yorker won for Audio Reporting and “40 Acres and a Lie” was named a finalist for Explanatory ReportingThe Pulitzer Prizes today announced winners in the 2025 awards. Two PRX show partners were honored, including the w …›
2025-04-30 Free multi-day experiences for all podcasters will include workshops and learning sessions focused on the craft and art of productionPublic media organization PRX today announced Podcast Creator Summits in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, inviting …›
2025-04-24 “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing the Wiz” will be previewed as an Official Audio Storytelling SelectionThe Tribeca Festival today announced its 2025 audio storytelling lineup, which will include multiple audio production partners of public media …›
2025-04-24 Radiotopia from PRX Announces “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz,” A New Podcast Series and 2025 Tribeca Festival Official SelectionThe series launches in June 2025Independent podcast network Radiotopia from PRX today announced Radiotopia …›
2025-04-15 Public Service and Radio/Podcast nominees include “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” “In the Dark,” and “This American Life”The Peabody Awards today announced multiple nominees in its 85th annual awards. The podcast series Long Shadow: In Gu …›
2025-04-11 The investigative public radio show and podcast is distributed by PRXThe American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the winners of the prestigious 60th annual National Magazine Awards. The investigative public radio show Reveal won for podc …›
2025-04-03 Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Releases “The Final Service,” A New Podcast Exploring the Decline of Church LifeThe series hosted by Ray Suarez and Mateo Schimpf is distributed by PRXCommonwealth Club World Affairs of California tod …›
2025-03-20 "Faced with the loss of public media’s chief financier, how do we evaluate the performance of CPB itself?" The post Who benefits most from CPB funding? A state-by-state look at station grants appeared first on Current. …›
2025-03-19 Radiotopia from PRX Welcomes “Proxy” from Yowei Shaw, “Never Post” hosted by Mike Rugnetta, and “Selects” to the NetworkRadiotopia’s spring 2025 podcast releases also include “Key Change” from “Song Exploder,” a new season of “ …›
2024-07-16 I think this happens to reporters a lot. They see someone who looks interesting. They chat with them, and they think, “Hunh, maybe there’s a story here.” It happened to David Weinberg. Back in 2016 or so, David was producing a series on South Los …›
2024-07-11 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I recently read a thread in UKAN — a listserv for U.K. audio producers — about people considering leaving the audio industry. It was heartbreaking to read about so many …›
2024-07-02 One of my favorite past times is sending music to friends, usually a link to a song sent by text. Punk, dub, and experimental music to my friends Sven and Matthias. Avant-garde classical and electronic music to Carla… For my daughter, Gwen, I usually …›
2024-06-17 I picked up on something Ira Glass said in the last episode of Sound School that I want to highlight here. Rather than structuring a story as a collection of arguments and ideas, structure it as a narrative, a sequence of events. This happened, then th …›
2024-06-06 Hello! Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This month there’s a few brilliant opportunities for makers who are underrepresented in different ways — those in the Global Majority, those working in a lan …›
2024-06-04 I started counting the number of valuable tips Ira Glass of This American Life offers on this episode of Sound School and I gave up. There were too many. Tips on writing, reporting, structure, scoring… In fact, I think this rare recording I’m featu …›
2024-05-21 I remember thinking: Uh, oh. We hired the wrong translator. I was in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro to be exact, reporting a story on pretrial detention — a netherworld between arrest and arraignment. In Rio and many places around the world, once someone …›
2024-05-07 (I recommend you listen to this episode before reading this post or listening to the audio excerpt below. All of it will make much more sense.) Back in the aughts, one of my students was producing a profile of a singer songwriter. During editorial meet …›
2024-05-02 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. In some personal news, I’m headed to New York for the first two weeks of June to host an In The Dark event at the Tribeca festival — I would love to meet some audio mak …›
2024-04-23 Right this minute, I’m riding an Amtrak train, heading home after visiting my daughter at college. It’s supposed to be a day off. No work. I thought I’d read a book (In case you’re wondering, I packed two: Mama’s Last Hug and How the Garcia G …›
2024-04-16 Note from Sarah Geis: This manifesto is made up of excerpts of interviews I did with fellow members of the core production team: Yohance Lacour, Bill Healy, Erisa Apantaku and Dana Brozost-Kelleher. But the podcast could not have been made without the …›
2024-04-09 During the first couple of minutes of this episode, I take NPR to task for the preponderance of two-ways on the network’s news programs. In particular, my distaste for host interviews with reporters where everything sounds so unsurprising. This is es …›
2024-04-04 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. You might know me as an organiser of resources, but I’m an audio maker too! Last month I wrote an article for Transom, The Many Lives of “Dead Ends”, about a piece I …›
2024-04-02 Looking for a Signal We’ve spent the last five years using our perspective as scientists and funders not only to figure out why exceptional independent creators make the things they make, but to create an ecosystem that amplifies their signal. …›
2024-03-26 Dale Lumsden taught me how to cut tape — as in reel-to-reel tape. I call his teaching approach “The Lumsden Method.” The way Dale did it was this: He straightened himself up at the mic. Got his copy ready. Cleared his throat. Hit record. And …›
2024-03-19 Searching for Story A big “thing” happened early on in my life: my Mum died. When I was three years old she fell off of a cliff while on a work trip in Spain. Her death was ruled an accident, and I grew up knowing that to be true, but as a teenager …›
2024-03-12 We’re revisiting a valuable episode recorded in 2016 for this installment of The Sound School Podcast. Despite my severe hesitation around recording in stereo (I practically break out in hives just thinking about it), I put together the following FAQ …›
2024-03-07 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and this month there’s some suitably great opportunities for women in audio. Within events there’s the International Women …›
2024-02-27 A journalist friend of mine once joked, “This is how journalists count: One. Two. Trend.” Just in case it doesn’t make sense, I’ll explain. Reporters often seek to report stories on trends. If a bunch of houses go up for sale in a neighborhood, …›
2024-02-15 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This is my first All Hear as a freelancer… I haven’t been fully freelance since I left university (when it was just a thinly veiled disguise for “unemployed …›
2024-02-13 I remember talking to Matej Praprotnik, the Assistant Director of Radio at Radio Slovenia, and practically demanding that he “Get Maja out of the studio!” In another meeting, this time with Mirko Stular, the Director of Radio, I made the same state …›
2024-01-30 One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in a radio studio — maybe the strangest thing I’ve seen — happened during a class on DJing I was teaching at KUNV, a community radio station in Las Vegas. A student sat down in front of the mix …›
2024-01-18 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I hope everyone had a lovely and restful holiday. There are loads of great opportunities this month, some stand out ones including the Storyhive Video Podcast Program for e …›
2024-01-16 When you listen to Martine Powers narrating The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop from The Washington Post, here’s what you don’t see and hear: This effort — several hours of tracking for just one episode — is in service of recording the be …›
2024-01-02 It’s hard to imagine an experienced storyteller like Jonathan Goldstein feeling anxious about writing and putting a story together. But he says the anxiety is always there. Ever since he was a kid and he had a story from school to tell his parents, …›
2023-12-28 CONTENT NOTE: This piece contains brief mention of suicidal ideation and ableism. CONCEPT AND PROCESS The process of being diagnosed as autistic is tough. It involves reflecting on all the ways in which your life experience aligns with the …›
2023-12-26 Remember the Lockdown Times? The Stay-at-Home, it’s Safer to Not Breathe Each Others’ Air times? The Overemoting from the Waist Up, while Slumping in PJ’s at 4pm from the Waist Down, Hoping your Screen would Share, your Wifi Wouldn’t Glitch, yo …›
2023-12-21 My wife called me a psycho after she first heard this story. I admit, it hits a little harder coming from her. Not because she’s my wife, but because she works as a clinical psychologist. Running After Lulu was recorded over two hours one eveni …›