Transom→ A Feast For Your Ears
2020-06-09 One of my favorite episodes of Code Switch is about the explanatory comma. In short, the hosts explore this question: When should cultural context be given when talking about race and culture. (As they put it in the episode, how long is NPR going to sa …›
Transom→ Recording Kit Tune Up
2020-06-03 Your Equipment Matters I have a confession to make: even though I love sound, I don’t really like sound equipment. It’s expensive, for one. Also, the names are either a charmless mess of letters and numbers that I can never keep straight, o …›
Transom→ The Recesses Of Jay’s Mind
2020-05-26 I’m keenly aware that HowSound is a fairly mainstream podcast in the way it’s written and produced. Sure, I’ve featured a lot of experimental work on the show. But, the overall approach to how I produce HowSound is, I’d say, middle-of-the-road. …›
Transom→ Pandemic ER: Notes From A Nurse In Queens – The Hour
2020-05-19 Inadequate To The Moment Just as the spread of Covid-19 was escalating across the United States, Samantha Broun suggested I record my response to her concerned friendly email about what the heck I was witnessing as a nurse on the front lines here in Qu …›
Transom→ AfroQueer And Podcasting In Kenya
2020-05-12 In the last episode of HowSound, I posed a question to producers: What do you stand for? When I interviewed Selly Thiam for this episode, I didn’t need to ask. The answer is right there. Front and center. “Being a part of the society that you&# …›
Transom→ Our Show – The Hour
2020-05-01 Dealing With A Pandemic By Making Something When the lockdown started, I called my son’s school to see if they needed volunteers to prepare lunches. They didn’t. I called the local hospital and, not surprisingly, they didn’t need unskilled volunt …›
Transom→ What Do You Stand For?
2020-04-28 My daughter and I were sitting in a Thai restaurant eating dinner and she was kind of freaked. Actually, a lot freaked. She told me this story . . . Her high school volleyball coach nominated her to attend a student leadership conference. She spent the …›
Transom→ Zencastr
2020-04-25 The face-to-face interview is a fundamental element of a lot of audio journalism. Much of the content here on Transom is devoted to tools and techniques for making an interview sound as natural and engaging as possible. That said, getting in the same r …›
Transom→ Gathering Scene Tape While Reporting From A Closet
2020-04-14 Reporters and producers are scrambling. Because of social distancing and shelter-in-place orders due to COVID-19, they’re having to figure out how to report from home. The new circumstances raise lots of reporting questions: How do I record a phone i …›
Transom→ Take A Walk With Your Mic
2020-03-31 Just the other day, I walked a beach near my house in Woods Hole. A serious wind blew out of the north. The waves roared a dense, white noise. The sound was inescapable. It was so loud, I could barely hear my footsteps in the sand. After the beach stro …›
Transom→ Pandemic ER: Notes From A Nurse In Queens
2020-03-29 From Transom’s Samantha Broun: Kate O’Connell is a radio producer who studied at our nine-week Story Workshop in Woods Hole. She’s also a nurse in an emergency room at a hospital in Queens, NY. When the coronavirus pandemic began to e …›
Transom→ Our Show
2020-03-25 Our Show is a mini-podcast-series produced by Rumble Strip, created in response to the coronavirus. It’s a show that we make all together. People all over the planet are — essentially — experiencing the same thing, bu …›
Transom→ Grabaciones durante la pandemia del coronavirus
2020-03-23 Estamos enfrentando una crisis global sobre una enfermedad infecciosa, y —comprensiblemente— tanto a reporteros como a productores les preocupa cómo protegerse a sí mismos y a sus entrevistados. Es importante recalcar que aquí en Transom n …›
AIR→ A Word from AIR and COVID-19 Resources for freelancers
2020-03-13 From our CEO, Ken Ikeda: The effects of the COVID-19 outbreak can be felt everywhere and could last for many more months. We at AIR want to communicate our support for the freelancers and small businesses among our membership, peer institutions and fri …›
INN Labs→ Pym.js Embeds version 1.3.2.3: Now with AMP ⚡️ support!
2020-03-06 It's hard to do truly custom interactives work within WordPress. INN Labs' Pym.js Embeds plugin is built to make it easier for your newsroom to embed your latest data project, with help from NPR's Pym.js library. Other solutions often involve p …›
AIR→ World Radio Day Discounted Membership
2020-02-13 In honor of #worldradioday we’re offering a 30% discount for new and lapsed members.Visit airmedia.org/join, select 1 year student or individual memberships, and use promocode RADIODAY. This discount is good for today only so move quickly. …›
AIR→ Introducing AIR’s new Engagement Strategist
2020-02-11 Erin McGregor joined AIR as its new Engagement Strategist on January 21st. AIR’s CEO, Ken Ikeda, explains her new role as “a combination of member engagement, partnership development and oversight of our online platform, which is relaunching in ear …›
RadioPublic→ Gain: How James launched and promotes Filter Stories
2020-02-07 Welcome to Gain, an interview series where we ask podcasters about the backstories of the great work they’re creating. Today, we’re speaking with James Harper, creator and host of Filter Stories, a documentary-style podcast about coffee and people. …›
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AIR→ Rate Guide: Editing and Content Strategy
2020-01-08 Everyone needs an editor. Yes, even you. Good editors bring an experienced ear to the whole story, and that can make a world of difference. And even if you know precisely what you’re doing, you also need someone with an experienced eye on the big pic …›
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ I Spent Three Years Running a Collaboration Across Newsrooms. Here’s What I Learned.
2019-12-13 by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together hundreds of newsrooms around th …›
AIR→ AIR x WHYY: Print to Radio Bootcamp
2019-12-10 Are you a Philly-based print reporter looking to venture into audio storytelling? AIR and WHYY are partnering to offer a weekend-long audio training bootcamp, January 11–12, that will provide print journalists with the skills they need to expand thei …›
INN Labs→ WordPress vs. Drupal: Which CMS is Best for You?
2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›
AIR→ Introducing: The Winter 2019 Full Spectrum Cohort
2019-11-22 We’re proud to welcome the Winter 2019 class to AIR’s Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive. This group brings together makers from throughout the United States, and spans a wide range of interests including audio ephemera, communal listening experi …›
AIR→ We’re going to be at Third Coast this week! Find our table for swag and conversation.
2019-10-28 The entire AIR staff will be at Third Coast this week and we’re thrilled to meet (or reconnect) with AIRsters and beyond in attendance at the conference. Visit our table to meet our team and get to know our New Voices and AIR ambassadors who will …›
AIR→ Introducing: AIR’s 2019 Claiming the Rad in Radio Fellows
2019-10-28 October 28, 2019—In an effort to bring more sustainable support to women-identifying producers of color in media, AIR has paired five mentors with mentees through our inaugural Claiming the Rad in Radio Fellowship. We’re excited to announce the pai …›
AIR→ Meet this Member! | Elliott Peltzman
2019-10-24 Editor’s note: “Meet this Member!,” is an interview series that spotlights AIRsters doing outstanding work in the audio and media industry. This week we feature composer and audio producer, Elliott Peltzman. 1) Where are you based an …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Building a Database From Scratch: Behind the Scenes With Documenting Hate Partners
2019-10-23 by Rachel Glickhouse For nearly three years, ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project has given newsrooms around the country access to a database of personal reports sent to …›
AIR→ Rate Guide: Engineering and Composition
2019-10-22 Though radio transmitters have been broadcasting for more than a century, the emerging podcast industry is disrupting traditional models of audio production. Experienced audio engineers, recordists, sound designers, and composers all bring vital skil …›
INN Labs→ Do’s and Don’ts of WordPress Security
2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›
Want to find time for more enterprise reporting? Dive into analytics.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Analytics don’t have to clash with journalistic values. Here’s how the Buffalo News used analytics to reinforce its mission.
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Collaborative Data Projects Easier: Our New Tool, Collaborate, Is Here
2019-09-11 by Rachel Glickhouse On Wednesday, we’re launching a beta test of a new software tool. It’s called Collaborate, and it makes it possible for multiple newsrooms to work …›
INN Labs→ NewsMatch Pop Up Best Practices
2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›
INN Labs→ Introducing our newest Largo redesign: Workday Minnesota
2019-08-16 Workday Minnesota began publishing in 2000 with support from Minnesota’s labor community and was the first online labor news publication in the United States. Since then, Workday has won many awards and has grown to be a trusted source for news …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Working Together Better: Our Guide to Collaborative Data Journalism
2019-08-14 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re launching a guidebook on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets. Since our founding 11 years ago, ProPublica h …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Sense of Messy Data
2019-08-07 Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press I used to work as a sound mixer on film sets, noticing any hums and beeps that would make an actor’s performance useless after a long …›
INN Labs→ Announcing Largo 0.6.4
2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›
“It was hard to take Nazi memes all that seriously when they were sandwiched between sassy cats”
Syracuse’s Whitney Phillips — scholar of the darker corners of Internet culture, author of “The Oxygen of Amplification,” last seen here offering this dire observation/prediction last winter — has a new paper out in Social Media + Society that might make be a bracing experience for some Nieman Lab readers. When we think of the…