Snap Judgment is casting for our first ever tour!

SNAP on tour! They're looking for live storytellers – instructions to audition below.

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Big news guys, 
I'm so excited to share with you all that Snap Judgment LIVE is going on tour. That's right, a gazillion cities, a bazillion theaters, it's all lined up. All we need now are the storytellers. That's where you come in.
Attached to this email is our casting call. Please read it over twice and then hit us with a submission to performers@snapjudgment.org. We'll be accepting videos for the next two weeks so don't delay!
Happy halloween everyone, and thanks in advance for throwing your hat in,

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Making Contact is hiring a managing producer, F/T, open until filled

The SJP award-winning Making Contact is hiring a managing producer. Good work with good people. Details below. -Mia

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Managing Producer

Full Time based in Oakland/Bay Area

 

Making Contact, www.radioproject.org seeks a managing producer with a passion for non-commercial public media. We amplify the voices of community members who are seeking solutions to issues of economic, environmental and social justice. Salary rate DOE.

 

We seek an energetic, passionate, well-organized team-player with leadership experience. The candidate should understand the craft of long-format feature radio production and the art of a good in-depth interview. Strong audio editing and sound mixing skills preferred.

 

The role of the managing producer is to produce and mix editions of Making Contact, and be responsible for supervising and coaching producers. The managing producer delegates to others and is the point-person for scheduling the productions and managing changes. Approx. 65% of their time is spent producing episodes of Making Contact, 15% guiding and supervising producers and production processes and  20% of their time is dedicated to communicating and strategizing with organizational staff regarding online distribution/audience engagement, marketing, and fundraising/development. This position reports to and is in partnership with Making Contact’s executive director.

 

We are looking for someone who is highly productive and enjoys contributing to many facets of new journalism including fostering collaborations with other media outlets and community groups, helping experiment with our digital delivery methods and podcasts, and engaging our broadcast and digital audiences to create impact.  Great post for someone who’s as adept at managing others as they are self-managing their own time and projects.

 

This new hire will join our small yet effective organization consisting of three part-time producers and our pool of freelancers; our marketing, fundraising and administrative staff and contractors.

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

    The same as other producers:

  • produce original radio content and adapt others’ work
  • edit and mix segments and shows
  • apply journalistic standards of fairness, accuracy, due diligence in reporting and fact-checking
  • apply a journalistic approach including inviting input from community members to help identify topics and conceptualize pieces that inform, inspire, and move people to take action.
  • review pitches, commission and edit freelancers’ work
  • participate in show review/evaluation, and work-in-progress listening sessions at staff meetings

    

     Duties distinct from other producers:

  • supervise and coordinate the producers’ work and ensure production calendar and program descriptions are updated
  • In semi-monthly meetings with Executive Director and in thrice-monthly all-staff meetings, discuss editorial plans and strategize about organizational initiatives.
  • Plan and facilitate weekly production meetings make sure others have updated our Podio “Basecamp-type” project management system — ensure communication flows

 

More granular details available in second-round discussions.

 

Required Skills/Experience

Demonstrated writing and script editing skills

Demonstrated audio editing and multitrack sound-mixing skills

Track record of delivering pieces on deadline

Experience managing, coaching and editing radio producers and freelance reporters  

Strong voice-craft skills and experience

Track record of journalistic work –dedicated to fairness, accuracy and fact-checking

Ability to read and synthesize research

Familiarity with key issues of our times and timeless issues

Highly organized and communicative

Commitment to building Making Contact as a whole, and to participating in a team process

Ability to work on collaborative productions and promotions with other media and groups

Enthusiastic about participating in fundraising and audience engagement

Preferred Skills

Entrepreneurial

Multimedia experience:  video, photography, radio plus print packages

Experience with online distribution methods, social media, audience building and engagement

Energetic and able to think on your feet

Sense of humor

 

Making Contact is an affirmative action employer. We actively recruit applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ folks, and disabled people.

Position Open Until Filled. Aiming for start date in Jan 2016. Oakland/Bay Area is job location.

 

Please email resume, cover letter, writing sample (radio script preferred) and links to several radio work samples to lrudman@radioproject.org.

In subject line: MANAGING PRODUCER + First name Last name

 

More info

Our radio programs and podcasts are a blend of evocative storytelling with analysis, and explore the power and relationships between individuals, groups and systems. We’re looking for someone committed to our greater social justice mission and who wants to strengthen Making Contact's non-profit organization as a whole.

 

Making Contact has produced a nationally broadcast, progressive weekly radio series for 20 years. Our high quality public-affairs and documentary radio programs are broadcast on 104 radio stations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia; thousands more listen via our website and podcasts. Our award-winning work has repeatedly been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter, among others.

 

We recently completed a crowdfunding effort to fuel our miniseries coming up in 2016 on Immigrants and Elections, featuring the work of freelancers who are deeply rooted in immigrant communities. We have a paid Community Storytelling Fellowship with one fellow each quarter, working with one producer for 10 weeks. We are active participants in both radio and journalism networks such as The Media Consortium of independent media outlets. We lead or participate in collaborations across platforms and genres; one example is wtfcorporations.com


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$15K Grants for Investigative and Enterprise Business Reporting, deadline Nov 15

Money for biz stories. More info HERE and below. -mia
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Grants Up to $15K for Investigative and Enterprise Business Reporting — Apply by November 15

Got a great idea for an in-depth investigative or enterprise business story, but few resources to get it done?

We’ve got funds — though you’ll need to apply soon!

The deadline is just four weeks away for winter 2015 applications for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. An initiative launched in early 2014 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the McGraw Fellowships provide accomplished journalists with the resources and editorial support to do deeply-reported stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the global economy.

The upcoming deadline to apply is November 15, 2015.

Each Fellow receives $5,000 a month for up to three months
Open to both freelance and staff journalists with five years experience
Applications accepted from both reporters and editors
No residency required; McGraw Fellows work from their own offices

Already, many of our initial McGraw Fellows have produced distinguished work on a wide variety of topics. Nate Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting won an Emmy for story he produced for PBS NewsHour on the questions surrounding the Chinese acquisition of a major U.S. food producer, while a piece by Beth Daley of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting on the growing use of unregulated genetic testshas been picked up by more than a dozen other news outlets. And Maria Perez of the Naples Daily News recently published a bilingual multimedia package on the challenges and opportunities ahead for the Cuban economy as sanctions are eased.

Other McGraw Fellows are working currently on projects exploring such areas as the economic links between the pharmaceutical industry and increased heroin addiction, the growing threat of cyber-attacks on the global financial system, and Silicon Valley’s big bet on meat substitutes.

If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information about the McGraw Fellowships and the online application at www.mcgrawcenter.org. Feel free to contact us with any questions or if you have a project you’d like to discuss.

CONTACT:
Jane Sasseen
Executive Director
McGraw Center for Business Journalism
jane.sasseen@journalism.cuny.edu
646-758-7781

Got a great biz/econ story? Get up to $15K for a @McGrawCenter Fellowship via @CUNYJSchool: bit.ly/McGrawFellows

Write a radio play, win money! BBC Radio playwriting competition, deadline Jan 31

Great creative and win cash and a trip to London! Deadline Jan 31. -Mia

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BBC International Radio Play Writing Competition 

(The competition is open from 1 October 2015 to 31 January 2016.)

"£2200 sterling will be given for the overall winning playwright of the best play written with English as a first language and a trip to London to see the play being recorded for broadcast on the BBC World Service and to attend a prize-giving evening."


Media and Journalism Fellowships, Oct. 14 Edition, from @MediaShiftOrg

Another catch-all list of journo fellowships – this one geared more mid-career. Enjoy!
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Media and Journalism Fellowships: Oct. 14 Edition
http://mediashift.org/2015/10/media-and-journalism-fellowships-oct-14-edition/

Here’s a list of current media and journalism fellowship programs, including the deadlines for applying. If we’re missing any major programs, or you would like your program to be in the featured fellowship slot, please contact Mark Glaser at mark [at] mediashift [dot] org to let us know, and we’ll add them to the list. All featured fellowships are paid promotional slots.

FEATURED FELLOWSHIP

John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford
Stanford, CA
The Knight Journalism Fellowship is a 10-month-long residency at Stanford University aimed at implementing and improving on innovative ideas in collaboration with a group of journalists from around the world.
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2015
Apply now!

OCTOBER 2015 DEADLINES

Editorial Position With GroundTruth’s Climate Change Fellowship
GroundTruth is also seeking experienced editors to lead the project. Editors must have at least three years experience reporting and editing, preferably with a focus on the environment.To apply as an editor, please send an updated resume and cover letter to info@thegroundtruthproject.org with the subject line “Climate Fellowship Editor Application.”
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2015

Five-Day Hostile Environment Training for Freelance Journalists
Thomson Reuters will cover the costs of up to fourteen freelance journalists attending a five-day Hostile Environment Training course run by Hawthorne Proactive from Nov. 22-27, 2015, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Hawthorne Proactive is a Northern Ireland-based security firm that runs courses for journalists operating in difficult areas of the world. Hawthorne’s instructors have extensive operational experience in places like Colombia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Syria. Thomson Reuters will cover costs of training, course materials, accommodations, food and non-alcoholic beverages for the duration of the course for the selected applicants. Applicants are responsible for their own travel to and from Belfast. The Pulitzer Center has agreed to cover the cost of transport for a limited number of applicants who can demonstrate a clear financial need.
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2015

Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellowship
Join the Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and spend Spring 2016 launching a journalism startup and studying new business models for journalism. During their semester, fellows have conversations with media leaders and entrepreneurs in guest lectures, workshops and product sprints. Weekly startup visits have included Twitter, Facebook, Google, Kickstarter, BuzzFeed, IDEO, NYTimes, among others organizations in New York’s rich and diverse publishing and tech community.
Deadline: Oct. 23, 2015 (deadline extended!)

Reynolds Business Journalism Week
Twenty-four participants will be competitively selected for four days of training on where to find economic angles in stories, how to cover money on any beat and the nuances of covering business and finance. This year’s conference will include sessions on incorporating economic and census data into stories, building business investigations and covering business in your community. Special topics are tentatively slated to include campaign finance, the money in sports, the economics of immigration and the business of marijuana.
Deadline: Oct. 18, 2015

HIV Prevention Reporting Fellowship
This opportunity is sponsored by ICFJ and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is aimed at better equipping journalists with the knowledge and skills to report on Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), and its implementation as an HIV prevention method. Journalists from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are encouraged to apply for this fellowship. Applicants are asked to submit proposed story ideas/reporting projects related to VMMC, with the understanding that the fellowship will help prepare selected applicants for reporting on the topic.
Deadline: Oct. 19, 2015

Soros Justice Fellowship
The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations’ Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice. Fellows receive funding ($58,700–$110,250) through the following two categories: Advocacy Fellowships or Media Fellowships.
Deadline: Oct. 21, 2015

Google Digital News Fellowship
The Reuters Institute is seeking applications for a Google Digital News Journalist Fellowship as part of its world renowned Journalist Fellowship Programme based at the Reuters Institute in Oxford. This fellowship is for two terms (6 months) starting in January 2016 and is aimed at a mid-career journalist resident in one of the continental European countries which will be covered in the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, namely; Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark,  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The fellowship will appeal to a journalist who is excited by the opportunity of producing a research paper based on some aspect of either the survey data or digital journalism more generally with a direct focus on the professional and industry implications based on their own experience.
Deadline: Oct. 21, 2015

Atlantic Media Editorial Fellowship
Washington, D.C.
The year-long Atlantic Media fellowships are for recent college graduates who want to work in a digital-first newsroom. The editorial fellowship will begin in January 2016 and run through December 2016. Editorial Fellowship responsibilities may include the following, blogging, copy editing, fact checking, manuscript review, multimedia editing, photo research, reporting, social media, video, writing.
Deadline: Oct. 23, 2015

Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship
Cambridge
The Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships at Harvard offer short-term research opportunities to individuals interested in working on special projects designed to advance journalism in some new way. In addition to working journalists, those who should consider applying include publishers, programmers, designers, media analysts, academics and others interested in enhancing quality, building new business models or designing programs to improve journalism. Project proposals may be completed during the time spent at Harvard or be part of a larger undertaking. All visiting fellows are expected to be in residence in Cambridge during their study and present their findings to the Nieman community at the end of their research period. There are no academic prerequisites, and a college degree is not required.
Deadline: Oct. 23, 2015

NOVEMBER 2015 DEADLINES

AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Healthcare Performance
This fellowship sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists  is a yearlong program allowing journalists to pursue a significant reporting project related to the U.S. health care system. It can be local or national in scope, or a little of both. Fellows pursue the projects with the support of their newsrooms or freelance outlets, which commit to publish or air the work.
Fall Deadline: Nov. 2, 2015

A Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America
This 18-month, multi-phase program is for 28 Latin American professional fellows from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, and 10 of their U.S. counterparts. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and its selected partner organizations in each country will recruit professional and citizen journalists, media business managers, digital entrepreneurs and technologists to create media business models that harness the power of digital tools to generate sustainable new revenue. Applicants must be fluent in English.
Fall Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015

Fund For Environmental Journalism
The Society of Environmental Journalist’s Fund for Environmental Journalism welcomes applications for grants of up to $5,000 to underwrite story projects. In 2015 grant cycles, funding is available for story projects in three categories: 1) open topic, including international; 2) coverage of land-use issues of North America; and 3) coverage of  biodiversity conservation and climate-change impacts in North America. For the first time, applicants may also include a stipend in the proposed budget.
Fall Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015

The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism 
This non-residency fellowship provides experienced journalists with grants of up to $15,000 to produce deeply reported investigative or enterprise stories on critical topics related to U.S. business and the economy.
Fall Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015

IN PROGRESS OR FUTURE FELLOWSHIPS

Alexia Foundation Grant Program
Various locations
The Alexia Foundation provides grants of $25,000 to students, professionals and women for a serious documentary photographic projects. Deadlines for this year are closed.

Associated Press Global News Internship Program
Various locations
This paid internship program is for students who are aspiring cross-format journalists and will contribute to AP’s text, video, photo and interactive reporting. The application period for the 2015 internship is closed. Questions may be emailed to internship@ap.org.

Bay Area Video Coalition Mediamaker Fellowship
San Francisco, CA
The fellowship selects fellows for a 10-month program that supports project development with professional mentorship in multiplatform and transmedia storytelling through emerging technologies and strategic marketing.

Data & Society Fellow
New York City
The fellowship brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists and public intellectuals who are interested in engaging one another on the key issues introduced by the increasing availability of data in society.

Donald W. Reynolds Fellowships
Columbia, MO or remote
The fellowship offers an annual program for individuals to develop innovative ideas within journalism and to help build the public’s knowledge in these areas.

Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship
New York City
The fellowship offers one fellow a nine-month period of writing, reporting and providing analysis on newsworthy international events at the Council on Foreign Relations headquarters. Interested candidates who meet the program’s eligibility requirements can apply online between January 1 and March 1 on an annual basis.

FASPE Summer Ethics Fellowship in Journalism
Europe
FASPE Journalism uses the conduct of reporters and other media professionals during the Holocaust and in Nazi Germany as a launching point for an intensive course of study on contemporary journalism ethics. FASPE is predicated upon the power of place. Fellows visit Auschwitz and other sites in Germany and Poland where they consider how to apply the lessons of history to the ethical challenges of their profession today.
Deadline: Jan. 5, 2016

Fellowship in Professional Journalism for Morning News Journalists
Dallas, TX
The fellow will contribute to the student-generated news website at the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication as well as teach a course in her own expertise.

Google Journalism Fellowships
Various locations
The fellowship is for undergraduate, graduate and journalism students interested in using technology to tell stories in new and dynamic ways at various organizations.

Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme (IDR)
The Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme (IDR) is a media-funding project operated by the European Journalism Centre (EJC). The grant programme aims to advance creative reporting approaches, thus enabling a better coverage of international development issues. The grant intends to raise awareness about these issues by enabling the production of stories that have a strong impact on media audiences in the following nine European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Deadline: Mar. 2, 2016

International Reporting Fellowship for Minority Journalists
Various locations
This short-term program allows journalists of color the chance to travel overseas to report on and publish stories about underreported issues of interest to their communities.

Joan Shorenstein Fellowship
Cambridge, MA
The fellowship brings journalists, policymakers and scholars together to the Harvard Kennedy School to advance research in media, politics and public policy.
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016

Knight-Mozilla Fellowship
Various locations
Fellows spend 10 months embedded with partner newsrooms, such as the New York Times and ProPublica. Fellows are developers, technologists, civic hackers and data crunchers who work with the community inside and outside of their newsroom to develop open-source projects.

Knight Science Journalism Fellowship
Cambridge, MA
The nine-month Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT aims to increase mid-career journalists’ understanding of science, technology, medicine and environment by working with scientists and policy makers.

Knight-Wallace Fellowship
Ann Arbor, MI
The Knight-Wallace Fellowship brings journalists to the University of Michigan to bridge academia together with journalism.

Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship
San Diego, CA
The Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship at Point Loma Nazarene University is an initiative to develop modern education in the sciences, philosophy, society and the arts.

Meredith-Cronkite Fellowship
Phoenix, AZ
The week-long multimedia fellowship program sponsored by the Meredith Corporation and its Phoenix television station, KPHO CBS 5, offers  broadcast journalism students from underrepresented groups a week of hands-on experience.

Metpro Tribune
Los Angeles or Chicago
Metpro helps beginning journalists launch careers and boost diversity in Tribune newsrooms.

MJ Bear Fellowship
Through the Online News Association, the MJ Bear Fellowships identify and celebrate early-career digital journalists who have demonstrated that they deserve support for their efforts.

Munk School of Global Affairs Global Journalism Fellowship
Toronto, Canada
This fellowship awards 20 fellows the chance to work at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs for media around the world in various platforms from broadcast to online.

National Geographic Photography Fellowship
Various locations
The two-year fellowship allows photographers to share their visual expertise with diverse areas of the National Geographic Society and with the public, producing stories, sharing their storytelling knowledge with other explorers, and bringing the Society’s mission to illuminate, teach, and inspire the world at large.

Nieman Fellowships
Cambridge, MA
Nieman Fellowships are for experienced print, broadcast and online journalists to advance ideas that innovate in journalism.
Deadline: Jan. 2016

Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation
Cambridge, MA
The fellowship brings at least one individual to Harvard University for an academic year to work on a specific project relating to journalism innovation.

Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme
Oxford, UK
This fellowship allows 25 mid-career journalists from around the world to conduct academic research in Oxford for various months in the academic year.

RJI Fellowships
Missouri School of Journalism and Elsewhere
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute invites proposals from people and institutions to collaborate with RJI on innovative ideas and projects to improve the practice or understanding of journalism. The fellows program gives people and institutions the time and space to create, test and measure strategies, products and services that will strengthen journalism in the 21st Century. There are three types of RJI fellowships: residential, non-residential and institutional.

Santa Fe Institute’s Journalism Fellowship In Complex Systems
Santa Fe, NM
The fellowship is for veteran journalists interested in exploring complex systems science more deeply and understanding the issues underlying current scientific debates in many scientific fields. The 2015 application period for this fellowship is postponed.

Scripps Howard Foundation Multimedia Fellowship
Washington DC
This year-long fellowship allows post-graduates to create multimedia projects for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire’s website as well as mentor undergraduate students. Next year’s application deadline is in April.

The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
Atlanta, GA
The one-year fellowship is offered to six journalists and is designed to enhance public understanding of mental health issues and combat stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness.
Deadline: Apr. 13, 2016

World Press Institute Fellowship
Various locations
The fellowship is offered to 10 journalists from around the world and provides immersion into governance, politics, business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the United States.

Sonia Paul is a freelance journalist based in India, and is the editorial assistant at MediaShift. Her work has appeared in a broad range of media, including the Al Jazeera Media Network, Caravan, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Mashable, New York Times, PRI’s The World, Roads & Kingdoms and VICE News. She previously produced the grant-funded podcast series Shizuoka Speaks, based in Japan. She is on Twitter @sonipaul (and Instagram, too).

UPDATE: This post has been updated with the new deadline for the Tow-Knight fellowship.

Latino USA seeks technology pitches, deadline Oct 30

Pitch to Latino USA!
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Latino USA is looking for story ideas for an upcoming episode on technology, slated to air on December 11.

We’re looking for unexpected, fresh ideas about Latinos and technology, including but not limited to tech entrepreneurship and access to technology. We’re especially interested in stories that are not simply “feel good” profiles, but highlight truly interesting characters and/or progressive change on the tech scene, and undercut the stereotypes about sexism and white dominance in the tech world. We are interested in both Latinos in technology, and how Latinos interact with technology.

Latino USA pays $125 per broadcast minute, plus $25 for a photo.
Please send your pitches to www.latinousa.org/submit before October 30.

Thanks,
Leda

Leda Hartman
Editor, NPR's Latino USA
@ledahartman
ledahart@mindspring.com
919-542-0008

3 days left for Very, Very Short Short Stories Contest

Get it while you still can!! -Mia
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Hey Talented Folks 

Just a note that the Very, Very, Short, Short Stories Contest deadline is 3 days away. 
It's the same day that Pope Gregory the XIII implements the Gregorian calendar and Marie-Antoinette is tried and convicted at the Palaise de Justice. She's condemned to death THE NEXT DAY. 
Email me at annheppermann@gmail.com if you have questions. 
Cheers,
Ann

Get a Scholarship to Make Radio!

I think I passed this along once before but it's worth re-sending – scholarships are now available to learn how to make radio at Transom. Go For IT! -Mia

Get a Scholarship to Make Radio! (via This American Life OCT 6, 2015)

Ira Glass writes:

Hi everyone! I’m proud to announce that we’re working with Transom.org to expand the scholarship program for their Story Workshop. The Story Workshop is an eight-week live-there-and-do-nothing-but-learn course that teaches radio skills to people who aren’t in radio at all. They do it twice a year in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It’s designed for people who want to change their lives and come make radio stories.

The next workshop runs from April 3 till May 26, 2016. I’ll be one of the guest teachers.

Our hope is that these scholarships will eliminate financial barriers for people who want to learn radio. We’re encouraging people of color to apply, along with anyone from any segment of the population that’s underrepresented in the public media workforce.

We’re glad to be partnering with Transom on these scholarships. Their news release about it is here.

One last thing to mention: individuals can also contribute to Transom’s scholarship fund. If you care about making public media more diverse, I hope you consider donating.

Apply for the Scholarship HERE

Donate to the Scholarship fund HERE

KALW’s Public Radio Party, Sat. Oct 10, 2-8pm, SF

For you Bay Area folks – go see some fabulous speakers at this KALW celebration – sounds like a great time!
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KALW is throwing our second annual Public Radio Party this Saturday, October 10th in San Francisco.

We'll have speakers (NPR's Laura Sydell, 99% Invisible's Katie Mingle, Your Call's Rose Aguilar, and Le Show's Harry Shearer), live music, light refreshments, and some amazing cake. Plus, it's a great time to meet radio and audio production folks from around the Bay Area, and connect with public radio fans who'd love to know more about what you're working on.

It's all going down from 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the CCSF Mission Campus (on 22nd Street at Valencia) in San Francisco. All we ask is that you RSVP by following this link

Feel free to share that link with other radio-making pals in the Bay Area too. Also, you're welcome to bring flyers/swag for your own podcasts and/or radio projects to share.

Thanks!

Warm thoughts & hot tape,
Ashleyanne Krigbaum
ashleyanne@kalw.org