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Pimp Your Podcast – a panel discussion at CUNY jschool, Monday 10/22, 12:30pm
Hey folks. I'm participating in a panel discussion on Monday 10/22 about the future of podcasting. Planet Money's Adam Davidson will be there, and you'll have a chance to pitch your podcast ideas and get feedback. Details are here: http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/pimp-your-podcast-the-secrets-of-great-audio-projects/. Hope you can make it! -Mia
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With the tremendous success of Freakonomics, WTF with Marc Maron, the Slate Gabfests, and more, podcasting has come into its own in the past five years. But where is it heading? How will fans hear the shows and stories they love in the next decade?
Come join us for a panel on the state of podcasting: We’ll discuss the two-way street between online audio and broadcast radio and how to sell a podcast idea to a funder or news organization. We’ll also take a peek into the crystal ball.
Bring your questions and ideas for great podcasts, and we’ll provide riveting conversation.
Space is limited, so sign up early. Register in advance
Free for CUNY J-School students and alumni. (Check your class or alumni Facebook page for the promotional code you need to register.)
$5 + $1.27 online registration fee for everyone else: Register in advance
Panelists:
Amanda Aronczyk (moderator) has been a public radio reporter and online producer for almost 15 years, working at WNYC’s Radio Lab, APM’s Marketplace, and PRI’s The Next Big Thing. As a freelancer, she has produced podcasts for the The New Yorker and Slate, and produced radio for a variety of programs, including Studio 360, Freakonomics, and Marketplace. She is currently producing a half hour documentary on crime and debt for the BBC.
Jim Colgan plays a senior role on the content team at SoundCloud, where he helps news organizations, producers, and anyone else interested in creating spoken word audio on the social sound platform. Before that, he was head of media at Mobile Commons and for 10 years, he was a producer and digital editor at WNYC Radio in New York.
Adam Davidson is co-founder and co-host of Planet Money, a co-production of NPR and This American Life. He also writes the weekly “It’s the Economy” column for The New York Times Magazine. His work has won several major awards including the Peabody, DuPont-Columbia, and the Polk. His radio documentary on the housing crisis, “The Giant Pool of Money,” which he co-reported and produced with Alex Blumberg, was named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade by the Arthur L. Carter of Journalism Institute at New York University. In two weekly podcasts, a blog, and regular features on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and This American Life, Planet Money helps listeners understand how dramatic economic change is impacting their lives. Planet Money also proves, every day, that substantive, intelligent economic reporting can be funny, engaging, and accessible to the non-expert.
Mia Lobel is the co-founder and senior producer of several podcasts including B-Side Radio and Distillations, an award-winning chemistry podcast for the non-for-profit Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. She has freelanced for media outlets across the country including KQED, The Tavis Smiley Show, Youth Radio, Antenna Audio, and Pulse of the Planet. She’s also the founder of Freelance Café, a support, networking, and resource web site for Bay Area and Hudson Valley independents.
Ashley Milne-Tyte is a New York-based writer and reporter. Ashley produces radio pieces for Marketplace, NPR, and Voice of America, writes for print/online, and teaches radio journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Ashley recently completed a fellowship at the CUNY/Tow Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism where she launched a podcast about women and work, called The Broad Experience.
chief job for Boston area political quarterly
For you Boston area folks – part-time work (with benefits!) to supplement your freelance career. Details below. -Mia
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Editor-in-Chief
Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank in the Boston-area that tracks the U.S. Right, seeks a part-time Editor-in-Chief of our quarterly Public Eye with oversight over our web editor. The editor works closely with our research and communications directors and has a substantial role directing the website’s coverage.
Candidates must have five years of professional work experience, a background in journalism and research interest in the U.S. Right. Sparkling news judgment, strong analytical ability, and ease with scholarship a must. Editor must be able to work out of our Somerville, MA office.
Competitive salary, full health and dental, 401(k), paid vacation. To apply, send a resume and cover letter with story ideas and links to two of your favorite articles by October 31 to n.lewis@publiceye.org.
PRX’s Global Story Project deadline Oct 15, midnight
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We will accept applications:
- to complete original works
- to reversion or update prior works or archival material
- to adapt and complete works based on other media that could work as audio productions.
Head to prx.submittable.com to get all the details and please send any questions to john@prx.org
Good luck!
-Genevieve at PRX
opportunity for teens – Radio Diaries, NPR, and Cowbird team up for new Teenage Diaries series, deadline Nov 1
I wanted to pass along this newsletter from Joe Richmond at Radio Diaries for a couple reasons. First, if you don't already know Joe's work, you should. Second, Radio Diaries is celebrating the 16th birthday of its amazing "Teenage Diaries" series with a storytelling project on Cowbird that will eventually turn into a new Teenage Diaries series in 2013. There's a link to a step-by-step guide for getting involved below. Pass this opportunity on to the young people in your lives. -Mia
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WAMC’s 51% wants your commentaries
You all know that I generally don't post gigs that don't pay, but I've been teaching this semester and so I have a renewed interest in finding opportunities for newbies – talented folks who have the skills and drive to succeed, but who need an audience and some clips to build their confidence to start charging a reasonable fee for their work. And so I offer this: WAMC's 51% (The Women's Perspective) wants your commentaries. Here's a note from the show's producer:
I am ALWAYS looking for good commentaries for 51%. I have zero budget, but sometimes when someone's starting out, the money is less important than the credit. It's no small thing to be on NPR, CBS, Sirius and AFR, and that's what a commentary on 51% gets. Themes – anything. I do not consider it a women's show – I consider it an issues show with women's points of view. You'd be surprised how difficult it can be to find women experts on things. Environment/health/politics/war/peace/community/sustainability/technology/human interest – I'm interested in all of it. So if you know of people who are interested, I am always happy to get queries and scripts.
And here's a blurb from their website:
In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next fifty years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all.
Whether it's the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there's a women's perspective, and 51% is a show dedicated to that viewpoint.
Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional 'women's issues' category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.
Also note that men's voices are welcome – but since it is a women's perspective show, their topic must relate to women. For instance, the show has a regular male contributor who is doing a series on women in history. There are no specific themes – though holidays, seasonal and event-related (election, for instance) are always a safe bet. And note that if a topic is time sensitive, it needs to be submitted at least four weeks in advance as they tape early. Submissions for the show should go to sbarnett@wamc.org. Let Susan know I sent you.
Best,
Mia
CPB Radio Grant Opportunity webinar, Oct 16, 3pm ET
Learn about an upcoming CPB grant in this webinar on Oct 16, 3pm ET. Details below. -Mia
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Do you want to deepen your impact on education reporting for public media? Here’s your chance. CPB has a new grant opportunity for original education reporting at the local and national level. In alignment with the American Graduate initiative (http://www.americangraduate.org/) this grant seeks to fund your reporting into challenges and solutions faced by communities providing education in the 21st century.
Public media has long been a trusted educational resource. We invite radio stations and national producers to continue this important work and raise awareness of issues in education, including the high school dropout crisis.
Want to learn more? Join us on Tuesday, October 16, at 3:00 p.m. ET for an informational webinar about this grant opportunity. Please register in advance:
http://mediaengage.org/webinars/webinar_details.cfm?wbid=164481
The grant deadline is November 12, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. ET. You can see the proposal here:
http://www.cpb.org/grants/405/AG-Radio-RFP.pdf
Best,
Cristina Hanson
Deputy Director
National Center for Media Engagement
Engage Your Community. Share Your Story.
Storytelling Workshops Scheduled in NYC, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco
Not sure about the cost of these workshops, but Tom Jenks has an impressive client list. -mia
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Upcoming events at the UC Berkeley J-School
Some great events for your Bay Area folks. -mia
SCREENING: "Between Two Worlds" a film produced by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow
When: Wednesday, October 10, 7:00 PM
Where: Room 105 North Gate Hall
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is a groundbreaking personal exploration of the community and family divisions that are redefining American Jewish identity and politics. The filmmakers' own families are battlegrounds over loyalty to Israel, interpretations of the Holocaust, intermarriage, and a secret communist past. Filmed in the United States and Israel, it explores the vital question: Who speaks for a divided community at the crossroads?
Q&A with the producers to follow the screening.
Praise for BETWEEN TWO WORLDS:
"The film's graceful, seamless, thoroughly engaging blend of family and communal history is sure to stimulate thousands of provocative conversations about the challenges of Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era."
-Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author & founding Editor, Ms. Magazine
"One of the best films I've ever seen about the contradictions of American Jewish life."
-Peter Beinart, author & journalist
Presented by the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Joint Degree Program in Jewish Studies at GTU and UC Berkeley, the Jewish Studies Program at GTU, J Street U and Berkeley Hillel
Iraq Ten Years Later: Forgotten Past and Brutal Present
When: Friday, October 12, 7:00 PM
Where: Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
An evening with Iraqi Journalist, Haider Hamza, and American journalist and author, David Harris, speaking on Iraq: "Iraq Ten Years Later: Forgotten Past and Brutal Present."
Best known for ShowTime’s This American Life: "Talk to an Iraqi ", Haider Hamza lived with his family near Babylon, south of Baghdad during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. While in Iraq, Haider covered all the major events that took place in Iraq including the trials of Saddam Hussein. Haider will speak about his experience in Iraq and the American public’s response to the war. Haider is both knowledgeable and entertaining. His lecture includes film clips from his road trip in America and a slide show of photos he took of post-war Iraq. He will address the conflicts in Iraq since 2003 and the challenges that emerged after the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011.
American Journalist and author of "THE CRISIS: The President, The Prophet, and the Shah; 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam". David is Vice President of Citizens Reach Out and has been an advocate for anti-militarism since the Vietnam War. David will present the background of the Iraq war and will introduce the work of Citizens Reach Out.
Christopher B. Daly | COVERING AMERICA: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism
When: Wednesday, October 24, 12:00 PM
Where: North Gate Hall Library
Today many believe that American journalism is in crisis, with traditional sources of news under siege from a failing business model, a resurgence of partisanship, and a growing expectation that all information ought to be free. In Covering America, Christopher B. Daly places the current crisis within a much broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade.
Christopher B. Daly is a veteran journalist with experience in wire services, newspapers, magazines, books and online. A Harvard graduate, he spent 10 years at the Associated Press. From 1989 to 1997, he covered New England for the Washington Post.
RSVP REQUIRED
David Barstow | The Story Behind the $100 Million Story
When: Thursday, October 25, 7:00 PM
Where: Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
In April, David Barstow described in The New York Times how Wal-Mart's highest executives covered up evidence of systematic bribery by Wal-Mart de Mexico, it's largest and most important foreign subsidiary. The story triggered investigations by the Justice Department, the SEC and Mexican authorities, along with at least a dozen lawsuits by Wal-Mart shareholders, including several major pension funds. Wal-Mart says it expects to spend at least $100 million this year alone handling the legal fall-out.
David Barstow, a senior writer at The New York Times, is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
In 2009, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for "Message Machine," his series about the Pentagon’s secret campaign to influence coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2004, he and Lowell Bergman were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for articles about employers who committed egregious work place safety violations.
Mr. Barstow joined The Times in 1999 and has been a member of the newsroom’s investigative unit since 2002.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Mr. Barstow worked at The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, where he was a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes. Before that, he worked at the Rochester Times-Union in upstate New York and the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Wisconsin. Mr. Barstow, a graduate of Northwestern University, grew up in Concord, Mass.
RSVP: juliehirano@berkeley.edu
REPORTING FROM ISRAEL: THE US ELECTIONS, THE ARAB SPRING AND JOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief, Haaretz Daily Newspaper
When: Thursday, November 15, 6:00 PM
Where: North Gate Hall Library
Israeli journalist and author Aluf Benn on Israel – U.S. post-election relations, Israeli response to the Arab Spring and how journalism is changing in Israel.
During his 23 years at Haaretz, Aluf Benn covered six Israeli prime ministers from Yitzhak Rabin through Binyamin Netanyahu and reported on Israeli-Arab wars and peace efforts since the Oslo Accords in 1993. In his roles as diplomatic correspondent, chief news editor and opinion editor at the paper he has become an expert on the country’s leadership, foreign policy and national security. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, and The Guardian.
Presented by Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of Israeli Law Ethics and Society at UC Berkeley, the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest
RSVP REQUIRED
2012 Presidential Election Recap
Co-sponsored by the University Library, the Media Studies Group major, the Institute of Governmental Studies and The Berkeley Political Review
When: Friday, November 16, 6:00 PM
Where: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
The panel of experts will look at election results, voting patterns, the influence of money and digital technology, prospects for election reforms and, of course, what happens next.
Ron Elving, MJ '79, Senior Washington Editor, NPR
Michelle Quinn, MJ '92, Silicon Valley-based technology correspondent, Politico
Lisa Garcia-Bedolla, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Graduate School of Education
David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Stanford University
Bruce Cain, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Moderated by Susan Rasky, Senior Lecturer, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
RSVP: juliehirano@berkeley.edu
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele in Conversation
When: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 6 PM
Where: Marines' Memorial Club and Hotel (609 Sutter St. San Francisco)
Please join us for an evening of riveting conversation with Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, one of the most widely acclaimed investigative reporting teams in American journalism, and the only reporting team to have received two Pulitzer Prizes for newspaper reporting and two National Magazine Awards for magazine work.
Donald Barlett and James Steele have worked together for more than four decades, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer (1971-1997), where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national journalism awards, then at Time magazine (1997-2006), where they earned two National Magazine Awards, becoming the first journalists to win both the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper work and its magazine equivalent for magazine reporting. They are now at Vanity Fair as contributing editors. Barlett and Steele also have written eight books. Their new book, "The Betrayal of the American Dream," distills 30 years of their work chronicling the dismantling of the American middle class, told through raw numbers and real American life stories. For more information, please visit http://www.barlettandsteele.com.
Presented by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Commonwealth Club of California
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Journalist mixer Saturday night Oct 13, 6-9pm, SF (FREE)
A bunch of great Bay Area journalistic organizations are getting together to throw a big (FREE) mixer on Oct 13. Details below. – Mia
Third Annual Diversity Mixer
Network, see old friends, make new ones
6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13
San Francisco Marriott Hotel
55 Fourth Street
FREE ADMISSION
Complimentary appetizers
A team effort by The Asian American Journalists Association, Bay Area Black Journalists Association, SPJ, East Bay Press Club, Oakland Local, SF Public Press, Hyphen, PRSA Silicon Valley/San Francisco, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Pacific Media Workers Guild Freelance Unit, San Francisco Bay Area Journalists and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
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