From the good people at Pop Up Archive.

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Pitch to Pulse!

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Pulse of the Planet, one of radio's longest running short format science/environmental programs, is looking for stories. If you're not familiar with the series, please visit pulseplanet.com, click on Daily Programs and have a listen to the kind of stories we carry. Ideally, they have a sound component and are often seasonal in nature. We're looking for raw sound and interviews, not produced features. We've covered a lot of ground over the 25 year run of the program, so it's probably a good idea to check the search engine on our site to see if we've already done the story you're pitching. However we often revisit topics if you've got a new slant. If we haven't worked with you before, please send a link so that we can hear a sample of your work. We pay $250 for an interview with sound. Typical interviews run from 45 minutes to an hour. Email me <pulse@igc.org> for our producer guidelines. Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards;
Jim Metzner

Dream job?

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The Stanford Storytelling Project, an arts program at Stanford University, is launching a search for a new, full-time Lecturer who would teach undergraduate courses, workshops, and help produce our radio show, State of the Human. Details about the position are below, but the basics are: an advanced academic degree, college-level teaching experience, and significant audio documentary production experience are required; start date is August 1, 2015; salary will be competitive.

If you're interested, please read the ad carefully and visit the link to the application page. More information about the Storytelling Project is at our website: storytelling.stanford.edu.

Thanks all,
Jonah Willihnganz, MFA, PhD
Director, The Stanford Storytelling Project
Stanford University
jonahw@stanford.edu

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JOB OPENING
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

LECTURER, STANFORD STORYTELLING PROJECT
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE)

Stanford University is seeking a full-time Lecturer for the Stanford Storytelling Project, an arts program within the Oral Communication Program in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The initial appointment will be August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016, with the possibility of re-appointment.

The Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP) provides students opportunities to develop skills in the narrative arts through a range of courses and projects. SSP sponsors courses, grants, events, a weekly workshop, and an award-winning radio program featuring stories produced by students. SSP explores in particular the power of performed stories, live or recorded, from myth and memoir to research-based narratives. More information is at storytelling.stanford.edu.

The SSP Lecturer will offer instruction in oral, audio, and multimedia storytelling craft in a variety of settings across the university and will support the activities and initiatives of SSP. Major duties include developing and teaching courses, designing and delivering workshops, training SSP student staff, mentoring students, and collaborating with faculty to design storytelling course components.

Requirements include:

Advanced degree (PhD preferred) in a field focused on narrative craft such as English, Creative Writing, or Documentary Studies. 3-5 years of experience teaching college-level courses in narrative craft, plus 2-3 years of experience mentoring others in creating stories for radio, podcast, or the web, and audio production. Qualified applicants must also have demonstrated knowledge of oral and audio storytelling forms, trends, and programs, understanding of up-to-date pedagogy in teaching narrative craft, and the organizational and leadership skills to help manage the production of the project’s radio show, State of the Human.

About Stanford University

Stanford University, located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, is one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities. Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has been dedicated to finding solutions to big challenges and to preparing students for leadership in a complex world.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. For a more comprehensive job description and to apply, please visit: http://apply.interfolio.com/27992.

BackStory is now accepting pitches for the following shows (air dates in parentheses):

Advertising (1/30) — The episode will focus on how things and ideas get sold to the American public, and how that’s changed over time. We’re looking for stories about: ads in the colonial period, how the U.S. sold itself to immigrants (and internal migrants), ads geared toward women, and the social psychology of commercial advertising, to name a few.

Women in the Workplace (2/6) — This one will look at the history of American women and their relationships with work. We’re looking for stories about: women’s labor movements, how reproductive rights have affected women in their work, women’s efforts to shape and change the workplace, wage equality, and the cultural debates over what counts as “work.” Though it’s tempting, we’ll probably avoid stories about awesome ladies who are awesome just for the sake of awesomeness. BackStory is keen to have great stories with a “Big Think” component.

Middle Class (2/27) — For this show, we’ll investigate how that elusive, powerful (and uniquely American?) group, the middle class, has operated in different centuries in American history. What has it meant to be middle class? Has the term always been positive? Why do so many politicians claim to champion it? How has mass media perpetuated myths about the middle class?

Historical Fiction (TBD) — For this show, we’d be looking for stories about children’s literature, historical re-enactments, movies, TV shows, musicals, graphic novels, the importance (or unimportance) of historical accuracy in fiction, historical fictions with big impacts (Gone With the Wind?), alternative histories, and big ideas like: what are the contours of historical fiction? When is it appropriate and when has it been more than a little dangerous? And what’s the point, anyway?

Here’s a link to the pitch page of our web site, for info about what makes a good BackStory pitch: http://backstoryradio.org/producers/

BackStory is especially interested in stories that get out of the studio — that is, site-specific and sound-rich stories from around the country. Include what, if any, sources you would use in your story and how you would produce them. Give us an idea about what you imagine your piece would sound like (field tape, scoring, effects, readings, etc.). We’re open to non-narrated features, written essays, and reported pieces. Three to 10 minutes in length is ideal.

Email Associate Producer Kelly Jones at <khjones at virginia dot edu>, with “PITCH:” in your subject line. We’ll do our best to be in touch with you within a week of receiving your pitch.