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RadioPodcast 3-day Crash Course in July, NYC

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Wanna learn how to make brilliant audio narratives? A friend/colleague is teaching a 3-day class at NYU this summer. Details below!

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Hi Everyone, 

I'm teaching a three-day class at NYU this summer that will cover audio production, writing, and an overview of the industry. It's good for people who want to try audio either as part of their existing jobs or make a move to do it full time. Please help spread the word to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! 

PODCAST/RADIO REPORTING AND STORYTELLING: A CRASH COURSE IN AUDIO

Do you listen to This American Life, Serial, or StartUp? Do you start your day with Morning Edition? Have you always wanted to try audio storytelling and journalism? In this intensive workshop, learn everything you need to get started, whether your goal is to launch your own podcast or begin a career in radio journalism. Begin with an overview of the rapidly changing audio and podcast landscape. Then, through examples and hands-on training, learn how to write for the ear, use a microphone, record audio in the field, edit audio on your laptop, and craft a compelling short piece. Finish the intensive with the start of your own audio project, either a public radio-style news segment (like All Things Considered), an interview (like Fresh Air or WTF with Marc Maron), or a non-narrated creative piece (like The Kitchen Sisters).

YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH

Technical skills for recording and editing audio
An audio project, whether a radio segment or the beginning of a podcast

IDEAL FOR

Aspiring and practicing journalists who want to learn audio skills
Professionals across all industries interested in storytelling

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Workshops

RadioPodcast 3-day Crash Course in July, NYC

Leave a comment
Wanna learn how to make brilliant audio narratives? A friend/colleague is teaching a 3-day class at NYU this summer. Details below!

-mia
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Hi Everyone, 

I'm teaching a three-day class at NYU this summer that will cover audio production, writing, and an overview of the industry. It's good for people who want to try audio either as part of their existing jobs or make a move to do it full time. Please help spread the word to anyone who may be interested. Thank you! 

PODCAST/RADIO REPORTING AND STORYTELLING: A CRASH COURSE IN AUDIO

Do you listen to This American Life, Serial, or StartUp? Do you start your day with Morning Edition? Have you always wanted to try audio storytelling and journalism? In this intensive workshop, learn everything you need to get started, whether your goal is to launch your own podcast or begin a career in radio journalism. Begin with an overview of the rapidly changing audio and podcast landscape. Then, through examples and hands-on training, learn how to write for the ear, use a microphone, record audio in the field, edit audio on your laptop, and craft a compelling short piece. Finish the intensive with the start of your own audio project, either a public radio-style news segment (like All Things Considered), an interview (like Fresh Air or WTF with Marc Maron), or a non-narrated creative piece (like The Kitchen Sisters).

YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH

Technical skills for recording and editing audio
An audio project, whether a radio segment or the beginning of a podcast

IDEAL FOR

Aspiring and practicing journalists who want to learn audio skills
Professionals across all industries interested in storytelling

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next session of Radio Boot Camp, @UnionDocs, NYC in June

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Sally Herships' and friends' brilliant audio training workshop is coming up in a couple months. Don't miss it! Details below. -Mia

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The next session of Radio Boot Camp at @UnionDocs in Brooklyn is coming up in June! This is a great, getting started, dive-right-on-in class for making radio and podcasts for beginners. Please share and hope to see you in June!

More info here:
http://www.uniondocs.org/2016-06-11-radio-boot-camp/


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Feet in 2 Worlds workshop on climate change and sustainability reporting for immigrant and community journalists

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Two great upcoming events from Feet in 2 Worlds. Details below! Application deadline May 2.
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Feet in 2 Worlds is accepting applications for a workshop to help immigrant and community journalists sharpen their reporting on climate change, sustainability and resilience.  The workshop will be held on Monday, May 23 from 3PM to 8PM at The New School in New York City.
Workshop attendees will also be admitted to an all-day conference exploring new ideas about parks and public spaces on the following day, Tuesday, May 24, also at The New School.
The deadline to apply to the workshop is May 2.
JOHN RUDOLPH
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FEET IN 2 WORLDS
72 FIFTH AVE. 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10011
RUDOLPHJ@newschool.edu
603.498.5480

The New School

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Center For Documentary Studies Summer Audio Courses

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The Center for Documentary Studies offers fantastic audio courses each summer. See below for this year's line up. -Mia

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Spring is here and it’s time for the annual invitation to “summer audio camp for grownups,” our weeklong intensives here in Durham, NC. Since we started these courses more than decade ago, they’ve evolved along with the audio storytelling/podcasting landscape. But what makes them unusual has not changed: You come, you spend just 6-7 days, you learn, AND YOU MAKE. You come away with a produced piece/episode for your portfolio.

Here they are:

Hearing is Believing, July 10-16, for beginners (really: NO experience required) or those relatively new to the craft and wanting a solid grounding in the fundamentals — recording, shaping and scripting, assembling and mixing on Hindenburg. We set up a topic and interview(s) for you, and you make a piece during the week with a partner.

Making It Sing, August 1-6, for producers with experience (a little or a lot) and a challenging project to bring. You bring tape and workshop your piece with lots of individual and small-group attention along with teaching sessions about focus, structure, and being your own editor. 

Between those two on the calendar, our friends at Big Shed are again offering Digging In: An Artist’s Retreat, July 24-29, which brings together documentary makers and storytellers of all stripes (and all mediums) for a productive and rejuvenating week of digging deep and making meaningful progress on individual projects.

The fine producer and editor Shea Shackelford comes to help with Hearing is Believing and Making it Sing, and he and some Big Shed cohorts are your hosts for Digging In. Thrilled about our special guest teacher/presenter for Hearing is Believing: Tina Antolini, host and producer of the excellent podcast, Gravy.

To register or to read more about all these courses, and a few others offered by CDS in video, photo, and writing, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/nly355s

Any questions, write to cdscourses@duke.edu.

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TRANSOM Story Workshop & Scholarship Applications Open, deadline May 27

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The amazing Transom has announced it's next Transom Story Workshop. Application deadline May 27. Scholarships available.

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* NEW TRANSOM STORY WORKSHOP: FALL 2016 Applications and Scholarships Open Now *

Nine Weeks. Full Time Radio Training. Cape Cod.

This will be our tenth Woods Hole Transom Story Workshop, a milestone. We're extending the session by one week (a recommendation from alumni), so the dates are now September 20-November 19th. General applications are now available, along with scholarship applications, at this link:
http://transom.org/2016/story-workshop-fall-2016-apply/

Rob Rosenthal will be the lead teacher for nine beginning producers. The class gets instruction from Transom staff, along with special guests. This Fall, we'll welcome Daniel Alarçon of Radio Ambulante, Nancy Updike of This American Life, and others who drop by. It's a great experience… for all of us. Applications are due by May 27th by midnight EDT. Here's a full FAQ:
http://transom.org/faq/#q11

With major support from This American Life and MailChimp, along with support from alumni, PRX, AIR, and other kind souls, we are able to offer a limited number of full and partial scholarships. Our intent is to make the Workshop a realistic option for people who have been unable to attend due to the cost–with a focus on diverse voices, people of color, and those who have been historically under-represented as makers of public media. Find out more (and donate, if you can!) right here:
http://transom.org/workshops/about/scholarship/

Drop over any time,

Jay Allison
Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
www.transom.org
Twitter: @transom_org
FB: www.facebook.com/transom.org

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Northern Short Course on visual journalism, February 25-27, NJ

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The Northern Short Course is new to me (thanks Will Coley!) but features two workshops with the inimitable Alison McAdam. Definitely worth checking out! (Pay per day or get a discount for all three days.)
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http://www.northernshortcourse.org/

The 35th Annual Northern Short Course (NSC) will be held February
25-27, 2016, at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, NJ.

This three-day event is packed with more than two dozen workshops on a
variety of topics relevant to professionals and students in the field
of visual journalism [and 2 audio sessions, see below].

Learn from and network with industry leaders, as they share their work
and discuss what makes them successful.  Choose from a variety of
workshops and lectures on topics such as business practices,
multimedia, lighting, video storytelling and more.  Sign up for
one-on-one portfolio reviews from top photo editors and photographers.
Meet manufacturers and suppliers of photographic equipment, presenting
the latest technology available.  You won’t find a more diverse
conference – there’s something for everyone!

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AUDIO: SOUND IN STORIES with Alison McAdam
Good video demands good audio. In this session, we’ll listen to a
range of audio and explore – together – how audio storytellers think.
What are the different kinds of sounds you can use in a story? What
are the different ways you can employ narration, interviews, and
natural sound? And ultimately, what kind of sound makes your story
worth listening to (or watching)? Come to this session ready to listen
and talk.

STORY STRUCTURE: WITHOUT A BACKBONE, YOUR STORY IS A JELLYFISH with Alison McAdam
Even when we’re reporting the latest news on NPR, the best audio
stories share qualities of great fiction: There’s suspense, an
unanswered question, or a captivating character. How do you take
information and give it a narrative, using sound? In this session,
we’ll take some raw ideas (hopefully, yours!) and workshop them –
going in search of the possible story structures. You’ll leave this
session with a set of tools to help yourself develop structure in your
own stories.

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Feet in 2 Worlds accepting applications for a food journalism workshop

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Scholarships and travel stipends available for Food in 2 Worlds: A multimedia journalism workshop focused on food stories from immigrant communities. Application deadline Aug 1. Details below!
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Feet in 2 Worlds is accepting applications for a multimedia journalism workshop focused on food stories from immigrant communities.  This intensive workshop (Oct. 16 – 18 at The New School in New York) is designed for journalists, journalism students and culinary professionals who want to tell compelling and insightful food stories from immigrant communities. Participants will learn basic skills in audio recording and production. Writing skills will also be emphasized. Each participant to leave the workshop with at least one fully produced multimedia story for the web and story pitches for future work vetted by a panel of editors and veteran journalists.  Please check out the link and forward it to others who may be interested in applying. 
Thanks,
John
JOHN RUDOLPH
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FEET IN 2 WORLDS
72 FIFTH AVE. 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10011
RUDOLPHJ@newschool.edu
603.498.5480

The New School

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UnionDocs Podcast School in August, early bird registration deadline July 20

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Podcasting crash course from UnionDocs – with some phenomenal instructors!! Details below. Registration deadline July 20. -Mia

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Coming up this summer! Early registration deadline is July 20th.


The Podcast School
From Wednesday August 26th to Sunday August 30th

Over the course of this five-day seminar, the students will learn from a team of seasoned guest speakers, thinkers and practitioners—public radio reporters, storytellers, sound artists, radio auteurs, podcasters, and media entrepreneurs. This intensive will consider a wide range of issues from audio storytelling, podcast production to radio communication, fundraising and advertisement. The seminar will also include one field trip, discussions, conceptual exercises, listening sessions and work-in-progress critiques.

Radio producers and hosts Anna Sale (Death, Sex & Money for WNYC), Al Letson (State of the Re:Union), Sean Cole (This American Life), Jonathan Mitchell (The Truth/Radiotopia), Andrea Silenzi (Slate's The Gist, Why Oh Why), Kaitlin Prest (The Heart/Radiotopia) and media entrepreneur Erik Diehn (Midroll). Tina Antolini (radio producer, host and creator of Gravy, a podcast with the Southern Foodways Alliance) will lead the course.

$750 – Early Bird Registration. Deposit received by July 20th at 5:00 PM.
$850 – Late Registration

To learn more about this workshop and register visit 
http://www.uniondocs.org/podcast-school/

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Late Summer Podcasting Workshop at UnionDocs in NYC

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Learn to podcast from some of the best podcasters out there. At Brooklyn's UnionDocs from 8/26-30. Details below!
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UnionDocs is running a 5-day-long workshop on podcasting at the end of the summer. It'll feature sessions from superstar podcasters/radio producers Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money, Sean Cole from This American Life, Kaitlin Prest of The Heart, Jonathan Mitchell from The Truth, Andrea Silenzi from The Gist and Why Oh Why, Al Letson from Reveal and SOTRU, and Erik Diehn from Midroll… Oh, and me, from Gravy.

The workshop will be held Wednesday, August 26th through Sunday, the 30th at UnionDocs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each day we'll go from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

You can find more info and sign up here: http://www.uniondocs.org/podcast-school/

Best,
Tina

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Tina Antolini
Host and Producer, Gravy
www.southernfoodways.org