This week’s class was inspired by NPR reporter Mandalit del Barco’s Sound Salon session, which she routinely runs at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference.
Think mini film festival, but with audio stories. I didn’t get to play them all, but here is the playlist I created:
WKSU: The Songs of Insects // 4:21
http://www.wksu.org/news/story/22340
KUOW: Bill The Beer Man // 3:51
http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=10171
This American Life: Rest Stop // Played intro
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/388/rest-stop
WNYC Radio Rookies: Growing Up in the System // 11:38
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/496-growing-up-in-the-system
Radio Lab: A Lucky Wind // Played first portion
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/745-a-lucky-wind
Here are other pieces that I didn’t get to play:
On the Media: Pulling Back the Curtain
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/05/25/06
This American Life: Kid Logic
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/188/kid-logic
This American Life: Classifieds
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/223/classifieds
Radio Lab: Falling
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/sep/20/
Making of Radio Lab
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2007/nov/09/making-radio-lab/
IF, Australia, 2002
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/546-if
The Dead Can’t Do You Nothin’
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/511-the-dead-can-t-do-you-nothin
Don’t Hang Up 2: Nightlines
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/504-don-t-hang-up-2-nightlines
Small Paper Uses Profits to Train New Reporters
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5373738