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Jan 25, 2019 at 10:00 am – Jan 27, 2019 at 5:00 pm
The Podcast School
With Chiquita Paschal, Stephanie Foo, Alex Laughlin, Keisha TK Dutes, Emanuele Berry, Mark Bramhill and Cher Vincent.
An exceptional group of professional podcasters, radio writers, producers and entrepreneurs help you develop your audio practice and podcasting vision.
Today, anyone can become a broadcaster, but hosting a successful listener-supported podcast is a professional engagement. A successful podcaster has a great dose of imagination and a strong entrepreneurial initiative along with many technical skills, from audio engineering and radio journalism to sound storytelling and online marketing.
This seminar will offer mid-level to advanced producers tools and skill sets for navigating through the podcasting revolution and finding their own path in this emergent medium.
Over the course of 3 days, 15 participants will learn from a team of seasoned practitioners from the radio and podcast industry— public radio reporters, sound engineers, radio auteurs and editors, successful podcasters and media entrepreneurs. Through guest presentations, listening sessions, discussions, group and individual exercises, case studies and work-in-progress critiques, they will explore the creative and production processes behind podcasting: audio storytelling, interviewing, script writing, editing, voice performance, mixing, sound design to audience engagement, distribution, advertising and more
This workshop is three days; please only enroll if you can commit to the entire schedule. Everyone will be invited to present his/her/their podcast project to lead instructor James T. Green and to the group (during students’ presentations). In preparation of this short presentation, an audio (or written) work sample will be requested prior to the workshop (early January).
This workshop program was first initiated by Mathilde Walker-Billaud in collaboration with Benjamen Walker
Details
We are looking for audio producers and podcasters from all aspects of the media industry and beyond with demonstrable skills in storytelling, sound editing and mixing. Participants are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Give us an idea of who you are and why you are coming. When you register you will be asked for a short statement of interest that should briefly describe your experience in audio production and a podcast idea (It would be great if you have one. If not, you might come up with one during the workshop), plus a bio. There’s a spot for a link to a work sample (and CV, which would also be nice, but is not required).
Please note: Participants *will not* be producing an audio piece during the week. Focus is on discussing and listening. The goal is also to develop your podcast/audio project conceptually.
The fee for the intensive follows the schedule below. A non-refundable deposit of $350 is due upon application to the program. The balance payable two weeks in advance of the intensive
August Session:
$350 – Early Registration. Deposit received by January 11th at 5:00 PM.
$400 – Regular Registration
Participants coming from outside NYC are responsible for their own transportation and room and board during the intensive. UnionDocs can provide assistance in locating housing and guidance for getting around town for those not native to New York.
The deposit is non-refundable. Should you need to cancel, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until January 11th. After January 11th, the fee is non-refundable.
In order to keep costs down, this workshop is a BYOL, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.
Schedule
Friday, January 25 – 10:00a - 5:00p
AM: James T. Green
PM: Chiquita Paschal
Saturday, January 26 – 10:00a - 5:00p
AM: Stephanie Foo
PM: Alex Laughlin and Keisha TK Dutes
Sunday, January 27 – 10:00a - 5:00p
AM: Emanuele Berry
PM: Mark Bramhill and Cher Vincent
Each day follows this general structure, with some minor variations and substitutions:
10:00a
Warm up, review of the previous day, work-in-progress feedback
10:30a
Presentation
11:45a
Discussion
1:00p
Lunch (on your own – lunch will be provided on Friday)
2:00p
Presentation
3:15p
Discussion
4:00p
Workshop Presentations
5:00p
End
Speakers
James T. Green is an experimental artist. He let Gmail autocomplete his bio. His website is more interesting: jamestgreen.com
Emanuele Berry has told tales from the mitten state, wandered around St. Louis with a microphone, and taught English in the Vegas of Asia. She is currently a producer and reporter for the Gimlet Media’s podcast The Nod. Before joining the The Nod, she worked on Gimlet’s Undone and StartUp. In the past, she told stories as a public radio reporter, covering everything from the World Dwarf Games to protest in Ferguson, Mo. Emanuele is a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar. She is also the recipient of a 2015 Fulbright award to Macau, China.
Chiquita Paschal is freelance producer/editor and podcast consultant. Previously she worked on Gimlet Media’s Peabody Award-winning show Uncivil. Before that, she was a member of BuzzFeed’s Pod Squad where she helped produce Another Round. She is currently the editor of Panoply’s Bad With Money with Gaby Dunn, Democracy in Color with Aimee Allison, Essence Magazine’s celebrity pop-culture podcast Yes Girl and Crooked Media’s forthcoming feminist talkshow Hysteria. Before podcasting, Chiquita worked at public radio stations in New Mexico and Boston, as well as NPR, PRX and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Alex Laughlin is an audio producer who likes to make weird things for the Internet. Previously, she was on the BuzzFeed NewsPodSquad and before that, she was a social media editor at The Washington Post, where she also created Other: Mixed Race in America, a narrative podcast about multiracial identity.
She is an adjunct lecturer at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Side projects include Wake Me Up Gently, a mindfulness alarm clock for smart speakers, and Self Evident, an independent narrative podcast in development about the Asian-American experience. She’s a staff producer at Transmitter Media.
Keisha Dutes is a graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College with a degree in TV/Radio. Throughout her college career, she found her niche in college radio stations and began honing her personality as an energetic, opinionated, funny programmer and thorough interviewer.
At Ballibay Camp for the Fine and Performing Arts, Dutes taught a successful 10 week radio program for children 7-16 years old which included producing and broadcasting live radio. After her teaching exper
During her 7 year tenure at WBAI 99.5 FM in New York, Keisha fully embraced the TastyKeish moniker and became a leader within the ever changing group of hosts on Rise Up Radio. Touching on police brutality, race, independent music, and artists from all over the world- Rise Up Radio was the only youth produced program on “free speech radio’s” 50+ year old Pacifica Network station WBAI.
Simultaneously, she served as video correspondent, traveling with Society HAE, a website focused on art, fashion, and culture in the African diaspora.
Upon TastyKeish’s departure from WBAI, she embarked on the next leg of her radio journey. She partnered with producer, Coole High and a group of creatives to start Bondfire Radio, a full service radio station with live programming to combat the zombification of commercial radio, in 2013. TastyKeish is happiest on the air live every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 AM EST on her morning show TK in the AM. Co-hosted and music supervised by long time collaborator Conscious, together they engage listeners live on air via social media and their chatroom. TastyKeish also continues the legacy of teaching by providing mentorship to interns daily.
Among her production duties at Bondfire Radio, TastyKeish is also Program Director. She finds joy in keeping her ears open for potential new programming, working with talent, and scheduling programs and special audio events.
Cher Vincent is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former science teacher turned podcast producer and reporter in Chicago, currently for the nonprofit news outlet One Illinois. She has worked with Gimlet, Spotify, MTV News, and BuzzFeed. She is often told she is “delightful”.
Mark Bramhill is an independent radio producer and creator of the podcast Welcome to Macintosh, a show about Apple, its history, and the community around it. His work has aired on podcasts including 99% Invisible, 20 Thousand Hertz, and UnFictional. He helped create and teach the Intro to Podcasting course for Rice University’s English Department. He’s a former intern of NPR’s Planet Money and an alum of the Transom Story Workshop. He is also the creator of the yoga emoji 🧘🧘♂️
Stephanie Foo is an Emmy-winning radio producer at This American Life. Before that, she helped create Snap Judgment. Her work has been featured in California Sunday Magazine, 99% Invisible and Reply All.
