Archive
2 Oct

Great guide to audio equipment and software

Transom.org is a website whose stated purpose is to make public radio better. It provides a forum for people to submit audio stories that haven’t found their way onto public radio, […]

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1 Oct

BBC Radio News Style Guide

BBC Radio News has posted a very helpful guide online to writing for radio. It’s concise, clearly written and covers things such as getting the tone of story right and using only spoken […]

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19 Sep

Television reporters need sound, not just pictures

This YouTube video prepared by Mark Popesel, who teaches Television News Writing at the University of Arizona, compares two versions of the same television report – one with natural sound, the […]

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17 Sep

Ethical guidelines for editing audio

When editing interviews….The most important rule – NEVER change the meaning of what the interviewee said. It’s okay, even expected, that you will cut out ums, ers, long pauses, and […]

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12 Sep

Advice from a voice coach for reporters doing audio stories

Radio reporters, even experienced ones, always want to improve their on-air presentation. Now they are joined by print reporters who are increasingly expected to do audio reports for the web. In this Q&A Ann Utterback, […]

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16 Aug

Audio vs. video storytelling

An essay about the differences between audio and video storytelling from a journalist who has done both in Canada and the U.S. the essay includes links to audio and video […]

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16 Aug

Learning to use the audio editing software Adobe Audition

A series of videos designed to teach people how to use one of the most popular audio editing software pacakges. Some of the sections are free online. There’s a charge […]

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16 Aug

Tips for producing radio reports from the BBC

A site designed for high school journalism teachers with lots of great advice about everything from using a microphone and editing software to writing and interviewing for radio. It includes […]

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15 May

Tutorial for audio editing software

This blog posting includes a link to a terrific step-by-step guide to Audacity — a free program that allows people to edit audio files for presentation online or on the […]

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29 Mar

CBC Radio podcasts

This page provides links to the increasing number of podcasts available of CBC Radio’s most popular news and information programs.

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