Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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Since 1973, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has taught students from all over the United States and around the world to become skilled documentarians and storytellers. At the core of Salt is a 24/7 15-week experience. Motivated individuals from all walks of life come to Salt to focus on documentary storytelling, develop new skills, and build expertise. Our faculty members are working documentarians and teaching professionals who help provide a strong foundation for students to make their best work. 

Series

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59 Pieces

The SaltCast was a bi-weekly podcast produced from 2008-2010, aimed at pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, Saltcast explored the ins-and-outs of radio production. If you want to hear more Salt radio work, including that produced by more recent students, check out http://www.prx.org/group_accounts/1185-salt !


Pieces

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Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
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In a war you have your typical players. They're the soldiers, the medics. Politicians and journalists. The translators and engineers too. And then ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
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A new outlook for Cystic Fibrosis

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Hamilton wanted to be known as the world's greatest unknown painter. When he died in 2004, he left behind 600 paintings. Now it is up to his...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
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At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
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The city of Portland, Maine currently doesn't allow food trucks. But as the food truck trend has swept the country, some devoted foodies are looki...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Residents describe Rory Holland as charming and fiercely intelligent, but there was something about him that made people wary.

Bought by PRX Remix and The Story


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 16:47
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 5