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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Melanie Maloney suffers from chronic pain, and is now trying marijuana for pain relief.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Janice Sage is hosting an essay contest with her Center Lovell Inn as the award.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
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Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Prisoners aren’t known for being emotional. But a program at a Maine jail has inmates sharing personal poems with each other.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Saying the Pledge of Allegiance is optional in Maine schools, but Lily SanGiovanni says not all of her classmates know that for sure.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community—one poem at a time.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
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Man and wolf have long had a fraught relationship; in medieval Europe the wolf was the defiler, the destroyer, the devil, and that narrative hasn’t...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:11
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It’s not everyday that family pets and enthusiastic retirees get together to find dead bodies—unless you belong to Maine Search and Rescue Dogs.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
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While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:59