HowSound
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- https://transom.org/topics/howsound/
HowSound is a bi-weekly podcast pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio production.
Each episode highlights the work of independent producers such as Dave Isay, Joe Richman, Hillary Frank, and Dmae Roberts.
HowSound is produced by Rob Rosenthal for PRX and Transom.
The podcasts are available as free MP3 streams and downloads on iTunes, other podcast directories, and here at PRX.
Series
Pieces
Despite hours of great material, there are a couple things about Spotify's "Stay Free: The Story of the Clash" that really make Rob cranky.
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 23:23
Who are all those people listed at the end of an episode of Reply All? One of them is Jessica Yung. She's an Associate Producer. On this episode of...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 21:10
When you have guests as famous and interesting at Tan France, Ramy Youseff, Wazina Zondon, Ryan Harris, and Alia Shawkat, why does the host of Tel...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 22:48
NPR reporter Uri Berliner breaks from his usual approach to storytelling and finds interviewing his dad about growing up in Berlin in the 1930s to ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 14:11
Sewage pipes, a radio crime, and sound designing inner thoughts.... Must be another episode of Rob's fav sounds but this time with a twist -- a sou...
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 18:41
Mirrors, reindeers, and grave digging. Must be an episode about Cathy Fitzgerald and her distinctive approach to interviewing.
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 24:35
On this episode, the convention-busting production choices of "10 Things That Scare Me."
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 11:46
Sometimes, there's just too much good work to feature on HowSound. To solve the problem, from time to time I feature a slew of ear-catching clips o...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 17:35
It's ridiculous how hard it is to talk naturally in front of a microphone when tracking a story but Sruthi Pinnamaneni of Reply All makes it sound ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 15:29
Since 2009, Julia Barton's edited a lot of radio and podcasts you probably listen to including Revisionist History. On this HowSound, Julia talks s...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 20:22
People who work with HowSound
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Kerri Hoffman
CEO |
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Rob Rosenthal (Admin)
Owner, Shunpike Media |
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Robert DeBenedictis
Information Technology |
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Genevieve Sponsler
Sr Managing Producer |
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Jennifer Jerrett
Interim Managing Editor, Transom |
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Distro Dovetail Admin
PRX Publish/Metrics admin |
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