All Pieces for Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

 
#53 - Left For Dead
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: The Guerette family of Pittston, Maine two years after attackers broke into their home with machetes. , Credit: Sarah Craig
"Left for Dead" is probably the most gruesome story reported by a Salt student. It's not for the faint of heart.

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 17:50
  • Purchases: 3
#54 - No Brother of Mine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Diane Richard and her husband Todd Melby sure know how to pick a project with a long uphill road to the finish line. On this Saltcast, we talk with...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
#52 - Just Another Fish Story
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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You didn’t hear this from me, but sometimes the best approach to working on a story is to not have much of a plan.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 14:03
  • Purchases: 5
#51 - Portrait of a Psychic as a Young Man
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Nathan Dyer focuses hard — really hard — on the chandelier., Credit: Morrigan McCarthy
Ninety-nine percent of the time, using the pronoun “I” in a story is a journalistic no-no. But sometimes, it's a useful storytelling tool.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 11:47
  • Purchases: 4
#50 - Ghetto Life 101
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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“Ghetto Life 101" is a high-water mark for radio documentary and the story featured on this edition of the Saltcast — our fiftieth!!

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 38:07
  • Purchases: 6
#49 - The Junk King
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Jerry Blackburn, “The Junk King” of the Downeast region of Maine. , Credit: Alexandra Marvar, courtesy of the Salt archive
On this edition of the Saltcast, I chat with Salt alum Josh Gleason about framing a story and listen to his feature "The Junk King."

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 15:04
  • Purchases: 2
#48 - Roadway Renaissance Man
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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There are lots of different ways to start a story. Maybe the most common is what I call “Here’s-how-things-are (or were)-here’s-how-they're-differe...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 2
#47 - Wicked Maine Limericks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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Thought the limerick was a dead artform? A remnant of “ye olde days” that little kids still find humorous? Think again. Molly Haley brings us the ...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
#46 - Nothing Predictable
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Icebergs ho! The bow of my kayak near Hay Cove, far northern Newfoundland.
The focus of this Saltcast is tension and narrative arc. I dissect an audio postcard of my own, called “Nothing Predictable,” and describe the arc ...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 3
#45 - Hot Lunch!
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Meatball sub, anyone?, Credit: Catherine Lovell courtesy of the Salt archive
No matter which way producer Audrey Dilling turned in the cafeteria kitchen at Biddeford High School, she was awash in sound, sound, and more sound...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 4
#44 - Racial Cleansing in America
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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On this Saltcast we feature John’s story “Racial Cleansing In America.” It’s about the expulsion of blacks from Corbin, Kentucky by the town’s whit...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 17:18
  • Purchases: 2
#43 - Brainhilda and I
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
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After sustaining a brain injury in a car accident, Carole Starr was diagnosed with hyperacusis, a severe sensitivity to sound. This would be trauma...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
#42 - Saltcast Parody (Graduation Fall 2009)
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Rob holds his head in his hands, tears from laughing so hard. , Credit: Adriana Teresa
This fall, the radio students produced a parody of the Saltcast. It’s a riot. And, it’s today’s feature. I admit, it’s a bit of an insider piece bu...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 1
#41 - Pizza Time!
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Make way for Tom Witkowski, the dean of delivery at Pizza Time, Portland, Maine. , Credit: Rebeca Beeman
Mark Kramer, founder of the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, says if a story doesn't have an obvious narrative hook, it needs a strong ch...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 2
#40 - Flatline Days
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Hillary Hebert takes a break after talking about motherhood and bi-polar disorder. , Credit: Keith Lane
We don’t teach “sound art” at Salt, but we do wonder from time-to-time how a feature might benefit from using sound art to tell a story. In particu...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 2
#38 - Josh: Growing Up With Tourrette's
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Have tape deck, will diary. Josh Cutler, the subject of Joe Richman’s “Josh: Growing Up With Tourrette’s.”
Joe Richman has made some of the best documentaries on public radio. His work is stellar — sound rich, dramatic, personal. On this Saltcast, Joe jo...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 36:00
  • Purchases: 3
#39 - Mind on the Brain
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Watch a video tape as a prompt during an interview.
Get people moving and using senses other than their ears during an interview.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 2
#37 - Sound Healer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Sound healer Sandra Chausse., Credit: Rebecca Beeman courtesy of the Salt archive
In the radio track at Salt, we use Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Franklin’s definition of story: a sequence of events where a sympathetic chara...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 12:40
  • Purchases: 2
#36 - Survivors: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent twenty-nine years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
When is the sound of a slamming door not a slamming door? When it’s designed. On this Saltcast, we feature Claire Schoen’s story "Survivors: Soli...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 39:23
  • Purchases: 2
#35 - A Jew Grows in Rockland
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Series: SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling
Caption: Rabbi Amita Jarmon lights a menorah., Credit: Hannah Fox courtesy of the Salt archive
Humor ain’t easy. And, on the radio, I think it’s particularly difficult. You have only your voice to make the point. And, on top of that, the audi...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
  • Length: 14:14
  • Purchases: 2

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