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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Twelve years ago, tragedy struck the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.

Bought by KUOW, Interfaith Voices, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 3
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Entering her 19th year as a truck driver, Debbie Seelow is no burly man, but rather a self-described "grandma who loves to knit and crochet".

Bought by WABE, KZYX, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 7
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Cathy Pike is a wrestler on an independent circuit.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Olin Smith and Andy Davis make horror movies in Maine.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
Caption: Toure Weaver, Credit: Kelly Creedon courtesy of the Salt archive
A profile of a young man trying to find his purpose.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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A profile of a musician trying to balance her life.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:05
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After getting a degree in sociology, Mark Gatti built a hot dog stand.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Sally Rollins lives with almost fifty animals in her childhood home.

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Laura Fuller is a glass artist in Portland, Maine.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:26
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For 42 years, one family called a small cottage in the Camp Ellis area of Saco, Maine their "haven away from home".

  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:47