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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Teamwork is important to hiking. Randy and Autumn know this better than anyone because Randy is a totally blind hiker and Autumn is his guide-dog.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1
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20 years ago the working class town of Lubec, ME buried a giant whale. The town is working together once more–this time to dig it up

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:57
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At age 99, Frank Glazer shares his story on how to mature from being a mere piano player to an artist.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Keene New Hampshire is the Pumpkin capital of the world. For 24 years the community comes together and carves pumpkins to break a Guinness Book of...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:42
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Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
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Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
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Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Anthony Mattia came home from Iraq as a highly decorated soldier, but the trauma he experienced in combat is putting his own freedom in jeopardy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
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It's easy to play when you're a kid, but most of us forget by the time we grow up. But not one Portland couple.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
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The recycling economy of southern Maine

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07