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
Transom student, Sally Helm, discovers the value of pushing back and taking charge in an interview.
- Added: Jan 14, 2016
- Length: 17:31
Frank Langfitt's sometimes voices his stories live-to-tape during a two-way in order to sound conversational. What??!
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 3
Here’s the message of this episode of HowSound in a nutshell: Produce follow-up stories.
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 32:08
“Radio is the most visual medium.” That’s what radio producers say to each other with a wink. But, the two stories on this episode of HowSound actu...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 21:51
- Purchases: 1
I’ve been on the hunt for a newspaper-produced podcast that’s good, that’s solid. What I’ve found has been, for the most part, mediocre except one ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 22:30
Want to learn how to write an essay? Study The Memory Palace. Nate DiMeo, the podcast’s host, is a master of the form. Though, he says he’s not an ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 24:41
Writing into tape is a necessity. Narration needs to lead to a quote. But, what about writing out of tape? Mose Buchele of KUT-FM in Austin has an ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 11:54
Al Letson is fully dedicated to the journalistic work he produces at SOTRU and Reveal, but deep down, he's still an artist. That's why he produces ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 19:50
- Purchases: 1
NPR's Deb Amos and Noah Adams give the backstory on the scariest radio story you'll ever hear.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 32:14
- Purchases: 2
Rob digs through an archive of student work and unearths four "buried treasures."
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 30:52
- Purchases: 2
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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