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
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If you have one day to produce a story for KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race, reach for low hanging fruit, right? Not if your Esther Honig. On this episode...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 18:16
- Purchases: 1
Filmmaker Tally Abecassis learned a heckuva lot about audio storytelling when she just jumped in the deep end and started producing her podcast "Fi...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 1
Irish radio producer Ronan Kelly has a great ear for compelling radio. He plays story DJ on this archive episode of HowSound from 2010.
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 53:49
I was so nervous talking to Ashley Ahearn the producer of KUOW's new podcast about the environment "terrestrial." I should have been. I asked her a...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 21:57
Sook-Yin Lee describes the combination of improvisation and structure that informs the production of Sleepover, a hit podcast from the CBC.
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 12:20
- Purchases: 2
Sometimes, pitching a story is the last thing you want to do. Just press record and see what happens. Jay Allison explains why.
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 19:38
- Purchases: 2
"Live like the truth is true and go were love has not yet arrived." Al Letson of Reveal on interviewing a racist.
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
KUOW's podcast "How's Your Day?" is a good podcast. The idea was bad.
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 26:38
- Purchases: 2
Never say this to yourself: "I'll fix it in the mix." Fixing recording mistakes back in the studio can lead to more problems. Instead, prevent issu...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 12:28
Rachel Matlow had a head slappingly simple idea: make a conversation out of the interviews she recorded with her mom after her mom died. But, simpl...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 22:44
- 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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