The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
While there were many great podcasts released in 2023, no one will remember the year as a good one f
Rob takes himself to task on this episode. He felt the beginning of the last episode of Sound School
Theo Greenly reports for a public radio station in the far-flung Aleutian Islands in Alaska. When he
Fiction should stay in its corner, non-fiction in its corner. Or so Rob thought until he heard produ
Catherine Carr has turned vox into artful conversation with a deceptively simple question: Where are
Studs Terkel is considered by many to be a patron saint of documentary radio journalism. It's been 1
Rob acts as a story DJ on this episode, featuring excerpts from stories he’s recently found pleasing
What do radio producers Phoebe Judge (Criminal), Zoe Chase (This American Life), Greg Warner (Rough
This year's Third Coast Festival winners and finalists produced incredible work. It got us thinking
It's unusual for a producer to share a work in progress. It's rarer still to do it twice. Nina Porzu
Rebecca Hersher, a climate science reporter at NPR, offers excellent tips on reporting on climate ch
Summer means cicadas. Those crackly, buzzy bugs that drone and drone in the heat like a live electri
Get your headphones on for this episode! Rob dives into three remarkable examples of scoring. He fea
Rob's a fan of the "radio art" style of audio storytelling from Europe but often, after listening, h
No matter how good you are recording in the field, you're going to encounter challenges. Rob Byers d
Pushkin Industries released a "Best Of Audio Storytelling: 2022" but instead of putting it out as a
The Sound School Podcast launched 15 years ago this month. But it was called Saltcast back then. And
Antonia Cereijido has her ear to the ground. It's her job as Executive Producer at LAist to listen t
A light went out recently. The bright light of Chris Brookes — a sorcerer of audio documentary and s
What's the value of a non-narrated story for the listener? "It's direct," says NPR's Quil Lawrence.
