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Sound School Podcast

The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.

Episodes

Total: 359

Show, Don't Tell

2020/12/8

It's always good to be reminded of the best writing practices. That's why we dusted off this old epi

Nancy Was Here

2020/11/24

Raise a mic in the air with Rob in honor of "Nancy," the now-cancelled podcast from WNYC about the L

Things I Like

2020/11/10

Cleaning out the "closet" of audio stories and found a few choice cuts to share from podcasts like R

Portraying Character

2020/10/27

Chana Joffe-Walt is one of my fav writers. She excels at portraying character. Chana and I listen to

If you were producing a podcast on climate change, what tone would you choose to approach the topic?

A Night of Ear Candy

2020/9/29

Step 1: Find a comfortable place to sit. Step 2: Make sure you’re free from interruption. Step 3: Pu

What do you get when you mix folklore, radio journalism, and a pear? An award-winning story from Can

The Squirm Test

2020/9/1

From time to time, you might learn something unfavorable about a character when reporting a story. I

Effective Sound Effects

2020/8/18

History podcasts face a serious problem: sound. So much documentation from the past lacks audio. The

Pandemic Diary

2020/8/4

There needs to be a radio and podcasting merit badge: reporters and producers earn one when they str

Rob's secret hope with every HowSound is that you'll hear creative storytelling and production and t

Emily Green says she "walked in the margins" of journalism ethics to report a story on kidnapping at

Leave In The Question

2020/6/23

This American Life's Sean Cole is the guest on this episode of HowSound. Rob dug this one out of the

A Feast For Your Ears

2020/6/9

This episode is aptly named: “A Feast For Your Ears”. Rob features a handful of ear-catching clips.

You may know Jay Allison for his work on the Moth Radio Hour and in his role as the founder and exec

Selly Thiam says producing an LGBTQ podcast in Kenya is incredibly challenging. There's homophobia,

What Do You Stand For?

2020/4/28

Why do you report a story or produce a podcast and send it out into the world? What gives you purpos

Because of COVID 19, Reporters are scrambling to figure out how to report from home given social dis

Take A Walk With Your Mic

2020/3/31

This historic moment may be a good time to reconnect to the sonic environment. The latest episode of

Poetry As Narration

2020/3/17

Narration in stories is usually just that - narration. Someone in a booth reading or ad-libing a scr