Best Third Coast International Audio Festival Podcasts (2024)

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Letters to a Young Poet 56:14

3+ y ago56:14

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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves. "Letters to a Young Poet" is one of four episodes of Best of the Best (2020), a nationally broadcast radio special produced each year by Third Coast. Each of episode of the series features winning stories from the 20th…

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The Great Indoors 56:29

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Three stories from 2020 that each paint a unique portrait of survival and hope in the time of coronavirus. This episode was first published in November, 2020. For the most recent recommendations and information about COVID-19, please visit your local public health website. "The Great Indoors" is one of four episodes of Best of the Best (2020), a na…

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Towards a Better World 56:50

3+ y ago56:50

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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for themselves and for others. "Towards a Better World" is one of four episodes of Best of the Best (2020), a nationally broadcast radio special produced each year by Third Coast. Each of episode of the series…

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Of Bodies and Minds 1:08:58

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Three stories grappling with the messiness of the mind, the body, and being a person. This episode is best listened to with headphones and/or in a quiet place! "Of Bodies and Minds" is one of four episodes of Best of the Best (2020), a nationally broadcast radio special produced each year by Third Coast. Each of episode of the series features winni…

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Update from Third Coast 3:35

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The entire 2020 Best of the Best series will drop on the Re:sound feed tomorrow! Gwen Macsai's brand new podcast Rising to the Challenge is available on your podcast app of choice. To keep up with everything going on at Third Coast, sign up for our newsletter. You can also get in touch by emailing production@thirdcoastfestival.org. Hosted on Acast.…

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Start from the Beginning (2019) 1:17:02

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Most people can recount the facts of their situation, but how do you get them to tell you an actual story? Interviewing for narrative calls for a slightly different set of interview muscles – from the kinds of questions you ask, to helping a source tap into details and emotion of moments long past. At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Karen Duffin o…

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Audio To Film, And Back Again (2019) 1:06:51

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Can you make the move from audio to film, without leaving audio behind? At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Jasmin Mara López (Silent Beauty) led a conversation about the journey from experienced audio producer to first-time filmmaker. She laid out the steps she took on this personal and professional journey, from the conceptual stage of a project …

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Dark & Funny, Like Your Life: Sound Design With Feeling (2019) 1:27:56

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You know about reading between the lines, right? Well good sound design can make you dance between the lines. And when you’re talking about big, uncomfortable ideas — sound can be a super powerful tool to have on hand. Suicide often reminds us of those four magic words: "just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple. She’s been th…

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Sex Sells (2019) 1:23:08

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Sex sells, sure, but who gets to cash in on it? How can journalists honestly and accurately cover sex workers without sensationalizing or further stigmatizing their work? And can the answers provide meaningful & challenging insights for audio producers specifically who make stories about communities they are not a part of? At thee 2019 Third Coast …

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Midwifing the Story: The Art of Editing (2019) 1:28:39

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We’ve all heard the old adage: Everyone needs an editor. Whether you’re working in print, film, or narrative audio — you need someone to check for structure, make sure you’re meeting deadlines, and generally help get the story to the finish line. Jen Chien, who works as an editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, compares it to…

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Calling the Shots with Steve and Nishat (2019) 1:45:29

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The audio industry is changing -- and your role as a leader might well be changing with it. Making the transition from reporter to editor, from producer to executive producer, or from player to coach isn’t always easy. In this session from the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Steve Edwards (WBEZ) and Nishat Kurwa (Vox Media) shared their candid thought…

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Hearing Outside The Lines: Documenting Beyond Truth (2019) 1:28:01

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What does truth look like when everything around us seems to hold the strange gasps of fiction? At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, this panel delved into a deep conversation about new methods of intertwining documentary, fiction & story to tell, dare we say it, even truer stories. It was hosted by 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Competition award-winner Nee…

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Gonna Make You Sweat (2019) 1:02:58

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What does it feel like when artists challenge conventional radio and allow their lived experiences to inform their work? In their 2020 Third Coast Conference session, NK, Phoebe, Mara and Ari - the founding members of RADIO (R)EJECTS - employed Sara Ahmed’s term ‘sweaty concepts’ to explore first person narrative stories. Using feminist theory by w…

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Johanna Zorn's Favorite Things (2019) 43:16

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At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Johanna Zorn took the stage to share her experiences and her lifelong love of radio. 20 years ago, Johanna Zorn co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival with Julie Shapiro. Then last year, Johanna announced that she was moving on from Third Coast to new adventures. We invited Johanna to share her F…

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The Right to Bear Data (2019) 1:15:51

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Data has power but also serves power, which means it can be profoundly hard to navigate and understand. At the same time, the difference between a good investigation and an exceptional one is bound up in data. So how can you use data to transform your reporting, deepen your narrative, and offer creative & entirely unexpected ways of storytelling. H…

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Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Part 2 (2019) 1:12:20

4+ y ago1:12:20

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Hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer has to tackle: how to pitch. Hosted by Leila Day (The Stoop, Pineapple Street Media), the second day of the 2019 Bitchin’ Pitchin’ panel featured the following editors: Jen Chien (Reveal), Erika …

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Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Part 1 (2019) 1:21:36

4+ y ago1:21:36

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Hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer has to tackle: how to pitch. Hosted by Leila Day (The Stoop, Pineapple Street Media), the first day of the 2019 Bitchin’ Pitchin’ panel featured the following editors: Catherine Saint Louis (Neon…

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All That Lingers (2019) 1:31:14

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Hurricane Maria. The Pulse Nightclub massacre. Charlottesville. Philando Castile. Uproar over racism at the University of Missouri. Adrián Florido (Code Switch) has spent much of his time at NPR reporting on the aftermath of traumatic events in communities of color. In his 2019 Third Coast Conference session, Adrián spoke about the importance of re…

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Beat Reporter With A Sneaking Suspicion... (2019) 1:33:57

4+ y ago1:33:57

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Some stories start out small, but turn out to be much, much bigger. Have you ever asked the question: “...is my short news spot better suited to become a multi-part podcast series!?” Jason Moon, reporter with New Hampshire Public Radio, discovered the answer was yes with the story that became Bear Brook, a podcast about murder in a small New Hampsh…

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Provocations (2019) 1:16:47

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On the first night of the 2019 Third Coast Conference, all 800+ attendees gathered for a series of short, provocative talks. To view the visuals associated with the following provocations, click here. "Be Trans, Do Radio: A Provocation for the Cis** / **Cis means you're not trans" - Cassius Adair & Molly Woodstock "Just Say It: Your Thing is Bad" -…

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Update from Third Coast 1:29

4+ y ago1:29

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Because of the situation with COVID-19, we are releasing the rest of the 2019 Third Coast Conference sessions here tomorrow. Sign up for our newsletter Producer News for the latest updates from Third Coast. The 2019 Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Third Coast is: Shirley Alfaro, Maya Goldberg-Safir, Isab…

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ALL WORKPLACES ARE WORKPLACES ABOUT POWER (2019) 1:15:52

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Swirling beneath every single one of this year’s breaking stories and major crises is work and labor: not only of the people in the headlines, but of the audio storytellers, ourselves. How does the media fail to cover the working class, work, and labor? Why is working class, in media speak, a synonym for "white men?" And how does this impact our cu…

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Awards Ceremony (2019) 1:26:25

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We're BACK with a new season of the Third Coast Pocket Conference! This season: the 2019 Third Coast Conference. Inspired by the energy of the 2018 Awards Ceremony, we're kicking off this season with the award-winning producers who took the stage in Chicago in 2019. You can listen to all of the winning stories from the 2019 competition at ThirdCoas…

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Best of the Best (Part 4: Serialized Stories) 58:19

4+ y ago58:19

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Best of the Best is Third Coast’s annual ode to audio storytelling, taking listeners on a journey through the full breadth of what’s possible in stories made from sound. This episode showcases three of the winning stories from the 19th annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Host Gwen Macsai introduces the winners of the Be…

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Best of the Best 2019 (Part 3: Investigations) 1:02:58

4+ y ago1:02:58

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Best of the Best is Third Coast’s annual ode to audio storytelling, taking listeners on a journey through the full breadth of what’s possible in stories made from sound. This episode showcases three of the winning stories from the 19th annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. These stories all won different awards (Skylarkin…

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Best of the Best 2019 (Part 2) 55:52

4+ y ago55:52

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Best of the Best is Third Coast’s annual ode to audio storytelling, taking listeners on a journey through the full breadth of what’s possible in stories made from sound. This episode showcases two of the winning stories from the 19th annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition: the Best Documentary Honorable Mention, Bronze & Si…

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Best of the Best 2019 (Part 1) 55:36

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Best of the Best is Third Coast’s annual ode to audio storytelling, taking listeners on a journey through the full breadth of what’s possible in stories made from sound. This hour of the program showcases two of the winning stories from the 19th annual Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Host Gwen Macsai introduces the winners…

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Re:sound #143 The Centenarians Show (rebroadcast) 58:39

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Stories about people who lived to be 100, from the NPR series One Hundred Years of Stories (originally aired in 2000) by producer Neena Ellis. Hen and Bill Boardman At an age when most people are simplifying their lives and settling into old age, Helen Boardman was opening a new chapter - traveling to Europe, writing her memoirs, and falling in lov…

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Re:sound #155 The List Show (rebroadcast) 58:13

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This hour, we're bringing you a favorite from our archive... to-do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts! To find out what these producers have been up to since we first aired the show, visit ThirdCoastFestival.org The List by Sean Cole, Ashley Ahearn and Nick van der Kolk (Love & Radio, 2011) A man sets out …

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Re:sound #130 The Chicago Show (rebroadcast) 58:02

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This hour, we're bringing you a favorite from our archive... Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything in-between. Wild Onion by Gwen Macsai. Chicago, as all Chicagoans know, means wild onion. Wild, as in feral, unpredictable, fierce, blustery, lunatic. Onion, as in layered, spicy, sometimes stinky, sometimes sweet, and…

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Re:sound #68 The Big Show Show (rebroadcast) 57:32

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This hour, we're bringing you a favorite from our archive... the Rockettes, the opera, congress, and other spectacles! To find out what these producers have been up to since we first aired the show, visit ThirdCoastFestival.org Backstage With the Rockettes by Dean Olsher and Emily Botein (The Next Big Thing, 2004) Manhattan has plenty of icons: the…

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Re:sound #273 The Birth of Being 57:22

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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss. The Birth of Solomon by Leila Day for The Stoop. He was the perfect little brown baby. His name was Solomon. Thick curly hair, chubby legs and eyes closed with dark black lashes. Solomon's story is one that affects thousands of Black families whose babies are twice as likely to die before reachin…

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Re:sound #272 Radio Residents 59:27

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This week, three stories by alumni of the Third Coast Radio Residency. The making of a Chinese American beauty queen by Hannah Kingsley-Ma; edited by Jen Chien & mixed by Gabe Grabin for KALW. Every Lunar New Year, Chinese American women from across the country travel to San Francisco to participate in the Miss Chinatown USA pageant — an ethnic bea…

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Re:sound #271 Sister God 55:44

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This week, journeys of discovery, from personal identity to mathematical infinity. Sister, Sister by Simone Polanen for The Nod from Gimlet Media. Simone thought she knew her little sister well, until she discovered a major part of her sister’s identity that she knew nothing about. When she confronts her sister, the conversation gets heated. 10 Thi…

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Re:sound #270 City Intersections 57:41

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This week, two specific points on the map with two very different stories. Six Stories by Jenny Casas, Robin Amer and Wilson Sayre for The City from USA Today. Chicago, 1990. A guy with a loud sweater, manicured nails and connections to some very powerful people idles in a limousine near a vacant lot. A fleet of dump trucks unloads literal tons of …

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Re:sound #269 Lefty Disco 56:11

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This hour, a mob of rock fans and an erratic limb. Disco Demolition Night by Pat Walters, Julia DeWitt and Emanuele Berry for Undone from Gimlet Media. One summer night in 1979, thousands of people gathered at a Chicago baseball stadium to put an end to disco once and for all. Lefty by John Roche for Yarn. John's left leg won't bend to his will. Th…

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Kaitlin Prest's Favorite Things (2018) 49:54

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At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Kaitlin Prest, audio artist, radiophile, creator of The Heart from Radiotopia and The Shadows from the CBC, talked about what has inspired her to push the boundaries of audio making. After ten years creating performances, immersive experiences and an award winning podcast she introduces us into the backbone of he…

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Depth Perception: Techniques for two ears (2018) 1:05:50

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Just as our eyes work together to create a sense of depth perception, so too do our ears... And yet, so few radio and podcast productions take advantage of the full stereo field—how differences between the “left” and “right” sides of a mix work together to create an immersive sense of space. How can we use this space to help us show vs. tell in rad…

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Re:sound #268 Sleep Happy 56:04

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This hour, family dramas can span across generations ...or just across the hallway. That You Should Be Happy by Micaela Blei for Family Ghosts. Decades after surviving the Holocaust and moving to sunny California, a woman lets her family know exactly what she wants from them. But her granddaughter Micaela has a different idea of what her life will …

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I Love Language (2018) 1:33:52

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Behind many audio stories, there’s stacks of paper and documents full of text. Old interview transcripts that predate recording technology. Letters found in a box. Court records. Emails. In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, John Delore discussed ways to bring these materials to life in the sonic realm. He outlined fundamental diffe…

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The Art of Noise (2018) 1:29:45

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What does it mean for a podcast or radio story to be “innovative” or “experimental”? Is it in the writing? The structure? The use of sound? At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Andrew Leland and Michelle Macklem traced the roots of narrative audio from some of the form’s newest producers back through radio history to the medium’s original innovators…

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Let The Work Be What It Wants To Be (2018) 1:01:53

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Using found reels of an old wire recorder from the 1950's, interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi created her performance piece, "Say Something Bunny!" heralded by the New York Times as “forthrightly funny and briefly pornographic, it is also sneakily moving." At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Alison invited the audience to participate i…

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Re:sound #267 Kintsugi Whipped Cream 56:31

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This hour, an unlikely therapeutic duo and a magical journey through the golden age of radio advertising. Kintsugi Dog by Natalie Kestecher for Short Cuts from BBC Radio 4. A bittersweet story about redundancy, an unwanted dog and the Japanese art of repair. A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream by Clive Desmond for The Organist from KCRW and McSwee…

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Writing for the Ear to See (2018) 1:11:05

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We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce... No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? How do we find those ways of describing a scene, an object, a person, in a wa…

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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Day 2 (2018) 1:05:16

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At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of The Stoop podcast. She leads these sessions, as a gu…

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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Day 1 (2018) 1:13:03

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At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of The Stoop podcast. She leads these sessions, as a gu…

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Provocations (2018) 1:06:32

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What are provocations? Imagine that you’re hashing out an issue you care deeply about in audio with a friend - except this time, it's live in front of a room of hundreds of people. Don’t be afraid to get shaken up. The 2018 Third Coast conference opened with provocations from: Stan Alcorn, Stacia Brown, Eula Scott Bynoe & Jeannie Yandel, Alex Laugh…

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Podcasting Without a Net(work) Day 2 (2018) 1:03:42

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Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain, including: how to choose a compelling narrative-based …

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Podcasting Without a Net(work) Day 1 (2018) 1:01:17

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Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain, including: how to choose a compelling narrative-based …

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Re:sound #266 I'm Your Man 58:23

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This hour, what happens when a relationship from your past returns unexpectedly and pulls you back in time? I'm Your Man by April Dembosky for The Leap from KQED. April hasn't seen Steve in 15 years. So when she gets a call from a lawyer asking about him, she's not sure what to think. As memories from long ago crowd her mind, she's also confronted …

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