Maker Sessions
Dive into scores of talks, workshops, and audio manifestos offering wisdom on everything from production skills to journalistic ethics from the best audio producers and makers on the planet.
The Future of Radio Is Now
Teenagers are making some of the most engaging radio out there! Their refreshing perspectives and creative techniques are lighting up the radio and signaling good things for the future sound of the airwaves.
- 2005
- 01:12:50
Finding the People - and Sounds! - Behind the Numbers
Reveal producers Ike Sriskandarajah and Laura Starecheski will show you how they create gripping radio out of stacks of documents and endless columns of numbers.
- 2016
- 01:09:00
Featuring . . . the Feature
The radio "feature" is a long-standing tradition of European broadcasting, a format with a style all its own. Kaye Mortley, an independent producer based in France, describes the feature this way: "These pieces are mind movies -- road movies sculpted out of reality.
- 2002
- 01:26:59
First Off... This is in Really Good Shape
In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better.
- 2016
- 01:28:46
The Fact-checker
There’s an old journalism adage that says “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This American Life’s Christopher Swetala is the fact-checker who calls her to ask, and then let’s you know if it’s true… or not.
- 2017
- 01:36:40
Finding Your Visual Voice
How do you take your storytelling instincts and translate them into the land of photography?
- 2014
- 01:31:43
Found in Translation
Someday they'll figure out how to make radio with subtitles.
- 2010
- 01:16:54