wow - what an incredible opportunity 🗺️📻rgs.org/in-the-field/i…

"I was fully aware that I was asking her to do something that was going to be difficult for her. And I expressed my gratitude for that the entire time." A big thanks to Laura C. Robbins of The Only One In The Room podcast for sharing her pre-interview process theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/its-like-a-d…

Hello audio twitter - I’m doing an In The Dark Radio event + am looking for audio pieces exploring liminality; pieces which live between genre, or maybe explore 2 ideas at once, or capture occupying an ‘in between’ - weirdness, surreality, things u don’t have a 🏠 for. Hmu!

Watch NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pick apart this reporter's question during a joint press conference with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. He asked the pair 'are you two meeting because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?' Read more: trib.al/HSLyzZQ

Audio folk, you only have until Midnight tonight GMT to apply for the 2022 Radio & Audio Funding Award (RAFA)! 🎤🎙️🎧 It's free to apply and you could win up to £5,000 + mentorship to create an original audio documentary. Go, go, go: bit.ly/ApplyRAFA2022

The The Europeans doesn't always follow the rules -- and their listeners are here for it. For this week's #AudioStoryteller I chatted to hosts Katy Lee - @katyinparis on Bluesky and Dominic Kraemer about 'visual podcasts', getting grants and switching formats theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/beyond-borde…

Do people know what they’re signing up for when they agree to be in a documentary? My new feature, Accounts and Accountability— about trust, money, and power dynamics between makers and subjects— airs today on BBC Radio 4 (1/3)

Thank you to clare_wiley for helping me synthesise Social Broadcasting in her brilliant Audio Storyteller newsletter. Voices you won’t hear elsewhere❣️, by clare_wiley open.substack.com/pub/theaudiost…

Things to consider when worrying about the lack of freelance audio jobs at the moment:

Years ago I pitched a piece about how sex workers are the best positioned to do anti-sex trafficking work; it got accepted by Vice (but never ran, we'll get to that in a second). During the course of edits, I got asked to provide a police perspective on the issue. I refused.

Producers + Podcasters, what do y'all have on deck? Let us know by pitching to editors at Apple Podcasts here: podcasters.apple.com/market (scroll all the ways down to "Get featured on Apple Podcasts")

Audio pros -- whether you're breaking into the industry or at a point of transition, my chat with Erin McGregor from AIR is packed full of encouraging advice and tips theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/breaking-int…

It’s often easier to talk about The Hard Parts of parenting - those bursts of frustration, sleeplessness, and struggle, even in their specificity, can feel like a cheat code to relate to other parents but we have to name the joy too. My latest for @thecut thecut.com/2023/02/the-go…

ICYMI: Award-winning producer Jo Erickson shares how she makes compelling, emotion-packed audio diaries for Colorado Public Radio's Systemic, in the latest #AudioStoryteller newsletter theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/audio-diaries

Fab time in Denver Podcast Movement last week, moderating a panel about cultural sensitivity editing with Maya Chupkov and @SParshallJensen. Thanks Maya and Stacey for speaking so insightfully about making more compassionate and curious work in audio 🎤 💛

"I wanted something that could feel like a collage": in the latest #AudioStoryteller newsletter, Mark Pagán 🇵🇷 explains the ingredients that go into making Other Men Need Help theaudiostoryteller.substack.com/p/memoir-meets…

we have a bonus episode of #smoglandradio out today, featuring a beautiful story produced by clare_wiley ✨

Lucy Jones’s process of dismantling, and rebuilding, her conception of motherhood forms the basis of her new book, “Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood”—which is part memoir, part explanation of the science and sociology of motherhood. nyer.cm/TTJ123n