Like a lot of people, I struggle with anxiety. Deadlines are particularly stressful, which is crazy because I’m in an industry in which the deadline is sacrosanct. Your editor gives you a deadline and come hell or high water, you better get that story in on time. Fortunately, over the last 10 years, I’ve developed strategies through cognitive…
Creating a Podcast: How to Edit Audio in Audacity
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell explains how to edit and mix down multiple audio tracks to create a finished podcast using the free open-source Audacity program.
I got podcasting on my mind
I’ve been thinking a lot about podcasting lately. Here’s the slideshow presentation I’m giving Friday, Oct. 20, at the Journalism Interactive conference hosted by the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrell College of Journalism. Starting Saturday, Nov. 4, I’ll be teaching my first class as an adjunct professor at American University. I’ll be teaching the COMM-620…
Turn Up the Volume — A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting
If you spend any time reviewing the listings on Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes) or GooglePlay, you’ll quickly discover there are a lot of podcasts out there — thousands of them, in fact — covering a vast variety of subjects. Want to delve into the seamy side of political corruption within an American city? Check out…
Overview: Turn Up the Volume — A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting
Introduction The introduction provides an overview of the current state of podcasting and includes a brief history of the medium. Podcasting can trace its roots back to 1999, when a group of developers at Netscape fleshed out the Real Simple Syndication (RSS) technology. This allowed users to subscribe to an information feed on a website….
Turn Up the Volume: Tenets of Good Podcasting
At some point during the research stage of Turn Up the Volume, I began creating a list of best practices for podcasters, sort of a “10 Commandments” all podcasters should follow if they wanted to succeed. Each new tenet was based on themes that had emerged from my conversations with the 60 or so podcasters…
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