Sound School Podcast

WCAI, the public radio station for Cape Cod, has been told it needs to move -- to leave the home it

The story from Slovenia on this episode of Sound School is hyper-local -- so local, you might not ca

When should a reporter turn around a leave? At what point do should they say "I won't report on thes

Robert Krulwich, formerly of Radiolab, once said "how you write is basically who you are." It's a pr

"To play and to fail and to get to know each other and to celebrate the craft of making audio... Wha

We tell stories in sound for many, many reasons. For our listener's hearts and minds. For community.

Say you're listening to a great narrative podcast. The host has really grabbed your attention and yo

Patient privacy in medical settings is essential. So, how does a reporter convince a facility to let

There are four kinds of luck. Unlucky. No luck. Lucky. And radio luck. On this archive episode of So

David Weinberg pulls off a real radio feat mixing fantasy and reality in his documentary called "Gra

Rob plays "Story DJ" on this episode "spinning" excerpts from several excellent stories you'll defin

Don't leave an interview entirely to chance. Structure it like a good story. On this episode, Rob di

Ira Glass of This American Life is a master audio storyteller. He's equally skillful at laying out t

It's illegal to be queer in Uganda and incredibly unsafe. Queer people risk violence, eviction, hara

There's a moment in this episode when Rob is gasping and holding his hand to his chest. Why was he s

Deadlines, production meetings, staff management, show scheduling... in any given day, there's rarel

Have NPR's news magazines occasionally been sounding more radiophonic lately? Rob thinks so. He's co

"Ums." You're supposed to cut them out, right? But what if the "um" means something? Talia Augustidi

One of the top three questions Rob often hears when he's teaching is, "Should I record in stereo?" R

In the tsunami of serialized documentary making over the last decade, what happened to the short sto