Take Nick Michael’s 2.5-hr crash course in video podcasting, where you’ll learn the building blocks for a professional approach. October 2, 1-3:30pm EST. Sign up here: https://radiobootcamp.org/classes/video-podcasting-5/

In “How to be a good podcast guest,” @sherships.bsky.social  will teach you how to be the best guest you can be, what to do when you don’t know the answers, and how to handle challenging interviews. August 4, from 12-1:30 pm ET!

How to be a good podcast guest - Radio Boot Camp

A reporter has scheduled you for an interview. Maybe you’re thrilled, but also terrified! Or maybe you’re just unsure. How are you supposed to sound,

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In the class "How to bring history to life," award-winning producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social (Slate's "Slow Burn," Prologue Projects) will teach you how to  turn back time as an audio storyteller. July 20, 6-9 pm ET, online:

How to bring history to life - Radio Boot Camp

Novelist L. P. Hartley once wrote that the past is a foreign country, “they do things differently there.” At their best, history podcasts welcome you into

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Tuesday!

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These days, it seems like everyone wants to make an interview (or chat) show. In this two-part workshop, John Asante will teach you how to produce a show that will keep your listeners coming back. June 23&30: https://radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-to-make-the-best-interview-show-ever-8/

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.

Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used by federal immigration agents, a move that will expand the scope of ICE surveillance.

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On Sunday, Karen Duffin (This American Life, Planet Money) will talk through practical skills for narrative interviewing, from figuring out what questions to ask, to asking questions in a way that prompts story and emotion. 12-2 pm EST. Sign up here: radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...

How to interview for narrative storytelling - Radio Boot Camp

It takes a different set of interview skills to get people to share not just the facts of their situation, but also an actual narrative. In this online

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I'll be chatting with musical mixing star David Herman of Good Studio this weekend. Online, hope you can make it!

Radio Boot Camp@radiobootcamp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happening tomorrow: Listening to good sound design can feel as baffling as it can feel compelling. Join sound designer David Herman as he discusses his work on Slate's "When We All Get to Heaven" and "Holy Week," from The Atlantic. Only $7! Last chance to sign up: radiobootcamp.org/classes/howd...

In “How to use music in podcasts,” award-winning producer Benjamin Frisch (co-creator of Slate’s Decoder Ring) walks you through the basics of the craft, art, and philosophy of scoring. Class is this Friday, June 5th – sign up here! radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

What are you doing September 27th? Well, I'm doing another @radiobootcamp.bsky.social session about making audio documentaries! Book your spot today, these fill up quickly. radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...

How to make an audio doc from soup to nuts - Radio Boot Camp

Congratulations! Your pitch was greenlit by your favorite show! Your dream of making a longform narrative podcast or radio documentary is about to come

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Getting to help produce this episode with @sherships.bsky.social was such a cool experience. Listen for more about the booming American industry that helps the superrich hide their money and avoid paying taxes.

Reveal@revealnews.org · 4mo ago

Forget Switzerland: The US is now the No. 1 place to hide your money. This week on Reveal, we investigate how some US states are locked in a race to become the world’s biggest tax haven.

🎧 What audio story can you create in 56 hours? Columbia Journalism School’s Radio Race 2026, led by Sally Herships, Director of the Audio Program at CJS, challenges producers around the world to craft a 2-minute audio story between March 27 and April 5.

Can creatives have agency amid all the AI chaos? Yup! Early adopter signup: sfai.agency After my @jskstanford.bsky.social fellowship at Stanford I'm now working with @sherships.bsky.social & other brilliant people. (Big thanks to @rob-rogers.bsky.social!) As a human, I'm happy to share more info.

Just sitting in bed in Brooklyn, reading, heard yelling

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Top stories in the U.S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, music, arts and culture. Nonprofit journalism with a mission. This is NPR.

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In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

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Park Slope gives Mandami an enthusiastic reception

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Mamdani speaking in Brooklyn

Breaking: A CDC advisory panel filled with RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine skeptics just unanimously recommended limiting the COVID shot to people 65 and older or those with underlying health conditions, based on a decision individually or with their doctor.

When President Trump returned to the Oval Office, he promised that he would protect free speech. But after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, those pledges have given way to threats against critics. Here are how the views of Trump and top officials have changed. nyti.ms/46siz7o

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

If you've been waiting and wanting to learn to mix - today's your day! radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...

How to mix - for producers - Radio Boot Camp

Mixing audio stories — creating balance and clarity with all of the audio elements in a story — is an essential part of the production process. It’s the

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Working on a new project and need some feedback! What do you think? 🤔 forms.gle/MTkC45XrxP9p...

Help us name our new tool!

We’re considering one of the following for a name and we'd love your feedback! What do you think of each of the options below?

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📣Today at 12pm ET, online! Why most of the time, you really do want to go through an agent or manager, and how to find them; How to write an enticing cover letter—one that will get past their people & more! radiobootcamp.org/classes/so-y...

So you want to book a celebrity - Radio Boot Camp

Whether you're booking for an interview, or casting a documentary or an audio fiction series, celebrities add luster, and draw attention. They are

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A quiet street in a small town in the southwest corner of Utah is now near the epicenter of the world’s attention on Charlie Kirk.

Washington County is shocked the Charlie Kirk suspect is one of their own

“This is everywhere. Every community, every town, every state,” one of the suspect’s neighbors said. “It's going to be everybody's neighbor, everybody's classmate. It's not at all unusual anymore.”

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In a broken system, New Yorkers with wrongful convictions have limited options for getting their cases reviewed. For many, the attorney general’s conviction review bureau is the only option. But deference to prosecutors can get in the way. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @nysfocus.bsky.social

New York's AG Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Politics Got in the…

The attorney general's conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it's received since 2012.

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Hi New York! Someone please solve this riddle: this is purportedly the F express schedule: www.mta.info/schedules/su... 14th street in Manhattan (Brooklyn-bound) is not even listed. And yet... twice now the express has stopped there. Where and when does the train stop? Signed, confused commuter.

NEW: The House Oversight Committee just received files from the Epstein estate. The estate was expected to include Epstein's now-infamous birthday book in the materials it handed over. @MSNBC

It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · last yr.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...