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An archive of audio stories
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If you are looking for some outstanding, award-winning radio documentaries, you might find them at this online archive from Sound Portraits.
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Free money, just apply
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 Of the thousands of broadcast students in Canada, only 44 applied for five RTNDA scholarships, writes George Hoff. Why some broadcast programs pay little or no attention to lucrative scholarships for students.
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My students don’t have TVs
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 CBC News wants to attract younger viewers with its recent relaunch, but as Carleton broadcast journalist instructor Marilyn Mercer found out, many of her students don't have TVs or cable subscriptions.
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A guide to teaching video
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This site is a series of comprehensive, step by step tutorials on the fundamentals of film and video production. It includes video clips, flash animations, and explanations. The site claims it is used by hundreds of schools, but there is a small fee for teachers to use it with their students in classes.
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Reporting with sound
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More and more journalists are working with audio these days and learning from radio reporters. This is a fabulous guide for journalists about using sound and audio clips in their journalism. It's a 21-page PDF with lots of good advice about story development, writing, and gathering sound. The best part of this guide is the extensive advice about interviewing. The guide was prepared by J.Carl Ganter and Eileen E. Ganter for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. They give credit for some of the content to David Candow, a well-known broadcast trainer for CBC.
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Writing broadcast copy
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There are countless guides to writing broadcast copy online. This is one of the better ones. It's a clear list of 10 rules with good examples as illustrations.
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Great guide to audio equipment and software
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Transom.org is a website whose stated purpose is to make public radio better. It provides a forum for people to submit audio stories that haven't found their way onto public radio, which showcase new voices and new ways of storytelling. It also includes a wonderful section on tools with advice about all kinds of audio gear from recording devices and microphones to software. When students have questions about audio gear, this is a great resource for them.
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BBC Radio News Style Guide
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BBC Radio News has posted a very helpful guide online to writing for radio. It's concise, clearly written and covers things such as getting the tone of story right and using only spoken English. The guide also includes a link to a detailed list of alphabetical rules about such things as the overuse of the word "but" and the misuse of the word "ironically." Some of the advice is specific to British journalists, such as the rule forbidding the use of the word soccer for football. But most of the advice would be valuable to Canadian journalists and journalism students.
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Television reporters need sound, not just pictures
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This YouTube video prepared by Mark Popesel, who teaches Television News Writing at the University of Arizona, compares two versions of the same television report - one with natural sound, the other without it. It's a good example for television instructors to use to demonstrate how natural sound makes stories come alive.
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Ethical guidelines for editing audio
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Mary McGuire
Reporters in every media now record audio for use on the web, with audio slideshows, multimedia packages and other forms of online journalism, in addition to those who do it in radio. As they are learning, software makes all kinds of things possible when editing raw audio. So, what's acceptable and what's not when it comes to editing audio for journalistic purposes?
I was asked recently for a set of dos and don'ts. As a former news reporter and producer for CBC Radio News and now a broadcast journalism professor, here are the rules I have learned, developed and pass on to my students.
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Advice from a voice coach for reporters doing audio stories
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Radio reporters, even experienced ones, always want to improve their on-air presentation. Now they are joined by print reporters who are increasingly expected to do audio reports for the web. In this Q&A Ann Utterback, a well known voice coach who works with journalists and the author of one of the best books on the subject, the Broadcast Voice Handbook offers great practical tips.
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Audio vs. video storytelling
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An essay about the differences between audio and video storytelling from a journalist who has done both in Canada and the U.S. the essay includes links to audio and video examples.
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Tips for producing radio reports from the BBC
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A site designed for high school journalism teachers with lots of great advice about everything from using a microphone and editing software to writing and interviewing for radio. It includes audio reports and interactive lessons.
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Tutorial for audio editing software
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This blog posting includes a link to a terrific step-by-step guide to Audacity -- a free program that allows people to edit audio files for presentation online or on the air. The guide is courtesy of Mindy McAdams at the University of Florida.
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