Intro from Jay Allison: This past year, we at Transom have been fortunate to work with the new investigative podcast, The Frontline Dispatch (PBS and WGBH). The final episodes of the first season are a collaboration between Frontline and Transom, building on our previous story, “A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother.” …
Read MoreIntro from Jay Allison: Andy Mills has shared his work on Transom before, but that was when he had more time. Recently he transformed from a producer with weeks or months to produce a story–to a producer with a DAILY deadline, i.e. “The Daily” from the New York Times. Andy breaks…
Read Morehttp://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Reporting-on-Whiteness.mp3DownloadListen to “Reporting On Whiteness” John Biewen says it point blank: “Like wow! White folks are a story!” And, it’s not a story that’s reported very much in public radio. NPR’s Code Switch is an exception. The Code Switch team makes a point of reporting on the white race and whiteness. But, generally speaking, white…
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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Rethinking-a-Podcast-Top-to-Bottom.mp3DownloadListen to “Rethinking A Podcast Top To Bottom” Let me start by saying this: I have great admiration for Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick. They decided to put their podcast under a microscope. Why? To re-think the show top to bottom. That’s risky. It’s no easy thing to let someone pick your work apart in…
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Allston, Massachusetts: August 7 – August 13, 2017 The PRX Podcast Garage is hosting a week-long Transom Traveling Workshop in audio storytelling. Ten beginning-level students will get seven days of intensive training. Apply Class and Cost The fee for the week is $1,806 and includes: Training by Rob Rosenthal, lead instructor for the Transom Story Workshop,…
Read MoreIntro from Jay Allison: Producers Leila Day and Hana Baba had what they thought was a simple idea for a podcast: An African American (Leila) and an African (Hana) would compare their experiences living in the U.S. But after launching the pilot for “The Stoop,” they found themselves dealing with questions about whether their podcast…
Read MoreKeeping The Magic Alive “Translation is a kind of transubstantiation” writes Anne Michaels in her novel Fugitive Pieces, “the poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life [both] try to identify the invisible, what’s between the lines, the mysterious implications. . .” Translation can knock the life out of a…
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Intro from Jay Allison: Transom is happy to feature another video from our friend and former student, the tall Canadian Andrew Norton. This one is about The Creative Mysteries. It’s full of voices—including some radio storytellers, along with David Lynch, Chuck Close, Susan Orlean, my 7-year-old son, and others. The video poses the question of…
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Intro from Jay Allison: Nine more new radio producers have flown from the radio nest in Woods Hole. We’re proud to share some of their work with you—stories on everything from a Santa Convention, to burials at sea, to a town questioning its character, and more. This was our 12th Transom Story Workshop class, and…
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