mad in pursuit: radio production

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Radio Production & Presentation Venues

Hearing Voices. A showcase of print, visual, radio. Really cool.

MediaRites Productions is a non-profit producing organization that promotes acceptance among diverse communities through the arts, education and media projects. Since 1984, MediaRites has produced award-winning national radio documentaries, theatre and community projects.

National Public Radio (NPR). Submission guidelines.

ADVICE: On Transom.Org, Alex Blumberg gives some advice on radio stories. "You can tell a lot about whether something’s a story entirely from the first question that occurs to you... Literally, what’s the question that I want to answer, or the story I want to hear? If the questions seem obvious, chances are it’s a story... ...don’t choose a story just because it sounds like a story you’ve heard before. In fact, just the opposite. Choose a story because it’s surprising. I’ve developed a mathematical test to tell whether you’re on the right track. It’s called the “and what’s interesting” test. You simply tell someone about the story you’re doing, adhering to a very strict formula: “I’m doing a story about X. And what’s interesting about it is Y.”

PRX Album at iTunesPublic Radio Exchange. PRX is an online service for peer-review and digital distribution of public radio programming, creating a new web-based bridge between producers and stations. It is a decentralized partnership that will provide good homes to good works, more broadcast opportunities for the people who create them, and new sparks of freedom, imagination, initiative, and creative vision for a mature public radio field.

Sound Portraits. Established as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation in 1994 by MacArthur Fellow David Isay, Sound Portraits Productions is an independent production company dedicated to telling stories that bring neglected American voices to a national audience. Whether on the radio, in print, or on the Web, Sound Portraits is committed to producing innovative works of lasting educational, cultural, and artistic value.

Stories 1st. Sound, words, vision.

StoryCorps. "Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on our Listen page and on public radio."

This American Life. Follow the trail at Submission Guidelines and learn a ton.

Transom. Showcase and workshop for new public radio. Good forums, lots of advice.

:Vocalo. Listener-generated content, broadcasting out of Northwest Indiana and Chicago.

Organizations

Association of Independents in Radio. A diverse membership alliance of independent producers, programmers, marketers, stations, networks, media arts centers, attorneys, teachers... in short, anyone committed to creativity and vision in public radio.

Current. The scoop on the public broadcasting biz.

Audio Festivals

Third Coast International Audio Festival, Annual conference and competition.

Sound Art

See the Sound Art Resource Page for lots of links.

Reading & Learning

This American Life. Follow the trail at Submission Guidelines and learn a ton.

Royalty-Free Sound (& More)

Free Music Archive

Internet Archive.  a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Video as well as audio.

SoundCloud. Search for Creative Commons and "pod-safe" groups.

Sound Design Craft

FilmSound.org. Learning space dedication to the art and analysis of film sound design.

 

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