Neil Verma discusses how Serial host Sarah Koenig's obsession was the real protagonist of the podcast's first season, and how the new second season differs narratively and tonally because she tells the story without becoming a character in it.
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Tags: Bowe Bergdahl, Mark Boal, podcast, podcasting, radio, Sarah Koenig, Serial, Taliban, This American Life
Posted in Columns, The Podcast Review | 13 Comments »
Neil Verma explores the different uses of collective listening in public events and in the classroom, reflecting on a recent experience teaching podcast studies to undergraduates.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Cast Party, collective listening, Kate Lacey, Love + Radio, media studies, Michel Chion, Nancy Updike, pedagogy, podagogy, podcasting, podcasts, radio ballads, Radio Love Fest, radio studies, Radiolab, Serial, The Ballad of John Axon, The Truth, Third Coast International Audio Festival, This American Life
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 1 Comment »
This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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Tags: crime procedural, journalism, Serial, seriality, The Wire, This American Life
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As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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Tags: American Public Media, Audioposition, Jonathan Mitchell, Media Convergence, Mercury Theater on the Air, musique concrete, Orson Welles, podcasting, Radio Drama, Radio Plays, soundscape, Studio 360, The Magnet Theater, The Truth, This American Life
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Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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Tags: Alex Blumberg, Apple, celebrity, Ira Glass, journalism, Mike Daisey, NPR, radio, This American Life, This American Life LIVE!, WBEZ
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On Radio is a new Antenna column dedicated to contemporary radio programming and other issues surrounding the medium in all its forms. Here, in the series' first entry, Andrew Bottomley offers a critical appreciation of the radio feature Radiolab.
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Tags: All Things Considered, documentary, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, John Biewen, journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NPR, Public Radio Exchange, radio, Radiolab, Robert Krulwich, This American Life, WNYC
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