Story Workshop Fall 2013

Beginning Radio: Applications open Special Guests will include: Ira Glass and Andrea Seabrook
 
Story Workshop Spring 2013: Listening Event

Story Workshop Spring 2013: Listening Event

Join us for a public listening event on Thursday, May 23rd at 7:00 at Redfield Hall in Woods Hole to celebrate the accomplishments of the students from the Spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop. For those of you who can't make it to the event, we'll create a Transom feature soon.

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Story Workshop Spring 2013: Insights

Story Workshop Spring 2013: Insights

Students in the Spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop share the most important things they've learned so far.

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Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man

Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man

At age 23, Andrew Forsthoefel, set out to walk across America, 4000 miles, with a sign on him that said, "Walking to Listen." It's an epic journey, a coming of age story, and a portrait of this country. Co-produced with Jay Allison.

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Story-Making Machines: Meograph

Story-Making Machines: Meograph

We are launching a series of conversations with people who make Story-Making Machines for the web. Up first is Misha Leybovich, CEO of Meograph, a tool for "four-dimensional storytelling."

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A Piece of Collective Memory

A Piece of Collective Memory

RIPR's News Director Catherine Welch on the process of using collective memories to create non-narrated pieces about place.

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A Piece of Collective Memory

RIPR’s News Director Catherine Welch on the process of using collective memories to create non-narrated pieces about place.

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Women Hosted Podcasts

In her Sidebar Julie Shapiro, artistic director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival, questions the lack of female hosts in the ever-widening world of podcasts.

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How Radio Producers Can Make the Most of Social Media

Radio producer and social media wrangler, Will Coley provides 10 simple tips for how radio producers can ride today’s social media wave to extend the reach of their stories AND find even more work.

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Story Workshop Spring 2013: Listening Event

Join us for a public listening event on Thursday, May 23rd at 7:00 at Redfield Hall in Woods Hole to celebrate the accomplishments of the students from the Spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop. For those of you who can’t make it to the event, we’ll create a Transom feature soon.

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Story Workshop Spring 2013: Insights

Students in the Spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop share the most important things they’ve learned so far.

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Story Workshop Spring 2013: In Session

The spring 2013 Transom Story Workshop is underway. Check here for all sorts of news and updates including Twitter and Flickr feeds.

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Story-Making Machines: Meograph

We are launching a series of conversations with people who make Story-Making Machines for the web. Up first is Misha Leybovich, CEO of Meograph, a tool for “four-dimensional storytelling.”

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Safe and Secure

Running a website is an inherently insecure operation. The good news is, you can radically reduce your risks by taking your web security responsibilities seriously, and by following some simple guidelines. Transom’s Barrett Golding tells you everything you need to know.

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On Booms

Everything you’d want to know about booms – from what to consider when buying one to how to hold them – from radio producer, Shea Shackelford.

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Andrea Seabrook

Andrea Seabrook’s podcast Decode DC approaches political reporting from a fresh angle and we like the way it sounds. She quit a pretty good job in order to do this. In her Transom Manifesto, she tells us how and why she got to this point. She lays out her principles and measures her work against them.

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Jonathan Groubert

Jonathan Groubert’s incredibly instructive Transom Manifesto takes you through the life cycle–from birth to death–of “The State We’re In,” an hour-long radio show that achieved the rare feat of success not only in Europe where it was produced but here in the U.S. as well.

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Brian Storm

In his Transom Manifesto, Brian Storm compares three versions of the same story about a New York City Seltzer Man–one for radio, one for TV, and one by MediaStorm. This is a great multimedia storytelling exercise, highly recommended.

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Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man

At age 23, Andrew Forsthoefel, set out to walk across America, 4000 miles, with a sign on him that said, “Walking to Listen.” It’s an epic journey, a coming of age story, and a portrait of this country. Co-produced with Jay Allison.

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Sonic IDs

Recently, we assigned Sonic IDs – 30 and 60 second mini-documentaries – to the participants in a Transom Story Workshop. They aced them. So we decided to feature them here, along with tips from the students about their collection and production process.

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A Code To Live By In Appalachia

There may come a day when races are so blended as to be irrelevant, but not yet. For our first 2012 Transom Donor Fund piece, producer Mary Helen Miller explores the racial identity of Melungeons in Appalachia.