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John Biewen
September 2011What’s your hurry? As part of Transom’s steady call for more “Slow Radio,” we present for your meditative pleasure, John Biewen’s downloadable issue of The Transom Review “In Praise of the Pause.”
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Neenah Ellis
June 2011If you make radio, you'll be interested in Neenah Ellis's transition from national producer to local manager, and if you work at a local station, Neenah's experience at WYSO will be helpful in pondering your identity and usefulness in the Age of the Internet.
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Jon Miller
March 2011Jon Miller of Homelands Productions has been in residence at Transom, giving good advice to those who want to move beyond individual piece work…Have a burning question (or two or three), Recruit your dream team, Find the perfect outlet…Jon even includes a damn budget, along with thoughtful answers to your questions.
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Chana Joffe-Walt
January 2011Next time you have a complicated story to tell—or worse yet, a complicated subject to make a story from—you’re going to want to dig out your PDF file of Chana Joffe-Walt’s Transom Review. Chana gives a few simple tricks for organizing and presenting in her original Manifesto, and amplifies them in the discussion that followed. Very useful stuff, we promise. Come and get it.
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Madhu Acharya
October 2010We have compiled Madhu's Manifesto into our downloadable Transom Review. Here's what Bill Siemering said, "Thank you, Madhu, for this most beautiful story of how you developed local radio in Nepal…This is radio *with* people. There is no better example of public media."
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Jake Warga
July 2010An anyone-can-do-it guide to embedding—ready for download. Jake’s useful advice starts from scratch. You’ll find out everything from where to get the bulletproof vest to where to sell it afterward. And we think you’ll find work he created during his embed in Iraq to be really memorable.
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Gregory Whitehead
June 2009Gregory Whitehead’s Manifesto and the pursuant challenging conversation about the art of radio - followed by a lively discussion. You should read it all, but you might begin at the end with Gregory’s final quote here and then circle back to the beginning.
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Doug Mitchell
April 2009Doug Mitchell affected the careers of many in the public radio vineyards, and they showed up at Transom to testify. Come download the latest Transom Review: Doug's Manifesto and conversation about his experience leading NPR’s Next Generation Radio project: “Finding Them and Keeping Them: The Next Generation of [Public Radio] Talent”
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Sean Cole
February 2009The bouncy, irrepressible radio reporter Sean Cole tells us why he thinks it’s fun to write a Manifesto, and he tells us a story about himself and his friends, and he tells us about funny and interesting things that happened to him… all by way of telling us about telling stories in the first-person.
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Curtis Fox
November 2008Curtis Fox produces podcasts for The New Yorker, The Poetry Foundation, Parents Magazine and others. He got his start in public radio and it still resonates in what he does. In this issue of The Transom Review, Curtis lays out his podcast philosophy, plays samples, and answers all sorts of practical questions too. Come download the PDF of Curtis’s dispatch from this edge of the multi-dimensional new world of audio distribution.
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