Transom Guests – Archive (60)

Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass

Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass

November 8 2011

We've compiled Ira's revealing analysis of Radiolab along with the following discussion into our current issue of The Transom Review. As ever, there's a downloadable PDF for your offline pleasure.

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Invitation: PRPD Benediction by Jay Allison

Invitation: PRPD Benediction by Jay Allison

October 2011

Jay Allison's "benediction" from this year's Public Radio Program Directors Conference, with both a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF of the speech.

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John Biewen

John Biewen

September 2011

What’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

Neenah Ellis

June 2011

If 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

Jon Miller

March 2011

Jon 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

Chana Joffe-Walt

January 2011

Next 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

Madhu Acharya

October 2010

We 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

Jake Warga

July 2010

An 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

Gregory Whitehead

June 2009

Gregory 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

Doug Mitchell

April 2009

Doug 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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