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New Special Features Blog:
This is what Third Coast does. I just got off the phone a little while ago with Amy O'Leary, self-described junior producer at This American Life. If you haven't met her yet, she's lovely. Very friendly and generous with her time. (She's also the one who lives in the crazy castle-like penthouse appartment near the MCA.) I was on the phone with Amy because I was pitching her some story ideas. Or rather, I was talking through some ideas that I thought would make good stories for the show, but wasn't quite ready to pitch formall... | |
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5 Years Old. Time for a Facelife?
So I mentioned earlier that one of the things I wanted to do on this blog was propose a face lift for the Festival. A way to rethink what it means to have us all gather year after year, to talk about what we do and why, and why we love it, and how we... |
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Center of Gravity
I was saying to Julie and Johanna that the center of gravity at Third Coast has shifted, i.e. the torch has been passed to a new generation of public radio geeks. |
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Dr. Glass will see you now
Emily Sapienza, SALT alumni just sent me this account of her audio doctor session with Ira Glass: Sitting there listening to my piece with Ira listening made me realize how bad it is. I mean, not that it's total crap or anything, but I could really... |
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Anne Hull's handout
Anne Hull just emailed me the handout from her session. It's a great little tutorial in field reporting. For print or radio journalists. "Explore sense of place. What was here before? How has the land changed? How was commerce changed? How has the... |
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Close Listening: An Email from David Schulman
David Schulman, he of the Third Coast Award-winning Musicians in Their Own Words just wrote an email, asking if could add to the blog. The answer to him, as it is to everyone, is YES. From David: One of the real gifts of this year's festival wer... |
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Pictures
Note the sliver of poster in front of Roman Mars' nose. Robin Amer in front of him, Sue Mell behind. A couple of us have been using Flickr to share Third Coast pictures. Here are mine, Jonathan Menjivar's and a bunch from PRX, mostly by Jared Bene... |
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The Art of the Pitch
This was actually a panel I suggested to Third Coast in the feedback I sent them from last year, although it sounded like I wasn't the only one who requested it. I'll say again what I said to Julie & Johanna: pitching makes or breaks an independent p... |
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More Soon
So, sadly, I'm back in Boston. Well, it's not sad except for the fact that I'm no longer in Chicago at Third Coast. I will relive the magic tho, cause I still have about 3 or 4 entries I was working on during the conference to put up on the blog. So ... |
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Jared Benedict's Third Coast Photos
If the pictures on the blog are blurry and poorly framed, I took them. If they actually show elements of purposeful composition and competence with light metering, they were taken by Jared Benedict at PRX. Jared's been at every session taking gorge... |
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