• Setting Up a Small Recording Studio UPDATE

    Setting Up a Small Recording Studio UPDATE

    An update of one of our most popular features ever – Jeff Towne’s primer on setting up a small recording studio. It covers computer and software selection, the requisite hardware, along with equipment recommendations in various price ranges and pretty much everything you need on this topic, all in one place.

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  • The War Will Be Streamed

    The War Will Be Streamed

    NPR foreign correspondent, Kelly McEvers on covering Middle East uprisings in an on-line world.

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  • The D-Word

    The D-Word

    At Transom, we are steady advocates of Slow Radio, un-rushed humanity-filled storytelling. In that spirit we present "The D-Word" by Ed Prosser. Yes, it's about Death. And about people who make their livings from death. The pace is slow. There is plenty of time, after all. When you feel like changing your rhythm, come listen.

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This American Life Tic Tock

January 25th, 2012

Dan Grech with a behind-the-scenes account of a quick turnaround piece he recently produced for This American Life.


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Transom Story Workshop – Class of Fall 2011

December 7th, 2011

For seven weeks this fall, students from all over the US (plus Canada and Australia) came to Woods Hole to immerse themselves in radio. Come read about their experiences and listen to some of their work.


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Setting Up a Small Recording Studio UPDATE

February 21st, 2012

An update of one of our most popular features ever – Jeff Towne’s primer on setting up a small recording studio. It covers computer and software selection, the requisite hardware, along with equipment recommendations in various price ranges and pretty much everything you need on this topic, all in one place.


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Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass

November 8th, 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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Random Tape

January 4th, 2012

Public radio is good at giving us understandable, digestible bits of information and occasionally great stories. But it doesn’t provide many of the elliptical, mysterious, and poetic fragments of life as we actually experience it. Producer David Weinberg is drawn to those uncoded audio moments. He’s drawn to “random tape.”


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