• This American Life Tic Tock

    This American Life Tic Tock

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

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  • Accidental Podcaster

    Accidental Podcaster

    Producer Hillary Frank didn't plan on becoming a podcaster but she did. She shares her story along with her vision for podcasting's future.

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  • PRX the Lion-Hearted

    PRX the Lion-Hearted

    Transom's Barrett Golding has started creating basic Web Guides, useful to radio producers, journalists, and storytellers: How-To Features on presenting your multimedia work online. Up now, Barrett dissects the just released, lightning-fast PRX Converter for Mac Lion. A new world needs new tools. Gear up.

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Distinguished Sounds

December 29th, 2011

Producer Jesse Hardman on the distinctive sounds of some far away places.


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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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Tascam DR-40

December 1st, 2011

Transom is always searching for the ideal field recording devices at the lowest cost. Our TOOLS Editor Jeff Towne just reviewed the new Tascam DR-40 and says, “At last! The recorder we’ve been waiting for! Well, almost…” Read all about it.


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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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