Third Coast Pocket Conference

Hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer has to tackle: how to pitch.Hosted by Leila Day (The Stoop, Pineapple Street Media), the second day of the 2019 Bitchin’ Pitchin’ panel featured the following editors: Jen Chien (Reveal), Erika Clark (Spotify), Kristina Loring (Dipsea)Sign up for Producer News to stay up to date on the latest from Third Coast.The 2019 Third Coast Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer has to tackle: how to pitch.Hosted by Leila Day (The Stoop, Pineapple Street Media), the first day of the 2019 Bitchin’ Pitchin’ panel featured the following editors: Catherine Saint Louis (Neon Hum Media), Maiken Scott (The Pulse) and Robert Smith (Planet Money).Sign up for Producer News to stay up to date on the latest from Third Coast.The 2019 Third Coast Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hurricane Maria. The Pulse Nightclub massacre. Charlottesville. Philando Castile. Uproar over racism at the University of Missouri. Adrián Florido (Code Switch) has spent much of his time at NPR reporting on the aftermath of traumatic events in communities of color.In his 2019 Third Coast Conference session, Adrián spoke about the importance of reporting on people’s pain while avoiding narratives that often strip brown and black people of agency and power.Note: Sessions are presented twice at the Third Coast Conference (once on Friday, once on Saturday). In this episode, you will hear the Q&A from both presentations of the session. Want to keep the conversation going? Follow Adrián Florido on Twitter @adrianflorido and sign up for Third Coast's Producer News.The 2019 Third Coast Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some stories start out small, but turn out to be much, much bigger.Have you ever asked the question: “...is my short news spot better suited to become a multi-part podcast series!?”Jason Moon, reporter with New Hampshire Public Radio, discovered the answer was yes with the story that became Bear Brook, a podcast about murder in a small New Hampshire town and the invention of forensic genetic genealogy. Along the way, he learned a few things: like how writing for longform podcasts is different than writing for short news spots, how inserting yourself into a story can sometimes be a good thing, and how spending precious minutes developing characters in your story isn’t a pointless detour after all.In his 2019 Third Coast Conference session, Jason Moon shared what learned along his journey from public radio beat reporter to longform podcast producer.Note: Sessions are presented twice at the Third Coast Conference (once on Friday, once on Saturday). In this episode, you will hear the Q&A from both presentations of the session. Want to keep the conversation going? Follow Jason Moon on Twitter @jasonmoonNHPR.Images / slides referenced in this session (click here to view full folder):5:29 - Seven minute story script10:50 - Structuring for longform A / Structuring for longform B15:37 - News feature writing example script16:20 - Longform writing example script23:30 - Character description from 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' by John le Carre47:30 - Bear Brook edit process A48:00 - NHPR group edit49:20 - Bear Brook edit process BThe 2019 Third Coast Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the first night of the 2019 Third Coast Conference, all 800+ attendees gathered for a series of short, provocative talks.To view the visuals associated with the following provocations, click here."Be Trans, Do Radio: A Provocation for the Cis** / **Cis means you're not trans" - Cassius Adair & Molly Woodstock"Just Say It: Your Thing is Bad" - Martine Powers"Ike's Rapid-Fire Bias Check" - Ike Sriskandarajah"When You Are Very Stuck" - Tom Howell"You Are Not a Rig and Stories Are Not Oil" - Jenny Casas & Erisa Apantaku"We're All Losing" - Liza Yeager"This Happened" - Janey WilliamsAudio Benediction - James KimWant to keep the conversation going? Sign up for Third Coast's Producer News and follow us on Twitter (@ThirdCoastFest).The 2019 Third Coast Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Because of the situation with COVID-19, we are releasing the rest of the 2019 Third Coast Conference sessions here tomorrow.Sign up for our newsletter Producer News for the latest updates from Third Coast.The 2019 Pocket Conference season was co-produced by Neroli Price and Isabel Vázquez. Third Coast is: Shirley Alfaro, Maya Goldberg-Safir, Isabel Vázquez and Emily Kennedy. Special thanks to the people who made the 2019 Conference possible: Anya Solotaire, Lynnea Domienik, Neroli Price and our amazing 2019 volunteer cohort.Questions, comments, wanna get in touch? Reach out to info@thirdcoastfestival.org — we'd love to hear from you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Swirling beneath every single one of this year’s breaking stories and major crises is work and labor: not only of the people in the headlines, but of the audio storytellers, ourselves.How does the media fail to cover the working class, work, and labor? Why is working class, in media speak, a synonym for "white men?" And how does this impact our culture, our world, and our own spaces of work? Unless we confront the system of media we operate inside of and they way power works within our own industry, we can not properly confront and cover structural power and inequality as journalists and audio storytellers.This opening panel from the 2019 Third Coast Conference was hosted by Sandhya Dirks, with panelists Carla Murphy, Afi Yellow-Duke and Emily Guendelsberger.We have a ton more to share with you – resources, events, dates and more. Sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're BACK with a new season of the Third Coast Pocket Conference! This season: the 2019 Third Coast Conference.Inspired by the energy of the 2018 Awards Ceremony, we're kicking off this season with the award-winning producers who took the stage in Chicago in 2019. You can listen to all of the winning stories from the 2019 competition at ThirdCoastFestival.org.We have a ton more to share with you – resources, events, dates and more. Sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Kaitlin Prest, audio artist, radiophile, creator of The Heart from Radiotopia and The Shadows from the CBC, talked about what has inspired her to push the boundaries of audio making.After ten years creating performances, immersive experiences and an award winning podcast she introduces us into the backbone of her inspiration: art, intersectional feminism, and her best friends.You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon!).We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as our eyes work together to create a sense of depth perception, so too do our ears...And yet, so few radio and podcast productions take advantage of the full stereo field—how differences between the “left” and “right” sides of a mix work together to create an immersive sense of space. How can we use this space to help us show vs. tell in radio storytelling, and create more visceral auditory imagery? In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Brendan Baker shared ideas, tools, and techniques to enhance our sense of space as both listeners and producers.You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript (coming soon).We're sharing so much more each week - sign up for Producer News to stay in the loop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.