Third Coast Pocket Conference

Audie Cornish and Sean Cole came up in radio together — smoking on the front steps of WBUR in Boston, puzzling over stories. Now Audie is a co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and Sean is a producer at This American Life.But they still talk all the time about different ways of making radio, and how the divide between "newsy news" and "fun storytelling" might just be in our heads. They bring that conversation on stage and play samples of their favorite things for each other, and for you.Recorded at the 2016 Third Coast Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.They discuss the narrative and reporting techniques they used to help resurrect a long-dead discussion of school segregation in their Peabody-winning This American Life collaboration, and how to translate longform print journalism into the language of radio.Recorded at the 2016 Third Coast Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You don’t want your audience to listen half-heartedly – you want them to be so deeply engaged, they’re a little surprised when they bump down to earth at the end.So how do we create audio that doesn’t just entertain, but enchant? UK producer Cathy FitzGerald shows how she hooks her listeners: head, heart, guts and soul. In this session, she offers practical tips on creating an intense, tangible world through scripting, structure and surprise – and then considers the magic that happens when we take a step back and let listeners make sense of it for themselves.Recorded at the 2016 Third Coast Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the ink on the ballots still wet, Third Coast dives into the past year of political reporting. How were journalists most - and least - successful covering the presidential election and its voters? And: where do we go from here?Bob Garfield ( On the Media ) moderates with panelists Zoe Chace ( This American Life ) Maria Hinojosa ( Latino USA ), and Sam Sanders (NPR).Recorded at the 2016 Third Coast Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.