I recently finished work on another hour-long doc by producer Trey Key:Ā The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom. For more than a half a century, citizens of the Lone Star State have had intense, emotional battles over what children should and shouldnāt be taught in public school classrooms.Ā Ā Ā While there have…
I recently spoke with WAMC’s Susan Barnett for her show 51% – The Women’s Perspective. She asked me about freelancing and gave a nice shout out to my siteĀ Freelance Cafe. It was fun to be on the other side of the mic for a change! This wasĀ Episode 1220, broadcast on November 29 at 8pm and…
On October 22, I was part of the The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s “Pimp your Podcast” Panel with Amanda Aronczyk (moderator), Jim Colgan of Soundcloud, Adam Davidson of Planet Money, and Ashley Milne-Tyte, producer of the amazing podcast The Broad Experience. We talked about the differences between online audio and broadcast radio and how…
I spent a good chunk of this summer and fall editing the radio portion of a multimedia project with my old boss from Terrain MagazineĀ and a kickass young reporter Emily Johnson.Ā This was forĀ Project Word, a non-for-profit that helps give voice to underrepresented journalists and stories. It’s the story of oil giant ExxonMobil and the atrocities…
I have done dozens of tape syncs as a freelancer and I rarely get to hear how the tape I gather gets used. But this time was different. My friend and fellow j-school graduate Tamara Keith needed sound from Schoharie, NY, a city that was hit hard by Hurricane Irene. So I drove up there…
Yet another award for Trey Kay’s The Great Textbook War. This was a biggie – the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards – celebrating the year’s best in broadcast journalism. Trey invited the whole team to celebrate with him at the awards ceremony in NYC, hosted by the Today Show’s Lester Holt and CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.…
I just completed this piece for the 2010 Third Coast Festival Short Doc competition. All You Need Is a Wall: A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again. This year’s assignment: For the 2010 ShortDocs Challenge – Book Odds – we teamed up with The Books, IOHO one of the most…
Every couple years, the Third Coast Festival sponsors the “Short Doc” competition – to find the best short audio pieces, 3-minutes or less, around a certain theme. In 2007, this was the assignment: Dollar Storeys invited seasoned producers and radio fans alike to submit short audio works inspired by one of three items purchased at…
The Great Textbook War keeps raking in the awards – this time a 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award. Go Trey! (Trey Kay is the producer and brain behind the doc and the guy who hired me to help out.) I’m so honored to have my name in the credits, and I’m so thankful that…
I had the great fortune to work on this hour-long radio documentary with producer Trey Key, who won a 2010 Peabody Award for the piece. Trey recorded his scratch tracks in my new home studio, and I’m hoping that sets the bar high for the work that will be produced out of there. I edited…