While home this past summer, I spent some time at my favourite campus/community radio station, CKDU. On more than one occasion, I happened upon meetings for the CKDU Pop Culture Collective. I could tell that something exctiting was brewing.
And for the past few weeks, I’ve been enjoying the fruits of the collective’s labour: Popped Culture. […]
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The Future of Radio
From NPR’s Day to Day, a report on “two new products for radio listeners” — portable satellite radio and podcasting. You can listen to it here.
Staying up late listening to radio
Up way too late tonight. Listened to Invisible Ink Radio #67: Subservience, the latest Listening Lounge, and both hour one and hour two of October 23rd’s Weekend America.
The last three, plus a heads up that both the Listening Lounge and Weekend America are looking for pitches, came via Tod Maffin’s I Love Radio.org. Thanks Tod.
Outfront
Poking around the Outfront website, I came across their Pitch section. I remember looking at this section sometime last year, but I don’t remember seeing all this. It’s got helpful hints, a guide to the pitching process, and some basic recording techniques. The material seems to be culled mostly from their old Tell section.
Conflict of Interest
Phoned Joe Mahoney and Stuart Einer at the CBC today to set up meetings. Voicemail on both counts. Why? Because I’m in class during the ideal times to call. For the past two days, I haven’t been able to get that last 1/2 hour of tape reviewed for the Sean Ward piece, because I’ve been […]
Lists! Lists! Lists!
Progress:
Only an hour of tape left to make notes on for the Sean Ward piece
Got some halfway decent Silver Snail tape
Heard back from Brian from the polka band. He thinks the idea is “a blast,” and I’m tentatively scheduled to sit in on a polka jam in early November
Lost a Polka Dot Door contact; will […]
Error 404
Was looking through some old bookmarks and came across a link to the CBC Freelancer’s FAQ, which I remembered as a nice little resource. But for some reason, they took it offline. Probably because most of the contact names and phone numbers listed are out-of-date.
Nevertheless, there’s some good info, and through the miracle of the […]
More Sawatsky on interviewing
American Journalism Review:
Leave the values out, he says, and problems solve themselves. Instead of asking Sarah Ferguson, for example, ‘Is it hard being a duchess?’ ask: ‘What’s it like being a duchess?’ Instead of asking Ronald Reagan, ‘Were you scared when you were shot?’ ask: ‘What’s it like to be shot?’
The Way We Ask
An interesting article from Poynter.org. John Sawatsky, whose “off the shelf” questions came up in conversation over the weekend, is discussed.
Apparently Sawatsky has been working for years on a book about interviewing. If it ever comes out, I’d love to read it. I know he did training seminars with the CBC. Maybe he’ll do lectures […]
Things I should do
Monday is my day off.
Last night, I started to make notes on my Sean Ward tape, listening to the stuff I collected when I spent the afternoon with him as he sold his comic books on Queen Street. Today, the plan is to listen to the two hours I recorded in his his studio, and […]
