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Third Coast Pocket Conference
by Third Coast International Audio Festival
The Third Coast Pocket Conference is the start of the next great story — featuring sessions from Third Coast Conferences and more.Subscribe to learn about creating audio stories from some of the most creative and innovative minds from the podcasting world and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Start from the Beginning (2019)
Most people can recount the facts of their situation, but how do you get them to tell you an actual story? Interviewing for narrative calls for a slightly different set of interview muscles – from the kinds of questions you ask, to helping a source tap into details and emotion of moments long…
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Audio To Film, And Back Again (2019)
Can you make the move from audio to film, without leaving audio behind? At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Jasmin Mara López (Silent Beauty) led a conversation about the journey from experienced audio producer to first-time filmmaker. She laid out the steps she took on this personal and...
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Dark & Funny, Like Your Life: Sound Design With Feeling (2019)
You know about reading between the lines, right? Well good sound design can make you dance between the lines. And when you’re talking about big, uncomfortable ideas — sound can be a super powerful tool to have on hand. Suicide often reminds us of those four magic words: "just ask for help." But...
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Sex Sells (2019)
Sex sells, sure, but who gets to cash in on it? How can journalists honestly and accurately cover sex workers without sensationalizing or further stigmatizing their work? And can the answers provide meaningful & challenging insights for audio producers specifically who make stories about...
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Midwifing the Story: The Art of Editing (2019)
We’ve all heard the old adage: Everyone needs an editor. Whether you’re working in print, film, or narrative audio — you need someone to check for structure, make sure you’re meeting deadlines, and generally help get the story to the finish line. Jen Chien, who works as an editor at Reveal from…
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Calling the Shots with Steve and Nishat (2019)
The audio industry is changing -- and your role as a leader might well be changing with it. Making the transition from reporter to editor, from producer to executive producer, or from player to coach isn’t always easy. In this session from the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Steve Edwards (WBEZ) and...
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Hearing Outside The Lines: Documenting Beyond Truth (2019)
What does truth look like when everything around us seems to hold the strange gasps of fiction? At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, this panel delved into a deep conversation about new methods of intertwining documentary, fiction & story to tell, dare we say it, even truer stories. It was hosted…
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Gonna Make You Sweat (2019)
What does it feel like when artists challenge conventional radio and allow their lived experiences to inform their work? In their 2020 Third Coast Conference session, NK, Phoebe, Mara and Ari - the founding members of RADIO (R)EJECTS - employed Sara Ahmed’s term ‘sweaty concepts’ to explore first...
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Johanna Zorn's Favorite Things (2019)
At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Johanna Zorn took the stage to share her experiences and her lifelong love of radio. 20 years ago, Johanna Zorn co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival with Julie Shapiro. Then last year, Johanna announced that she was moving on from Third Coast...
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The Right to Bear Data (2019)
Data has power but also serves power, which means it can be profoundly hard to navigate and understand. At the same time, the difference between a good investigation and an exceptional one is bound up in data. So how can you use data to transform your reporting, deepen your narrative, and offer...
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Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Part 2 (2019)
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...
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Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Part 1 (2019)
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…
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All That Lingers (2019)
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...
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Beat Reporter With A Sneaking Suspicion... (2019)
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…
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Provocations (2019)
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…
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Update from Third Coast
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.…
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ALL WORKPLACES ARE WORKPLACES ABOUT POWER (2019)
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...
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Awards Ceremony (2019)
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...
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Kaitlin Prest's Favorite Things (2018)
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...
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Depth Perception: Techniques for two ears (2018)
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...
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I Love Language (2018)
Behind many audio stories, there’s stacks of paper and documents full of text. Old interview transcripts that predate recording technology. Letters found in a box. Court records. Emails. In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, John Delore discussed ways to bring these materials to...
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The Art of Noise (2018)
What does it mean for a podcast or radio story to be “innovative” or “experimental”? Is it in the writing? The structure? The use of sound? At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Andrew Leland and Michelle Macklem traced the roots of narrative audio from some of the form’s newest producers back...
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Let The Work Be What It Wants To Be (2018)
Using found reels of an old wire recorder from the 1950's, interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi created her performance piece, "Say Something Bunny!" heralded by the New York Times as “forthrightly funny and briefly pornographic, it is also sneakily moving." At the 2018 Third Coast...
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Writing for the Ear to See (2018)
We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce... No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? How do we find those…
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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Day 2 (2018)
At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of...
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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel - Day 1 (2018)
At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is producer Leila Day of Pineapple Street Media and co-host of...
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Provocations (2018)
What are provocations? Imagine that you’re hashing out an issue you care deeply about in audio with a friend - except this time, it's live in front of a room of hundreds of people. Don’t be afraid to get shaken up. The 2018 Third Coast conference opened with provocations from: Stan Alcorn, Stacia...
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Podcasting Without a Net(work) Day 2 (2018)
Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain,...
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Podcasting Without a Net(work) Day 1 (2018)
Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job... At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain,...
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Beyond True Crime (2018)
True crime podcasts are everywhere. But in 2018, we listened to one murder mystery series that stood out in extraordinary ways. It’s called Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo. We were so impressed by the work of journalist Connie Walker and her team that we chose Finding Cleo as the winner of our...
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Immersion Reporting: How to stay in one place and get deeper stories (2018)
Whether you’re a longform documentary maker, or reporting a short news spot, you need to have a deep understanding of the people and places you’re covering. WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and Snap Judgment producer Adizah Eghan both believe in telling deeper stories through staying in one place. But...
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Marie Kondo Never Worked in Pro Tools (2018)
Building a radio story often means hours (Dozens? Hundreds?) of tape, reams of written notes, photos, links, and research... It is very easy to get lost in this mountain of material — unsure of what or even where your best stuff is. Eric Mennel (formerly a producer of StartUp) has reported...
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Jumping Into The Fray: Member stations making new noise in the podcast arena (2018)
Podcasting has shaken up the way public media reporters & journalists tell stories - in some deeply exciting and innovative ways! How can audio producers in public media, including member stations outside of major markets, continue to innovate storytelling formats - even while taking risks, or...
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Who You Talkin' To? Audience & Your Authentic Voice (2018)
Come hang with journalists Leila Day and Hana Baba, co-hosts of The Stoop Podcast: stories from across the Black diaspora. Born out of the side conversations they had while microwavin' their lunches in the kitchen of KALW where they worked together, The Stoop digs into things Black communities…
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Beyond the Recording Booth: Partnering with Storytellers Across Mediums
How can audio storytelling translate to — and interact with — media like photography and print, and platforms like public installations and live events? And how to conceive and develop such projects? At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, independent producer Ruxandra Guidi and Sayre Quevedo, a...
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Spotlight: Family Separation at the Border (2018)
In June of 2018, ProPublica released a piece of audio that would come to define one of the most critical news stories of the year: the separation and detention of families seeking asylum at the U.S. - Mexico border. The opening panel of the 2018 Third Coast Conference explored the extensive...
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ALL STORIES ARE STORIES ABOUT POWER (2018)
Two moments are colliding: An oppressive politics of hate and repression, and a boom in narrative storytelling. So how do we use one to confront the other? It’s time to think deeply, meta-critically, and proactively about the work of narrative storytelling; to challenge the ways that podcasts...
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Awards Ceremony (2018)
We're kicking off this season of the Pocket Conference with the closing event of the conference: the Awards Ceremony for the 2018 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. This year's Awards Ceremony was historic for a few reasons. First and foremost: when the award-winning...
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Audiocraft 2018: Small Acts of Reinvention
On this episode we’re bringing you another session from the 2018 Audiocraft Conference in Sydney, Australia. While there's often talk about creating the Next Big Thing in podcasting, Eleanor McDowall (Falling Tree Productions & Radio Atlas) and Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist from Radiotopia) are...
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Audiocraft 2018: Fine Tune
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Experiments in Generative Sound Design (2017)
In this session from the 2017 Third Coast Conference, sound artist and designer Stephan Moore demonstrates his approach to sound design. He explains how he incorporates generative techniques into a range of unusual projects, including a 500 lb. ear training device, a 40-speaker installation in…
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The Tyranny of Good Talkers (2017)
Often, the first question a show or editor will ask you when you pitch them an amazing story is whether your subject is "a good talker." But what if they're not? What if English is their second or third language? Or they come from a culture that tells stories that under-emphasize the self? Do…
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The Argument of "Objectivity" (2017)
Is traditional “objectivity” in journalism on its way out? In this session from the 2017 Third Coast Conference, NPR editor Alicia Montgomery and reporter/editor Shaya Tayefe Mohajer hash out points of agreement and disagreement over the role of "objectivity" in radio and print. Hosted on Acast....
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No One's Source (2017)
After a lifetime in the system, Noel Anaya got unprecedented permission from family court to record the hearing where he’d age out of foster care--and worked with Youth Radio to, in his words, “blow it up on NPR.” Noel and two Youth Radio producers, Teresa Chin and Lissa Soep, go deep into the...
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Playing with Reality & Pushing the Boundaries (2017)
Imagine opening your work to the possibilities of drama and fiction that can bring a rich, more expansive story to life. Think of the elements you could incorporate… dreams, satire, flashbacks, recreations, invented characters, fantasy plot turns, speculative futures, and much more. And what does...
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Beyond the Green: Radical Encounters in Interviewing (2017)
Performance art and audio journalism probably don’t seem like they have much overlap. But Multimedia-maker Sook-Yin Lee and audio artist Veronica Simmonds strongly disagree. In this session from the 2017 Third Coast Conference, the pair talked about the unconventional inspirations they used to...
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The Confessional: When is a Personal Story Worth Sharing? (2017)
Turning the mic on yourself is not easy. Baring your heart and soul for anyone to hear can be a bit terrifying. At the 2017 Third Coast Conference, reporter Sally Herships retraced the making of her story, 'As Many Leaves.' She walked through the process of creating her meditation on loss and...
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How to Become an Investigative Reporter with One Simple Trick (2017)
Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark of APM Reports' In the Dark, love the intimacy of radio and the power it has to transport us into other people’s lives. But as producers of an investigative podcast, they think audio storytelling can do more. At the 2017 Third Coast Conference, they explained…
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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel Pt. 2 (2017)
AIR’s Bitchin' Pitch Panel puts three people directly in front of a panel of editors, where they pitch their stories and everyone gets insight into the process. There to help the pitchers and moderate in 2017 was producer Leila Day, co-host of The Stoop podcast. This is the second of two Bitchin’...
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AIR's Bitchin' Pitch Panel Pt. 1 (2017)
AIR’s Bitchin' Pitch Panel puts three pitchers directly in front of a panel of editors, where they sell their stories and everyone gets a little insight in to the process. There to help the pitchers and moderate in 2017 was producer Leila Day, co-host of The Stoop podcast. This first of two...
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The Third Coast Pocket Conference is the start of the next great story — featuring sessions from Third Coast Conferences and more.Subscribe to learn about creating audio stories from some of the most creative and innovative minds from the podcasting world and beyond.
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