Fiction should stay in its corner, non-fiction in its corner. Or so Rob thought until he heard producer Pippa Johnstone... more

Catherine Carr has turned vox into artful conversation with a deceptively simple question: Where are you going? That's also the... more

Studs Terkel is considered by many to be a patron saint of documentary radio journalism. It's been 15 years since... more

Rob acts as a story DJ on this episode, featuring excerpts from stories he’s recently found pleasing to the ear.... more

What do radio producers Phoebe Judge (Criminal), Zoe Chase (This American Life), Greg Warner (Rough Translation), Matt Kielty (Radiolab), Emily... more

This year's Third Coast Festival winners and finalists produced incredible work. It got us thinking about winners from previous years.... more

It's unusual for a producer to share a work in progress. It's rarer still to do it twice. Nina Porzucki updates Rob... more

Rebecca Hersher, a climate science reporter at NPR, offers excellent tips on reporting on climate change. But, at the heart... more

Summer means cicadas. Those crackly, buzzy bugs that drone and drone in the heat like a live electrical wire spewing... more

Get your headphones on for this episode! Rob dives into three remarkable examples of scoring. He features examples from the... more

Rob's a fan of the "radio art" style of audio storytelling from Europe but often, after listening, he finds himself... more

No matter how good you are recording in the field, you're going to encounter challenges. Rob Byers does an incredible job explaining how to... more

Pushkin Industries released a "Best Of Audio Storytelling: 2022" but instead of putting it out as a podcast series, it's... more

The Sound School Podcast launched 15 years ago this month. But it was called Saltcast back then. And for the... more

Antonia Cereijido has her ear to the ground. It's her job as Executive Producer at LAist to listen to what... more

A light went out recently. The bright light of Chris Brookes — a sorcerer of audio documentary and sound art.... more

What's the value of a non-narrated story for the listener? "It's direct," says NPR's Quil Lawrence. The characters in the... more

Munira Kaoneka first started as a blogger in Tanzania. But she says sometimes you need to shout so she started... more

Rob takes a hard listen to three podcasts -- You Didn't See Nothin', Lights Out, and Noble Champions. He then... more

Steve Junker says he thinks of a radio station as a musical instrument -- a pipe organ, to be specific.... more

In this episode, Rob turns the mic on himself to mark the 10th anniversary of meeting his birth mother for the first time.... more

It's good to look beyond your borders for inspiration. That's what this episode is about. Brian Harnetty is a sound... more

Three great new podcasts raised production questions for Rob. Why use sound effects in All There Is With Anderson Cooper?... more

John Scott Dryden takes a very unique approach to sound design for the fiction podcasts he produces -- he records... more

The vast majority of stories are told by one narrator. But not at NPR's Planet Money. They regularly have co-narrators.... more

What's the best way for reporters to break out of their boxes and think creatively? Give them an unusual assignment... more

Rarely do reporters turn the mic on themselves to divulge the challenges in their own lives. So, when they do,... more

The opening to a story, especially a long series, requires a dance. How much do you give away? How much... more

When you limit language, you limit thinking. When you limit thinking, you limit creativity. When you limit creativity, audio storytellers wind... more

Reporter David Weinberg knows the rule: don't pay sources. For fifteen years, he never did – until he reported on Phoenix... more