These Are A Few of My Favorite Things
Monday, November 1st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »Irish radio producer, Ronan Kelly. r This Saltcast we break from the format a bit. Ronan Kelly, from RTE, Radio Ireland, visited Salt for a week in October. He hung out in class and worked with the students. What a treat! While Ronan ...
Who’s Your Daddy?
Monday, October 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »r Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound of tyranny -- the tyranny of the clock. Typically, radio stories need to fill a specific length of time in a radio program -- no shorter, no longer. Right. On. Time. Lots of content from ...
Two Weeks
Monday, October 4th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Crow's Lightwriter speech synthesizer. (Photo by Emily Bender) Crow bathes with a caregiver. (Photo by Emily Bender) Crow died of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease in 2007. (Photo by Emily Bender) r A very successful radio and multi-media producer got her start at Salt. She's ...
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
Monday, September 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »"Why now?" Producers often dread this question. "It's simply a good story" they might say. "It doesn't need to answer 'why now?' This is a classic tale of (fill in the blank). It's universal!" But editors ask this question all the time. ...
Cypress Knees
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »A cypress knee -- Jay Allison's memento from a visit to Florida, a tour of a cypress knee museum, and a radio story about "an elevated, transcendent beauty we become aware of at death." (Photo by Rob Rosenthal.) r "Cypress Knees" ...
Powered By Laughter
Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »Katie West smiles to change the world. (Photo by Avery Moore.) r Radio producer Avery Moore heard the following mantra for *four* years at journalism school: DON'T USE MUSIC! Over and over, DON'T USE MUSIC was beaten into her. Journalistically speaking, the logic ...
Dam Radio Story
Monday, August 9th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »President Franklin Roosevelt examines a model of the proposed Quoddy Dam, Eastport, Maine in 1935. The project barely got off the ground before it failed miserably. (Photo courtesy the National Archives.) Leslie Bowman and Normand LaBerge keep the dream of ...
Song of Marconi
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and early radio technology pioneer. r Radio producer Tony Kahn once said of an interviewee "She lives in her voice." What a remarkably succinct way to say how one's voice communicates more than just the words that are ...
Dowser, Consultant to the Universe
Monday, July 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Dowser, Consultant to the UniverseGlenn Johnson's business card reads "Dowser, Consultant to the Universe." Photo by Katherine Hays (2004). A recent interview with This American Life host Ira Glass on Slate.com got me thinking about about an old Salt Radio piece called "Dowser, Consultant ...
How I Get By
Monday, June 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on How I Get ByRebecca Pickett smokes medical marijuana daily to alleviate her debilitating headaches. Photo by Leah Arsenault. r We could call this edition of the Saltcast "The Lexicon Show." I define a few of the quirky phrases and words instructors at Salt use ...
