The Masterclass Podcast

Louisa Lim explores the booming phenomenon of podcasts with investigative journalist Richard Baker and the ABC’s Rachael Brown. They explore what makes this genre so compelling to audiences, and what does it tell us about ourselves and how far can you push the the story telling. Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Louisa Lim moderated a lively discussion between Natasha Mitchell, host of the ABC's Science Friction and Robert Smith from Planet Money on NPR. They tackled topics such as their individual approaches to a story, how podcasts are pushing the boundaries of narrative story telling and how much of yourself should you insert into a story? Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreigncorrespondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a bookcalled The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 12: Manoush Zomorodi on Engagement and Audience Interaction The smartphone has changed audience interaction forever, and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self is a trailblazer in audience engagement. She talks through extreme engagement, and how she managed to get listeners not just to call in, but to change their lifestyles. Show notes @manoushz Note to Self https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself Bored and Brilliant series https://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and- brilliant Bored and Brilliant; How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Brilliant- Spacing-Productive- Creative/dp/1250124956 Ghosting, Simmering and Icing with Esther Perel https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/esther-perel- online-dating/ I Didn’t See Your Text https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/esther-perel- empathy/ Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreigncorrespondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a bookcalled The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

You have to love and idea and a topic so much that you want to live it, breath it, eat it and marry it. That’s the advice that Radiotopia’s Julie Shapiro gives for anyone who wants to get into podcasting. Show notes @jatomic http://www.julieshapiro.org/who/ Radiotopia https://www.radiotopia.fm/ Ear Hustle https://www.earhustlesq.com/ Millennial http://www.millennialpodcast.org/ 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/ Host details: Louisa Lim is an awardwinning journalist and podcaster. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. The podcast she co-hosts, The Little Red Podcast, has just won News and Current Affairs podcast of the year in the Australian Podcast Awards. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 10: Lyse Doucet on Journalism in Hostile Environments The job of a journalist is to tell the stories of our time. In this episode, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet talks through the challenges facing today's journalists from the conflict frontlines to the increasing hostility to the mainstream media. Show notes @bbclysedoucet The Real Story, What is Fuelling The War in Yemen (BBC World Service) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswx1l Lyse Doucet Reunites With Refugee Family in Canada (BBC) http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37412117/lyse-doucet-reunites-with-syrian-refugee-family-in-canada Syria in the Wake of US-led Missile Strikes (BBC Newshour) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w252dqg20mt Syria: The World's War (BBC Two) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b227d8 Inside Yemen: Three Years of War https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct553w Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of Starting Somewhere a new podcast from the University of Melbourne. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 7: Steve Inskeep on Going Live Going live is one of the trickiest skills for any audio journalist to master. In this episode, NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep draws on his decades behind the mike to outline some of his top strategies for going live. Show notes @nprinskeep Morning Edition https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/ To Escape Civil War, Many Yemenis Flee to Djibouti https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839290/to-escape-civil-war-many-yemenis-flee-to-dijibouti Yemeni Refugees Cross Gulf of Aden to Seek Safety in East Africa https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967396/yemeni-refugees-cross-gulf-of-aden-to-seek-safety-in-east-africa Why Yemen’s War Mostly Remains Out of News Headlines https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839325/why-yemens-war-remains-mostly-out-of-news-headlines US Fast Tracks Missile Defence System to East Asia, Drawing China’s Ire https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/09/519369095/u-s-fast-tracks-missile-defense-system-to-s-korea-drawing-chinas-ire Insurgents in Nigeria Release Most of the Girls Abducted Last Month https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791356/insurgents-in-nigeria-release-most-of-101-schoolgirls-abducted-last-month Major Breaks in Boston Marathon Bombing Case https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177928415/major-breaks-in-boston-marathon-bombing-case Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of Starting Somewhere a new podcast from the University of Melbourne. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment. PHOTO: Aspeninstitute-Internal- https://www.flickr.com/photos/60463478@N08/

Sound and silence are the tools of an audio journalist, and their uses – as emphasis, as illustration, as explication or as a chapter break – are manifold. In this episode, the BBC’s Neal Razzell talks through how to make your pieces sing, and how to go one step further with sound. Show notes Neal Razzell 's Twitter - @NealRazzell Spain’s Battle for the Bull (Documentary Podcast, BBC World Service) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zrkw Last Call From Aleppo (Crossing Continents, Radio 4, BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd778 Audiograph: The Sound of the Brexit Pound http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043px57 Audiograph: The Sound of Climate Change http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043pryr Audiograph: The Sound of Mexican Migration to the US http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dyfg9 Audiograph: Falling Infant Mortality Rates http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0418j8v Opposing Obama (BBC World Service) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100128_opposing_obama_part_1.shtml Podcast series: The Assassination (BBC World Service) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 7: Writing for Radio One of the biggest secrets to writing for radio is not writing for radio, but letting your sound and your interviewees do some of the work. In this episode, Natasha Mitchell of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Radio National walks us through how to show, not always tell, for radio. Show notes Natasha Mitchell's Twitter @natashamitchell http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/natasha-mitchell/2914164 Eugenics, Power and Privilege; Why America had a Nazi Problem Before Charlottesville (Science Friction) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/eugenics-history-us-had-nazi-problem-before-charlottesville/8883074 Calling all Carnivores and Vegetarians; Would You Eat Meat Grown in a Lab? (Science Friction) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/would-you-eat-in-vitro-meat-grown-in-a-lab/9185470 The Secret Life of Children (Earshot) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-secret-life-of-children/7936046 The Secrets Inside Your Cells; Epigenetics, Trauma and Ancestry (Science Friction) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/the-secrets-inside-your-cells/9237992 Recorded at Studio 757, External Relations, University of Melbourne Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 6: The Art of Radio Packages Learn how to fantasize your ideal piece into reality, as well as how to become an audio hunter who knows exactly what they want and how to get it. In this episode, NPR's Robert Smith decodes the structure of a radio news package, talking through the tricks of the trade, and how to do it all on a tight deadline. Show notes: Robert Smith’s Twitter - @radiosmith Harlem Says Its Farewell to James Brown https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692842 Episode 788: Robert And Kenny Go To The Fair https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/11/542893444/episode-778-robert-and-kenny-go-to-the-fair Countdown Begins as Planet Money's Satellite Gets Placed on Rocket https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582513401/countdown-begins-as-planet-moneys-satellite-gets-placed-on-rocket Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 5: Recording in the Field Use your mic like a camera, zooming in and out to getting aural close-ups and wide shots to build texture to your pieces. In this episode, the BBC’s Africa producer Becky Lipscombe talks through how to report in the field including what to take out with you and how to get the sound you need. Show notes Becky Lipscombe’s Soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/beckylip Robert Mugabe Resigns (BBC Newshour) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1h1kz89l2 Zimbabwe; The People Have Spoken https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/zimbabwe-the-people-have-spoken Sierra Leone; The Ebola Orphans https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/sierra-leone-the-ebola-orphans Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 4: Finding Your Voice In audio journalism, you need to sound like yourself plus 10%. But what does that even mean? In this episode, voice coach Elspeth Morrison breaks down how to find your radio voice and use it appropriately. Show notes Elspeth Morrison a voice coach who has worked with journalists for almost twenty years. She has trained many BBC journalists, as well as training actors in her other job as an accent coach. @elspeth27 A Guide to Northern English Accents (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1RpWFqs6CR94G8DqKNVKGrQ/a-guide-to-northern-english-accents Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 3: Interviewing Interviewing is like playing chess; you need to predict two moves ahead and have your figurative pieces in play ready to meet your interviewee there. In this episode, the award-winning journalist Hamish Macdonald talks through the art of the interview, and the importance of holding people in power to account. Show notes Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning Australian broadcaster and foreign correspondent. He sometimes presents ABC Radio National’s Breakfast show, as well as hosts Channel Ten’s The Project. He has also worked at Al Jazeera, ABC America and the UK’s Channel Four. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2016, and won the RTS Young Journalist of the Year in 2008. @hamishnews Michael Wolff dismisses ‘silly’ criticisms of Fire and Fury in Heated Interview (ABC) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/michael-wolff-says-criticisms-of-trump-book-fire-and-fury-silly/9319852 Pray for us; Aleppo is really ‘hell… A firsthand account of life in Syria (ABC) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/dr-farida-almouslem/7837880 Christopher Pyne calls for Sam Dastyari to be Sacked (ABC) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/christopher-pyne-calls-for-sam-dastyari-to-be/7813634 Sam Dastyari Donations Scandal; Christopher Pyne Backtracks from Breach Claim (SMH) https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sam-dastyari-chinese-donations-scandal-christopher-pyne-backtracks-from-breach-claim-20160905-gr8p4y.html The Truth is (Channel 10) https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-truth-is/2013/6/3 Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne. @limlouisa Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Masterclass Episode 2 Finding a Story and Turning It Into Radio In the words of the British comedy figure Alan Partridge, dead air is a crime. But how to go about finding sparkling interviewees to bring your pieces to life? In this episode, Mike Innes, an output editor for BBC World Service’s daily news programme, Newshour, talks through how to find the right guests to bring the airwaves alive. Show Notes Mike Innes is a Senior Broadcast Journalist at the BBC World Service. He has been a radio journalist for 15 years, and for the last six he has been an output editor for the BBC World Service’s Newshour. As a field producer, he reported and field produced from the US, South Sudan, China and many other countries. @mikeinnes76 BBC World Service Newshour 20.11.17 as featured on programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1gp9nynhq Dan Patrick on Newshour 5.1.16 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dnws1 BBC World Service Newshour http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dnws1 Mike Innes and Tim Franks in Florida https://www.facebook.com/907news/videos/10153745868025876/ Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood Host details: Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade, first for BBC and then for NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a nerdy podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne @louisalim Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living team. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. In this role she provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best program and has written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper, and in 2016 she wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

One word is all it takes to sum up the power of audio. The same word kept popping up in my conversations with some of the best audio journalists in the world. Find out what it is, and how to use it to harness the power of audio in this episode. Masterclass Episode 1 The Power of Audio; Learning Through Listening One word is all it takes to sum up the power of audio. The same word kept popping up in my conversations with some of the best audio journalists in the world. Find out what it is, and how to use it to harness the power of audio in this episode. Show Notes Host details: Louisa Lim is an awardwinning radio journalist. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade, first for BBC and then for NPR. She has written a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood More details on the other guests in forthcoming episodes Production Team Buffy Gorrilla is an award winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living team. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. In this role she provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best program and has written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper, and in 2016 she wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment. Contact us on Twitter: @limlouisa Stories Louisa Lim Protests, Self-Immolations A Sign of A Desperate Tibet https://www.npr.org/2012/02/21/147170229/protests-self-immolation-signs-of-a-desperate-tibet Louisa Lim On Tibetan Plateau A Constant Sense of Surveillance (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147256506/on-tibetan-plateau-a-sense-of-constant-surveillance Louisa Lim Ancient Mongolian Competition Ties Past to Present (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2009/09/11/112514153/ancient-mongolian-competition-ties-past-to-present Louisa Lim North Korea Greets its Next Leader (NPR) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130469051 Louisa Lim China’s Migrant Wage Battle (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3413895.stm Louisa Lim Love Songs Capture Ancient Ritual in New China (NPR) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7502196 Louisa Lim Belly Dancing for the Dead; A Day With China’s Top Mourner (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2013/06/26/195565696/belly-dancing-for-the-dead-a-day-with-chinas-top-mourner Robert Smith Countdown Begins As Planet Money’s Satellite Gets Placed On Rocket (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582513401/countdown-begins-as-planet-moneys-satellite-gets-placed-on-rocket