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Friday Mar 12
  • Workshop Date(s):
    FALL
  • Registration Deadline:
    TBA
  • Who Will Benefit:
    Individuals with no journalism experience and/or intermediate computer literacy.
  • Optional Materials:
    Digital Recorder + connection cords
    Laptop with Sound Forge Audacity 1.3.8+
  • PRICE:
    $995

Radio Reporting for Beginners

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You too can be a radio reporter! This hands-on training makes radio news writing and production accessible. You will practice gathering quality sound and conduct several field interviews. Write a broadcast style radio news script and get tips on how to read it. Learn how to use the digital editing program, Audacity, and put it all together.  

This training will take you through every stage of the radio news reporting process, and provide you with personal lab hours with our instructors. You will learn:

To use radio as a powerful communications tool,
Marketable skills such as digital recording, audio editing, and internet research techniques.
How to tell your stories and the stories of your community.

By the end of this training you will report, write and produce a radio story.

Media Trainings

Media Trainers

  • Abdulai Bah
    A NYC-based radio reporter for WBAI-FM and Free Speech Radio News.
  • Renee Feltz
    Former news director at KPFT-FM in Houston, and national affairs reporter and editor for Free Speech Radio News.
  • Deepa Fernandes
    Radio Host and features reporter for the BBC World Service, ABC Radio, as well as Pacifica and Public radio networks in the US.