HowSound

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HowSound is a bi-weekly podcast pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio production.

Each episode highlights the work of independent producers such as Dave Isay, Joe Richman, Hillary Frank, and Dmae Roberts.

HowSound is produced by Rob Rosenthal for PRX and Transom.

The podcasts are available as free MP3 streams and downloads on iTunes, other podcast directories, and here at PRX.

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The backstory to great radio storytelling.

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#87 - Bionic Pancreas
From: HowSound
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In the newest HowSound Podcast from PRX and Transom, host Rob Rosenthal explores the producer/reporter relationship in conversation with producer R...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 14:57
  • Purchases: 1
#86 - Strangers
From: HowSound
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Lea Thau, host of the "Strangers" podcast on podcasting, journalism, and turning the mic toward herself.

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
#85 - Early Bloom
From: HowSound
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On this edition, we follow the path from script to a produced story about plant communication with Peter Frick-Wright and Robbie Carver.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 19:29
  • Purchases: 2
#84 - HowSound Live! - Death of a Bangalore Law Student with Michael May
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A HowSound first: a live recording in front of an audience. The guest is Michael May who talks about his story "Death of a Bangalore Law Student."

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
#83 - Compassionate Release
From: HowSound
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Natasha Haverty talks about her path from reporting on dairy princess pageants to award-winning investigative stories on prisons for North Country ...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 20:18
  • Purchases: 1
#82 - The Hitchhiker
From: HowSound
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On this HowSound, Scott Carrier, Alex Chadwick, and the legendary story behind Scott's first radio piece "The Hitchhiker," produced in 1983.

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 35:25
  • Purchases: 1
81 - Hard to Say
From: HowSound
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On this episode, a 2004 "Best New Producer" award-winner from Third Coast and a real tearjerker produced by Bente Birkeland.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:08
  • Purchases: 2
#80 - Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
From: HowSound
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The staff at Studio 360 dissects the production, writing, and voicing of their recent broadcast from 1914.

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 15:52
  • Purchases: 2
#79 - 3rd Grade Audio
From: HowSound
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Stories about drawing, getting old, stuffed animals, and what to do when you get a magnet stuck up your nose. It must be David Green's "Third Grade...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 33:44
  • Purchases: 1
#78 - Five Things
From: HowSound
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If I had to pick a story for a "Top Ten Favorite Student Features," "Five Things" by Matt Largey would be one of them because of the incredible int...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 1

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  • Payment: $75.00 flat fee
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People who work with HowSound

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Kerri Hoffman
CEO
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Rob Rosenthal (Admin)
Owner, Shunpike Media
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Samantha Broun
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Robert DeBenedictis
Information Technology
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Genevieve Sponsler
Sr Managing Producer
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Jennifer Jerrett
Interim Managing Editor, Transom
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Distro Dovetail Admin
PRX Publish/Metrics admin
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Alanna Vaughns
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Courtney Fleurantin