The Masterclass
Learning Through Listening: Practical lessons in the art and craft of audio storytelling from some of the best in the world, hosted by Louisa Lim from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Episodes
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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.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.
@limlouisaProduction 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. -
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.
Bored and Brilliant; How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Ghosting, Simmering and Icing with Esther Perel
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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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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
www.julieshapiro.org/who/
Radiotopia
www.radiotopia.fm/
Ear Hustle
www.earhustlesq.com/
Millennial
www.millennialpodcast.org/
99% Invisible
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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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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.
The Real Story, What is Fuelling The War in Yemen (BBC World Service)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswx1l
Lyse Doucet Reunites With Refugee Family in Canada (BBC)www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-ca…ee-family-in-canada
Syria in the Wake of US-led Missile Strikes (BBC Newshour)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w252dqg20mt
Syria: The World’s War (BBC Two)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b227d8Inside Yemen: Three Years of War
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct553wHost 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.
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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.
@nprinskeep
Morning Edition
www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/To Escape Civil War, Many Yemenis Flee to Djibouti
www.npr.org/2018/03/19/59483929…s-flee-to-dijiboutiYemeni Refugees Cross Gulf of Aden to Seek Safety in East Africa
www.npr.org/2018/03/22/59596739…fety-in-east-africaWhy Yemen’s War Mostly Remains Out of News Headlines
www.npr.org/2018/03/19/59483932…t-of-news-headlinesUS Fast Tracks Missile Defence System to East Asia, Drawing China’s Ire
www.npr.org/sections/parallels/…-drawing-chinas-ireInsurgents in Nigeria Release Most of the Girls Abducted Last Month
www.npr.org/2018/03/21/59579135…abducted-last-monthMajor Breaks in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
www.npr.org/2013/04/19/17792841…rathon-bombing-caseHost 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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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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 – @NealRazzellSpain’s Battle for the Bull (Documentary Podcast, BBC World Service)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zrkwLast Call From Aleppo (Crossing Continents, Radio 4, BBC)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd778Audiograph: The Sound of the Brexit Pound
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043px57Audiograph: The Sound of Climate Change
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043pryrAudiograph: The Sound of Mexican Migration to the US
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dyfg9Audiograph: Falling Infant Mortality Rates
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0418j8vOpposing Obama (BBC World Service)
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/docum…obama_part_1.shtmlPodcast series: The Assassination (BBC World Service)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cg…episodes/downloadsRecorded 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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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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 the 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
www.abc.net.au/radionational/nat…-mitchell/2914164Eugenics, Power and Privilege; Why America had a Nazi Problem Before Charlottesville (Science Friction)
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/e…ttesville/8883074Calling all Carnivores and Vegetarians; Would You Eat Meat Grown in a Lab? (Science Friction)
www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro…-in-a-lab/9185470The Secret Life of Children (Earshot)
www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro…-children/7936046The Secrets Inside Your Cells; Epigenetics, Trauma and Ancestry (Science Friction)
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This week, we’re talking news packages with NPR’s Robert Smith, who is a master of filing short news packages on deadline. Robert says structuring packages is not a secret code and you should fantasise about you radio piece before you start making it; who’s the most interesting person you could speak to, what’s the best ending? And never be afraid to ask the dumbest questions or do something stupid in the name of radio.
Robert Smith’s Twitter – @radiosmith
Harlem Says Its Farewell to James Brown
www.npr.org/templates/story/sto…php?storyId=6692842Episode 788: Robert And Kenny Go To The Fair
www.npr.org/sections/money/2017…enny-go-to-the-fairRecorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwoodHost 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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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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.
Becky Lipscombe’s Soundcloud page
@beckylip
Robert Mugabe Resigns (BBC Newshour)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1h1kz89l2
Zimbabwe; The People Have Spoken
Beckylip – Zimbabwe-the-people-have-spoken
Sierra Leone; The Ebola Orphans
Beckylip – Sierra-leone-the-ebola-orphansRecorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwoodHost 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.
@limlouisaProduction 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. -
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180214-Elspeth-Morrison_AIRIn 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.
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.
@elspeth27A Guide to Northern English Accents (BBC)
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwoodHost 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.
@limlouisaProduction 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.
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180127-Hamish-Macdonald_AIRInterviewing 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.
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.
@hamishnewsMichael Wolff dismisses ‘silly’ criticisms of Fire and Fury in Heated Interview (ABC)
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/m…ury-silly/9319852
Pray for us; Aleppo is really ‘hell… A firsthand account of life in Syria (ABC)
www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro…almouslem/7837880
Christopher Pyne calls for Sam Dastyari to be Sacked (ABC)
www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro…ari-to-be/7813634
Sam Dastyari Donations Scandal; Christopher Pyne Backtracks from Breach Claim (SMH)
www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/…60905-gr8p4y.html
The Truth is (Channel 10)
tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-truth-is/2013/6/3Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood
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