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Podcasting: Making It

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So you want to make a podcast? You’ve come to the right place. By now you should have completed Course one, Podcasting: Prepping the Big Idea, in our Guide to Podcasting series. Hopefully, you are confident about your story, the content you have to offer and the audience you want to target. Now the fun really starts.

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In this course, you will be guided through how to record, edit and promote your podcast. We’ll examine the elements you need to tell a story that people want to listen to and keep coming back for more.  You’ll also be guided on how to create your own trailer. Now it’s time to let your ears do all the work. It’s time to listen, as we enter the wonderful world of sound. 

The is one other course in this series available on Journalism Now:
Podcasting: The Big Idea
By the end of this course you will:

  • Be able to recognise the importance of sound
  • Know how to capture great audio
  • Recognise how to tell stories using audio as a medium
  • Know how to edit audio in a way to engage your audience
  • Be able to promote your podcast to the widest audience

Catherine Mackie -
Thomson Foundation

Catherine Mackie is the training and communications editor for Thomson Foundation and the course instructor. She’s a former BBC senior journalist with almost 30 years' experience in front of and behind the camera. She’s a recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Louisa Lim - 
University of Melbourne 

Louisa is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne teaching audio journalism and podcasting. She is an award-winning journalist, who reported from China for a decade for NPR and the BBC. Her book The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.

James Smart -
Nation Media Group 

James is the managing editor of Broadcast and New Media at Nation Media Group, the largest independent media house in east and central Africa where he was previously podcast editor. James has extensive experience in the audio world and has been part of the transition of radio documentaries production to online audio distribution and content creation in Africa.

DVL Padma Priya –
Suno India  

Padma is the co-founder and editorial lead at Suno India where she has hosted multiple podcasts on underreported stories such as Dear Pari,  India’s first narrative podcast on child adoption and the award-winning Pinjra Tod Kar on female empowerment. Padma is an independent journalist who has also written for The Hindu and The Wire.

Paul McNally -
Develop Audio 

Paul is the founder of Develop Audio and produced Africa’s first investigative podcast, the award-winning series Alibi. In 2023 he also founded Develop AI to train people globally on how to use AI responsibly. Paul is a former Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard where he researched how community radio can use technology to evolve its news output.

John Shields -
The Economist 

John is the director of podcasts for The Economist, the renowned international weekly journal. Previously, he was a senior editor at the BBC where he created Beyond Today, an award-winning daily news podcast. He was awarded the Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2017.

Nick Garnett -
Journalist and media consultant

Nick is a former BBC News correspondent and pioneer of mobile journalism. He has used his smartphone to record, edit and mix interviews as well as broadcast live for TV and radio.  Nick is now a director and documentary maker at MediaMouth Productions in the UK.

This course was created in partnership with The Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.