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A workshop and showcase for new public radio.

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Transom turns 25 this year & we’re throwing a festival for YOU. September 17–19 // Woods Hole, MA

Workshops, live performances & music, beach time, opportunities to make stuff, and a party.

Tickets & details→ https://t.co/c6XSejTINm

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"The Sonic Memorial Project" is a remarkable, hour-long documentary from The Kitchen Sisters, produced in 2002 on the first anniversary of the attack. This is The Kitchens Sisters at their best.

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Sound School is launching a new series, Old School Sound School, featuring classic and rare documentaries 20-plus years old. The series begins by marking the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
Listen: https://t.co/uCm2bgnKeL

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@fotwradio So glad to hear this!

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Transom turns 25 this year & we’re throwing a festival for YOU. September 17–19 // Woods Hole, MA

Workshops, live performances & music, beach time, opportunities to make stuff, and a party.

Tickets & details→ https://t.co/c6XSejTINm

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https://t.co/11uXI7wsa7

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The full #Transom25 program is here. 🎙️

Every workshop, every title, every audio storyteller teaching in Woods Hole Sept 17–19 — plus Ira Glass & Martine Powers, Nichole Hill, Al Letson, and a 25th-birthday bash to close it out.

Full schedule ↓

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Another month, another list of audio opportunities! The All Hear newsletter collects opportunities for radio journalists, podcast creators, sound artists, and all things audio across the world--and our August edition is out!

https://t.co/1MHA9VlKFx

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A breath may seem like the most insignificant detail in an audio story. But, actually, the opposite is true. For proof, all you have to do is listen to stories where the breaths are cut out. On today's Sound School, a primer on editing breaths.

https://t.co/wz2La852tu

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Latest edition of All Hear just dropped! It’s a monthly newsletter where highlighting exciting opportunities in audio. This July we have lots of art residencies for the sound artists! And large scale funding for audio folks in the EU & UK.

https://t.co/Txria9jEC8

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In her recent obituary, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold is remembered as an "unstoppable, one-of-a-kind reporter." That's evident in the stories that took her around the world with a mic. Today on Sound School, hear her piece about an excursion to the North Pole: https://t.co/YY3jwGDljl

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Tiny radio documentarians, celebrating slowness, and Chill Beefs on our newsletter, Over the Transom:

https://t.co/leDVKiaqis

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Editorial Director @camilasegura got her PhD in Spanish Lit for Columbia in 2007; after figuring out academia wasn't her think, she joined the Radio Ambulante in 2012. Since then her work has won the Third Coast/Driehaus Award, two Premio Simón Bolívar prizes, among others.

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New speakers alert: joining us this fall for #transom25 are the fine folks behind @radioambulante!

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Executive Producer @DanielGAlarcon writes about Latin America for the New Yorker, was a MacArthur Fellow in 2021, and was the host, lead reporter, and a writer for The Good Whale, a podcast by Serial Productions and The New York Times.

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Transom director Sophie Crane worked with talented producers across the country to capture the voices of everyday Americans reflecting on the nation at 250, for the New Yorker Radio Hour, hosted by historian Jill Lepore. The Transom version debuts today!

https://t.co/oc9OSkeVdO

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Cloe Axelson, a senior editor at WBUR, was feeling like the essays she produced that were written by listeners weren't sounding conversational enough -- until she deployed this one simple trick. Find out more on today's episode of Sound School:

https://t.co/xN6KMm5X3W

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It's the man, it's the myth, it's the radio legend: @JadAbumrad is coming to #Transom25!

Jad is the creator of hit shows like Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America, and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man. He studied creative writing & music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio.

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Our amazing #Transom25 presenters train keeps rolling! Audrey Quinn has edited for Stolen, ESPN's 30 for 30, and more while her reporting has featured on Planet Money, 99% Invisible, and more. A Pulizter winner, these days she teaches at NYU, and before that, was a TA at Transom!

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It’s Sound School’s 100th episode! For this special milestone, Rob talks about one of his favourite audio documentaries–a piece so powerful that when he played it once, listeners stood up & waved their arms to yell “Turn it off! Turn it off!” Listen here:

https://t.co/UAKRhtPREE

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New presenter drop: @alexjrlewis joins us at #Transom25!

Alex is the cofounder of Rowhome Productions based in Philly, a production agency specializing in narrative audio projects. His work has appeared on NPR, BBC Radio 4 and elsewhere. He's also a Transom workshop alum!

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Erica Heilman joins the #Transom25 line-up!

Erica is the creator of Rumble Strip, an independent podcast based in East Calais, Vermont. She's also written for Transom, including her "Rules for Radio" which you can read on our website!

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