This document provides an overview of audio journalism and recommendations for creating effective audio content. It discusses how audio has become more accessible through mobile platforms like AudioBoo and SoundCloud. It also lists types of audio that work well like debates, banter, and interviews. The document provides tips for audio reporting such as using microphones, collecting natural sounds, asking clear questions, and editing audio files. Ethical considerations for audio journalism are also mentioned.

1. Audio Journalism
More accessible than ever

2. Why “audio” and not
“radio”?

3. Mobile audio
Reporting Tools:
Audio Boo
Sound Cloud
Examples:
Simple clip or soundbite
Invite participation

4. Audio Boo
 Twitter for audio

5. Soundcloud
 Apps

6. What’s to like?
 Presence
 Sound as a reporting element
 Emotion
 Storytelling

7. Good audio stuff*
 1. DEBATE ( conflict)
 2. BANTER
 3. INTERVIEWS
 4. MONOLOGUE
*(These recommendations from Journalism professor Paul Bradshaw)

8. Radio Diaries
 Write script
 Enunciate
 Use natural sound
 Example 1 (what works? What’s missing or could
improve this?)

9. Other radio
 Interview reporter for summary or behind scenes
 Roundtable sources
 Call-in
 Slideshows
 News
 &more & more
 Software: Soundslides & Final Cut

10. Audio basics
 Know your equipment
 Use a mic
 Pay attention to location sounds (some you want – see
below- and some avoid)
 Collect Natural sounds/ambient
 Shut up!
 Learn to frame questions
 Ask them to repeat

11. Editing
 Garage Band
 Audacity

12. Ethical Audio

13. Tommy Tomlinson: What a
song tells us about
journalism
 Concrete detail.
 Dialog.
 Suspense.
 Imagery.
 Meaning. (“Every narrative has a plot. Great
narratives reach higher to make a point. The best
let you in to work out their meaning for yourself.”)