Podcasting 1 Start Your Podcast
Online Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30, Nov 20, Dec 4 (5 Wednesday Afternoons)5:30pm - 8:30pm Pacific$4952 Spots Left
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Is it your dream to create the next Serial, This American Life, or Startup? If so, this is the class for you! In this five-week Online Podcasting Class, Podcasting expert David Weinberg will teach you the fundamentals of this engaging new storytelling form. Through informative craft lectures, in-class writing exercises, deconstructing successful podcasts and hands-on technical training you will learn how top tier shows are developed, researched, written, and produced.
In addition, you will explore tools of the trade such as interviewing techniques, audio editing basics, use of archival audio, miking and field recording techniques. By the end of the class you will have thoroughly developed an idea for your own podcast and have at least a solid outline of your pilot episode plus a recording of a short teaser. Pulitzer not included.
Required Equipment:
1. A WIFI ready laptop, onto which you’ll need to download a free audio editing software like Audacity or Garage Band or a paid program like Hindenburg.
2. An inexpensive audio recorder, or an iPhone or cell phone with a good voice recording app.
David Weinberg
Time Best Podcast, NPR's Marketplace
David Weinberg is a Los Angeles based journalist and radio producer. His podcast The Superhero Complex (iHeartRadio) was selected by Time magazine as one of the best podcasts of 2022 and was optioned by NBC. In 2023, his podcast Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto (Crooked Media) was optioned by FX. His podcast Welcome to LA was named one of the best podcasts of 2018 and 2020. He also makes the experimental short form podcast Random Tape. His stories have been featured on 99% Invisible, Radiolab, The World, Love and Radio, and the BBC. He was a staff reporter at Marketplace and a reporter at KCRW. His story "Grace of the Sea" was named "One of the 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015" by The Atlantic and his feature about an underground french fry maverick won a national Edward R. Murrow for best feature reporting in 2017. His print work has been published in The New York Times. MORE