The best stories – even the written ones – have audio. Maybe it’s a sensibility: voice or style, which Ben Yagoda explores in his craft book The Sound on the Page. Maybe it’s a structural/pacing device (think of the … Read more
At last month’s Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, in Boston, hundreds of reporters attended dozens of sessions on everything from analyzing unstructured data to working with the coolest web tools and building a digital newsroom. The conference, which started in the 1970s, … Read more
[This is Part 3 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC’s Dispatches radio program. Parts 1 and 2 ran earlier this week.] We at Dispatches have seen thousands of first-draft scripts … Read more
[This is Part 2 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC’s Dispatches radio program. Part 1 ran yesterday.] The following are things you should start to figure out before you go out and … Read more
