Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio

Berry, Richard

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“…The international movement towards personal audio narrative journalism is intrinsically linked to what many scholars describe as the intimate nature of radio as a medium (see for example Berry, 2006;Crisell, 1994;Douglas, 2004). The rapid growth of this storytelling style, best illustrated by an explosion of narrative-driven podcasts and their growing download metrics 2 is not surprising considering radio's capacity to privilege the unique and emotional qualities of the human voice sharing personal experiences.…”

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Balancing personal trauma, storytelling and journalistic ethics: a critical analysis of Kirsti Melville's The Storm

Lindgren¹

2015

RDR

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When Kirsti Melville's documentary The Storm about the life-long impact of child sexual abuse was broadcast in 2014, it contributed to a public debate about sexual abuse. Hundreds of listeners commented on the ABC Radio National website and Facebook pages, expressing how deeply moved they were, praising both the subject of the story Erik and the journalist Kirsti for their bravery and honesty in making the documentary, and remarked that Erik's personal story helped them understand the issue better. Kirsti Melville won three national awards for her program, which also documented her personal story as Erik's former partner.This critique analyses the award-winning documentary through a lens of personal and confessional audio journalism, drilling deep into lived experiences of the human condition. It highlights the power of this type of intimate journalism in creating compelling storytelling with a clear journalistic purpose and a call for action. It also highlights the ethical and emotional challenges of the journalist being a character of the story and the complexities of producing radio documentaries that document human trauma without exploiting the subject. When Kirsti Melville's documentary The Storm about the life-long impact of child sexual abuse was broadcast in 2014, it contributed to a public debate about sexual abuse. Hundreds of listeners commented on the ABC Radio National website and Facebook pages, expressing how deeply moved they were, praising both the subject of the story Erik and the journalist Kirsti for their bravery and honesty in making the documentary, and remarked that Erik's personal story helped them understand the issue better. Kirsti Melville won three national awards for her program, which also documented her personal story as Erik's former partner.

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Section: Building Empathy and Audience Engagement Through Intimacy Anmentioning

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Balancing personal trauma, storytelling and journalistic ethics: a critical analysis of Kirsti Melville's The Storm

Lindgren¹

2015

RDR

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“…Robert Rej 1,2* † "Podcast," a noun now firmly entrenched in the vernacular, is a recently minted portmanteau suggested just 10 years ago (1,2 ). It is sobering to note that other proposals to name the then-new phenomenon of audio production distributed over the Internet included "Audioblogging" and "GuerillaMedia" (2 ).…”

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“…We hope that you have enjoyed this audio feature, and if you have not yet listened, we invite you to sample those that might interest; look for the distinctive red earbud icon in the Table of In a recent article in in Science Translational Medicine, Knoppers et al bring to light issues surrounding a potential shift in newborn screening (NBS) 3 programs from biochemical assays to sequencing (1 ). As the cost of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) falls, genetic testing of all newborns is increasingly a fiscal option.…”

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Podcasts Go Platinum!

Rej

2014

Clinical Chemistry

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“…Secondly, new digital multimedia broadcasting systems have been developed especially for mobile use 8 . Internet audio is also gradually becoming more mobile, thanks both to new technology and hardware such as proliferating wireless Internet systems 9 and portable mp3 players as well as new software and programming innovations like podcasting (Berry 2006). In this way, there is now a wide selection of both competing alternative and complementary technological options for digital audio media delivery (cf.…”

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The Future of Radio is Still Digital—But Which One? Expert Perspectives and Future Scenarios for Radio Media in 2015

Ala-Fossi

Lax

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Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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The future of radio is now much less obvious and clear than it appeared ten years ago. Instead of a transition from analog to digital audio broadcasting (DAB), there is a selection alternative technological options for digital audio delivery.This article studies how 43 people in key positions related to the radio industry in four European countries and Canada view the future of radio and which delivery technologies they consider will be most successful. In addition, it analyses the motives and reasons for why certain technologies are seen as more promising. Finally, it presents different future scenarios for radio media. The Future of Radio is Still Digital 1The development of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) began during the late 1980s in an EU-supported Eureka 147 project, originally intended to give the European electronics industry a competitive advantage through the digitalization of radio (Rudin 2006;Lax 2003).When DAB was first introduced in 1995, there was an optimistic and perhaps even deterministic expectation that the superior new digital radio system would replace analog FM radio in a relatively short and smooth transition from analog to digital audio broadcasting (O'Leary 1993;Kozamernik 1995;Mykkänen 1995). The first set-back came in the 1990s, when the USA and Japan decided to develop separate digital radio systems to protect their own national industries (Ala-Fossi & Stavitsky 2003) and DAB lost the chance of becoming a truly worldwide system for digital radio. However, with the support of the World DAB organization and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), it was widely adopted in Europe and altogether in 28 countries around the world within 10 years of its introduction (World DAB 2005). But even in those countries where DAB was implemented, the adoption rate of the new radio system was low:consumers were not interested in buying new, rather expensive digital receivers as eagerly as expected and the early phase of the classic S-shaped diffusion curve (Rogers 2003) was much less steep than anticipated. Despite the promises of new features, more choice and better (CDquality) sound, the benefits of DAB radio over FM radio were not obvious to everybody (Lax 2003).The basic design of DAB fits better together with large, nationwide broadcasting systems and it has been more successful in countries with strong public service radio organizations (Rudin 1999;Hendy 2000). However, this has not always been the case. According to our studies of the development of digital radio in Europe and Canada, the varied success of DAB has been highly dependent on different policy decisions made by national governments and broadcasters. It seems that where the government and the public service broadcaster have both The Future of Radio is Still Digital 2 been committed to DAB, as in the UK and Denmark, it has been possible also to pull the commercial radio sector in with economic incentives or regulation -or both. Only in these conditions has the consumer interest in DAB radio developed favourably. This is why ...

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Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio

Cited by 192 publications

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Balancing personal trauma, storytelling and journalistic ethics: a critical analysis of Kirsti Melville's The Storm

Balancing personal trauma, storytelling and journalistic ethics: a critical analysis of Kirsti Melville's The Storm

Podcasts Go Platinum!

The Future of Radio is Still Digital—But Which One? Expert Perspectives and Future Scenarios for Radio Media in 2015

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