The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
https://transom.org/topics/sound-school/
This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
Yowei Shaw amassed 325 pages of transcripts for her This American Life story on Eritrean hostages and the reporter who uncovered the story. And that was just the beginning of Yowei's long, grueling production process assembling the story.