Third Coast Pocket Conference

Behind many audio stories, there’s stacks of paper and documents full of text. Old interview transcripts that predate recording technology. Letters found in a box. Court records. Emails.In this session from the 2018 Third Coast Conference, John Delo...

What does it mean for a podcast or radio story to be “innovative” or “experimental”? Is it in the writing? The structure? The use of sound?At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, Andrew Leland and Michelle Macklem traced the roots of narrative audio fro...

Using found reels of an old wire recorder from the 1950's, interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi created her performance piece, "Say Something Bunny!" heralded by the New York Times as “forthrightly funny and briefly pornograph...

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce...No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this vis...

At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is...

At AIR's Bitchin' Pitchin' Panel, three producers each pitch directly to a panel of editors to give them a shot at selling their story, while everyone gets some insight into the process. Back for her second year as a stellar moderator is...

What are provocations? Imagine that you’re hashing out an issue you care deeply about in audio with a friend - except this time, it's live in front of a room of hundreds of people. Don’t be afraid to get shaken up.The 2018 Third Coast conferenc...

Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job...At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this se...

Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job...At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this se...

True crime podcasts are everywhere. But in 2018, we listened to one murder mystery series that stood out in extraordinary ways. It’s called Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo. We were so impressed by the work of journalist Connie Walker and her team th...