In season 2 of The Masterclass, Louisa Lim explores podcasting with some of the world's best podcasters.  In this episode, Marc Fennell, the creator and host of the smash hit podcast Stuff the British Stole, gives a masterclass in how to tell complicated stories in a way that people can understand. 


Louisa Lim teaches Audio Journalism and Podcasting at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advancing Journalism. She has been a journalist for more than two decades, working a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She co-hosts a podcast on China, The Little Red Podcast, which won the Australian Podcast Award's News and Current Affairs prize in 2018.  Her book, The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Find her on Twitter @limlouisa

Season 2 Episode 1: Marc Fennell on telling complicated stories

One word is all it takes to sum up the power of audio.   The same word kept popping up in my conversations with some of the best audio journalists in the world.  Find out what it is, and how to use it to harness the power of audio in this episode.

Masterclass Episode 1 

The Power of Audio; Learning Through Listening
One word is all it takes to sum up the power of audio.   The same word kept popping up in my conversations with some of the best audio journalists in the world.  Find out what it is, and how to use it to harness the power of audio in this episode. 

Show Notes

Host details:
Louisa Lim is an awardwinning radio journalist.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade, first for BBC and then for NPR.  She has written a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.   She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

More details on the other guests in forthcoming episodes

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living  team. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere. 

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne.   In this role she provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best program and has written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper, and in 2016 she wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Contact us on Twitter:  @limlouisa 

Stories 
Louisa Lim  	Protests, Self-Immolations A Sign of A Desperate Tibet
https://www.npr.org/2012/02/21/147170229/protests-self-immolation-signs-of-a-desperate-tibet
Louisa Lim   	On Tibetan Plateau  A Constant Sense of Surveillance (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147256506/on-tibetan-plateau-a-sense-of-constant-surveillance
Louisa Lim 	Ancient Mongolian Competition Ties Past to Present (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2009/09/11/112514153/ancient-mongolian-competition-ties-past-to-present
Louisa Lim 	North Korea Greets its Next Leader (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130469051
Louisa Lim 	China’s Migrant Wage Battle (BBC) 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3413895.stm
Louisa Lim 	Love Songs Capture Ancient Ritual in New China (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7502196
Louisa Lim 	Belly Dancing for the Dead;  A Day With China’s Top Mourner (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2013/06/26/195565696/belly-dancing-for-the-dead-a-day-with-chinas-top-mourner
Robert Smith 	Countdown Begins As Planet Money’s Satellite Gets Placed On Rocket (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582513401/countdown-begins-as-planet-moneys-satellite-gets-placed-on-rocket

Season 1 Episode 1: Power of Audio

Masterclass Episode 2

Finding a Story and Turning It Into Radio

In the words of the British comedy figure Alan Partridge, dead air is a crime.  But how to go about finding sparkling interviewees to bring your pieces to life?   In this episode, Mike Innes, an output editor for BBC World Service’s daily news programme, Newshour, talks through how to find the right guests to bring the airwaves alive. 

Show Notes

Mike Innes is a Senior Broadcast Journalist at the BBC World Service.  He has been a radio journalist for 15 years, and for the last six he has been an output editor for the BBC World Service’s Newshour.   As a field producer, he reported and field produced from the US, South Sudan, China and many other countries.  
@mikeinnes76

BBC World Service Newshour 20.11.17 as featured on programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1gp9nynhq
Dan Patrick on Newshour 5.1.16
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dnws1
BBC World Service Newshour 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dnws1
Mike Innes and Tim Franks in Florida
https://www.facebook.com/907news/videos/10153745868025876/

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade, first for BBC and then for NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.   She co-hosts a nerdy podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne
@louisalim

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living team. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne.  In this role she provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best program and has written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper, and in 2016 she wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 2:  Mike Innes on Finding a Story and Turning It Into Radio

Masterclass Episode 3:  Interviewing
Interviewing is like playing chess; you need to predict two moves ahead and have your figurative pieces in play ready to meet your interviewee there.   In this episode, the award-winning journalist Hamish Macdonald talks through the art of the interview, and the importance of holding people in power to account.  

Show notes 
Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning Australian broadcaster and foreign correspondent.   He sometimes presents ABC Radio National’s Breakfast show, as well as hosts Channel Ten’s The Project.  He has also worked at Al Jazeera, ABC America and the UK’s Channel Four. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2016, and won the RTS Young Journalist of the Year in 2008.
@hamishnews

Michael Wolff dismisses ‘silly’ criticisms of Fire and Fury in Heated Interview (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/michael-wolff-says-criticisms-of-trump-book-fire-and-fury-silly/9319852
Pray for us; Aleppo is really ‘hell… A firsthand account of life in Syria (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/dr-farida-almouslem/7837880
Christopher Pyne calls for Sam Dastyari to be Sacked (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/christopher-pyne-calls-for-sam-dastyari-to-be/7813634
Sam Dastyari Donations Scandal; Christopher Pyne Backtracks from Breach Claim (SMH)
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sam-dastyari-chinese-donations-scandal-christopher-pyne-backtracks-from-breach-claim-20160905-gr8p4y.html
The Truth is (Channel 10) 
https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-truth-is/2013/6/3

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 3: Hamish Macdonald on The Art of the Interview

Masterclass Episode 4:  Finding Your Voice

In audio journalism, you need to sound like yourself plus 10%.  But what does that even mean?  In this episode, voice coach Elspeth Morrison breaks down how to find your radio voice and use it appropriately. 

Show notes 
Elspeth Morrison a voice coach who has worked with journalists for almost twenty years.  She has trained many BBC journalists, as well as training actors in her other job as an accent coach. 
@elspeth27

A Guide to Northern English Accents (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1RpWFqs6CR94G8DqKNVKGrQ/a-guide-to-northern-english-accents

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 4: Elspeth Morrison on Finding your Radio Voice

Masterclass Episode 5: Recording in the Field

Use your mic like a camera, zooming in and out to getting aural close-ups and wide shots to build texture to your pieces.  In this episode, the BBC’s Africa producer Becky Lipscombe talks through how to report in the field including what to take out with you and how to get the sound you need. 

Show notes 
Becky Lipscombe’s Soundcloud page
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip
Robert Mugabe Resigns (BBC Newshour)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1h1kz89l2
Zimbabwe; The People Have Spoken
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/zimbabwe-the-people-have-spoken
Sierra Leone; The Ebola Orphans
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/sierra-leone-the-ebola-orphans

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 5: Becky Lipscombe on Recording in the Field

Masterclass Episode 6: The Art of Radio Packages

Learn how to fantasize your ideal piece into reality, as well as how to become an audio hunter who knows exactly what they want and how to get it.   In this episode, NPR's Robert Smith decodes the structure of a radio news package, talking through the tricks of the trade, and how to do it all on a tight deadline.

Show notes: 
Robert Smith’s Twitter - @radiosmith

Harlem Says Its Farewell to James Brown
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692842

Episode 788: Robert And Kenny Go To The Fair
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/11/542893444/episode-778-robert-and-kenny-go-to-the-fair 
 
Countdown Begins as Planet Money's Satellite Gets Placed on Rocket
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582513401/countdown-begins-as-planet-moneys-satellite-gets-placed-on-rocket

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood

Host details: 
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 6: Robert Smith on The Art of Radio Packages

Masterclass Episode 7: Writing for Radio

One of the biggest secrets to writing for radio is not writing for radio, but letting your sound and your interviewees do some of the work.   In this episode, Natasha Mitchell of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Radio National walks us through how to show, not always tell, for radio.

Show notes 
Natasha Mitchell's Twitter @natashamitchell
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/natasha-mitchell/2914164

Eugenics, Power and Privilege; Why America had a Nazi Problem Before Charlottesville (Science Friction)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/eugenics-history-us-had-nazi-problem-before-charlottesville/8883074

Calling all Carnivores and Vegetarians; Would You Eat Meat Grown in a Lab? (Science Friction)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/would-you-eat-in-vitro-meat-grown-in-a-lab/9185470

The Secret Life of Children (Earshot) 
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-secret-life-of-children/7936046

The Secrets Inside Your Cells; Epigenetics, Trauma and Ancestry (Science Friction) 
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/the-secrets-inside-your-cells/9237992

Recorded at Studio 757, External Relations, University of Melbourne

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 7: Natasha Mitchell on Writing for Radio

Sound and silence are the tools of an audio journalist, and their uses – as emphasis, as illustration, as explication or as a chapter break – are manifold.   In this episode, the BBC’s Neal Razzell talks through how to make your pieces sing, and how to go one step further with sound. 

Show notes 
Neal Razzell 's Twitter - @NealRazzell 

Spain’s Battle for the Bull (Documentary Podcast, BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zrkw

Last Call From Aleppo (Crossing Continents, Radio 4, BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd778

Audiograph: The Sound of the Brexit Pound
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043px57

Audiograph: The Sound of Climate Change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043pryr

Audiograph: The Sound of Mexican Migration to the US
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dyfg9

Audiograph: Falling Infant Mortality Rates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0418j8v

Opposing Obama (BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100128_opposing_obama_part_1.shtml

Podcast series: The Assassination (BBC World Service)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads

Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 8: Neal Razzell on Using Sound

Masterclass Episode 7: Steve Inskeep on Going Live
Going live is one of the trickiest skills for any audio journalist to master.  In this episode, NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep draws on his decades behind the mike to outline some of his top strategies for going live. 

Show notes 
@nprinskeep

Morning Edition
https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/

To Escape Civil War, Many Yemenis Flee to Djibouti
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839290/to-escape-civil-war-many-yemenis-flee-to-dijibouti

Yemeni Refugees Cross Gulf of Aden to Seek Safety in East Africa
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967396/yemeni-refugees-cross-gulf-of-aden-to-seek-safety-in-east-africa

Why Yemen’s War Mostly Remains Out of News Headlines
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839325/why-yemens-war-remains-mostly-out-of-news-headlines

US Fast Tracks Missile Defence System to East Asia, Drawing China’s Ire
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/09/519369095/u-s-fast-tracks-missile-defense-system-to-s-korea-drawing-chinas-ire

Insurgents in Nigeria Release Most of the Girls Abducted Last Month
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791356/insurgents-in-nigeria-release-most-of-101-schoolgirls-abducted-last-month

Major Breaks in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177928415/major-breaks-in-boston-marathon-bombing-case

Host details:  
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades.  She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of Starting Somewhere a new podcast from the University of Melbourne.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

PHOTO: Aspeninstitute-Internal- https://www.flickr.com/photos/60463478@N08/

Season 1 Episode 9: Steve Inskeep on Going Live

Masterclass Episode 10: Lyse Doucet on Journalism in Hostile Environments

The job of a journalist is to tell the stories of our time.  In this episode, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet talks through the challenges facing today's journalists from the conflict frontlines to the increasing hostility to the mainstream media. 

Show notes

@bbclysedoucet

The Real Story, What is Fuelling The War in Yemen (BBC World Service) 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswx1l
Lyse Doucet Reunites With Refugee Family in Canada (BBC)

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37412117/lyse-doucet-reunites-with-syrian-refugee-family-in-canada

Syria in the Wake of US-led Missile Strikes (BBC Newshour)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w252dqg20mt
Syria: The World's War (BBC Two)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b227d8

Inside Yemen: Three Years of War
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct553w

Host details: 
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of Starting Somewhere a new podcast from the University of Melbourne.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 10: Lyse Doucet on Journalism in Hostile Environments

You have to love and idea and a topic so much that you want to live it, breath it, eat it and marry it.  That’s the advice that Radiotopia’s Julie Shapiro gives for anyone who wants to get into podcasting.




Show notes 
@jatomic
http://www.julieshapiro.org/who/
Radiotopia
https://www.radiotopia.fm/
Ear Hustle
https://www.earhustlesq.com/
Millennial
http://www.millennialpodcast.org/
99% Invisible
https://99percentinvisible.org/


Host details:  
Louisa Lim is an awardwinning journalist and podcaster.   She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  The podcast she co-hosts, The Little Red Podcast, has just won News and Current Affairs podcast of the year in the Australian Podcast Awards.  She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an awardwinning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme.  Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living.  She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.  She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop.  Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald.   She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 11: Julie Shapiro on Podcasting

The smartphone has changed audience interaction forever, and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self is a trailblazer in audience engagement. She talks through extreme engagement, and how she managed to get listeners not just to call in, but to change their lifestyles.

Show notes
@manoushz
Note to Self
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Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreigncorrespondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a bookcalled The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on
China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a
weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 12: Manoush Zomorodi on Engagement and Audience Interaction

Louisa Lim moderated a lively discussion between Natasha Mitchell, host of the ABC's Science Friction and Robert Smith from Planet Money on NPR. They tackled topics such as their individual approaches to a story, how podcasts are pushing the boundaries of narrative story telling and how much of yourself should you insert into a story?

Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreigncorrespondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a bookcalled The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on
China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a
weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 13: Pod Save Radio- How Podcasting is Transforming the Audio Sphere

Louisa Lim explores the booming phenomenon of podcasts with investigative journalist Richard Baker and the ABC’s Rachael Brown.
They explore what makes this genre so compelling to audiences, and what does it tell us about ourselves and how far can you push the the story telling.

Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named anEconomist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on
China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a
weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at the Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

Season 1 Episode 14: A Matter of Life and Death; True Crime Podcasts

Learning Through Listening: Lessons in audio from some of the best audio journalists in the world, hosted by Louisa Lim. 

Louisa Lim teaches Audio Journalism and Podcasting at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advancing Journalism. She has been a journalist for more than two decades, working a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR.  She co-hosts a podcast on China, the Little Red Podcast, which won the Australian Podcast Award's News and Current Affairs prize in 2018.  Her book, The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. 

Find her on Twitter: @limlouisa

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