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Barbara McCann - Journalist and Broadcaster
Barbara McCann has been a journalist in radio, television and print since the late 1970s.
In this edition of âPodcasting for ⦠(communities, journalism students, anyone interested)â, we talk about interviewing and writing for radio (and podcasts).
Along with reading, writing, recording and editing, Interviewing is one of the key skills for podcast and radio production. I write about them all in the book Podcasting for Communities.
I also wanted Barbara to share some tips on writing for radio. She told me about the first big lesson she learned. âOn my very first day back in Downtown Radio, the great Harry Castles handed me a press release and said âWrite that up for me.â So, I spent about an hour writing five or six hundred words. This was for radio.â She laughed at the memory.
âHarry took it, God bless him, and sat down at the type writer â as it was then â and he wrote two lines. And I thought âOh my Lord, he has told the whole story in a couple of lines.â And I learned from him, economy of words, especially for radio, is to have a couple of lines to get over the main story. Itâs the main points. And thatâs how I regard writing anything for radio or television. Just tell the story in one or two lines.â
As a final thought, Barbara added, âAlso with no âbig wordsâ, as we call them. Your listener would be trying t work out what that big word means and miss the whole gist of the story.â
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The Project:
"Podcasting for Communities" is a guide to help you and your team learn about podcast and community radio production.It is written by Davy Sims a 40 year veteran of BBC, radio, and web production. The book is available for Kindle from Amazon. Combined with these podcasts and this blog, it is a simple introduction to production and is equally relevant to community radio broadcasters, producers and managers. Read more about it here on this blog.
Download and subscribe to the podcast:
iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn and Libsyn
Music: The music used in this podcast episode is Cloudline from the Blue Dot Sessionsâ Album K4. Find it on the Free Music Archive. Downhill Racer by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
You can listen to the track in full here.
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By Davy SimsBarbara McCann has been a journalist in radio, television and print since the late 1970s.
In this edition of âPodcasting for ⦠(communities, journalism students, anyone interested)â, we talk about interviewing and writing for radio (and podcasts).
Along with reading, writing, recording and editing, Interviewing is one of the key skills for podcast and radio production. I write about them all in the book Podcasting for Communities.
I also wanted Barbara to share some tips on writing for radio. She told me about the first big lesson she learned. âOn my very first day back in Downtown Radio, the great Harry Castles handed me a press release and said âWrite that up for me.â So, I spent about an hour writing five or six hundred words. This was for radio.â She laughed at the memory.
âHarry took it, God bless him, and sat down at the type writer â as it was then â and he wrote two lines. And I thought âOh my Lord, he has told the whole story in a couple of lines.â And I learned from him, economy of words, especially for radio, is to have a couple of lines to get over the main story. Itâs the main points. And thatâs how I regard writing anything for radio or television. Just tell the story in one or two lines.â
As a final thought, Barbara added, âAlso with no âbig wordsâ, as we call them. Your listener would be trying t work out what that big word means and miss the whole gist of the story.â
___________________
The Project:
"Podcasting for Communities" is a guide to help you and your team learn about podcast and community radio production.It is written by Davy Sims a 40 year veteran of BBC, radio, and web production. The book is available for Kindle from Amazon. Combined with these podcasts and this blog, it is a simple introduction to production and is equally relevant to community radio broadcasters, producers and managers. Read more about it here on this blog.
Download and subscribe to the podcast:
iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn and Libsyn
Music: The music used in this podcast episode is Cloudline from the Blue Dot Sessionsâ Album K4. Find it on the Free Music Archive. Downhill Racer by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
You can listen to the track in full here.