The Masterclass Podcast

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 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.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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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

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