NEW AT TRANSOM.ORG a showcase & workshop for new public radio http://www.transom.org August 20, 2001 NEW GUEST NUBAR ALEXANIAN Okay, he's a photojournalist, but trust me, you'll learn something. Read his postings on documentary photography... and ponder narrative, point of view, authorship, revelation of character, ethics, creative spirit, interpreting life. Useful stuff for radio. Ask him about truth in journalism... or what digital camera to buy. NEW TOOLS COLUMN Our Tools Editor Jeff Towne says: "Enough theory, this time we DO something, from beginning to end. This column tracks every step of a very simple production: the thirty-second promo. We load in narration and background music, edit, mix and output it as a finished promo." Check this one out. Graphics for Dumbbells. ProTools Free Unbound. INTERNET CONTENT RICHNESS BEYOND IMAGINING Hear the new Transom piece from two young first-time producers in Seattle about homeless kids and their dogs. Join our PRPD Internet session planning discussion. Read downloadable PDFs of essays from Studs Terkel, Sara Vowell,Tony Kahn, et. al. For all this and more, just go to our home page: http://transom.org. All the links are there. Drop in any time... Jay Allison Woods Hole, Mass.

More stuff. all recommended... naturally. Read the Corwin quote below in light of modern radio programming practise. =============================== TRANSOM.ORG a showcase & workshop for new public radio http://www.transom.org November 29, 2001 * NEW TOOLS - Voice Editing in ProTools * Tools Editor Jeff Towne makes everything seem so clear. If you cut voice tracks with ProTools, come read Jeff's new column. I guarantee you'll pick up a good trick or two. Plus, you get to ask questions. Find a better deal for free, I dare you. * TRANSOM TALK - The Radio Rookies * The Radio Rookies of WNYC are hanging out in the Transom Discussion boards talking about their work. Listen up. "...What I like about radio. I like the fact that for 6 minutes, or for however long your story is, you are YOU, and your listeners and THEM, and for that very moment YOU become THEM, and they become YOU, for 6 minutes you feel like a GOD." --Radio Rookie, Judith Rudge, The Bronx. * SPECIAL GUEST - Norman Corwin * Read and listen to his interview with Tony Kahn (see excerpt below) and then ask the Radio Bard of World War II for his advice. He's taking all our questions. Last call. "At what stage is radio in its life now? Do you see it retiring to Florida and watching TV till someone pulls the plug?" --Jake Warga * BENEFIT - WTC Photograph * For our "Days That Follow" section, Transom Special Guest and documentary photographer Nubar Alexanian has donated his remarkable downloadable, printable photo of the World Trade Center which many have requested. Nubar, in turn, requests a donation to the September 11th Fund for Joel Meyerowitz's photographic documentation of Ground Zero, a project which Transom.org and the Open Studio Project will be documenting in audio. * UPDATE � The Radio Exchange * Atlantic Public Media and the Station Resource Group are refining this darn good idea that could dramatically enhance the production/distribution relationships in public radio. Come read more at http://www.radioexchange.org and discuss the idea in the Transom Talk boards. Drop in any time. - Jay Allison Woods Hole, Mass http://www.transom.org ======================== At no time did they say, "Well, tell us what your approach will be. Tell us who you'll cast. Tell us what the budget will be. Let us see the first twenty minutes of it." The first they heard of that program was when it was broadcast. Now what network, or even large independent station, would operate that way today? There would be a committee. There would be five or six officials, looking it over, and editors, and a program managers, and the marketing managers to make sure there would be nothing that would lose any listeners. --Norman Corwin, speaking about "On a Note of Triumph" produced for CBS in 1945 =========================