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.

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