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.

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.

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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.

Learning Through Listening: Lessons in audio from some of the best audio journalists in the world, hosted by Louisa Lim from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

Learning Through Listening: Lessons in audio from some of the best audio journalists in the world, hosted by Louisa Lim from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

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Learning through listening: Lessons in journalism from some of Australia's best reporters, hosted by Louisa Lim from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne

Learning through listening: Lessons in journalism from some of Australia's best reporters, hosted by Louisa Lim from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne

Masterclass Episode 5: Recording in the Field

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