Looking for inspiration or models? Try these podcast collections.
eBook
Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community.
Main Collection
Call Number: 070.57973 M514s 2019
Comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way.
Main Collection
Call Number: 070.43 K39s 2008
A guide to radio journalism and production, and features information, anecdotes, and advice from National Public Radio journalists, and covers ethics, writing for broadcast, field producing, reading on the air, program editing, studio directing, and other related topics
Main Collection and eBook
Call Number: 907.2 Y83r 2005
A comprehensive guide to oral history for researchers and students in diverse fields including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods.
eBook
This book is the definitive guide to Audacity, the powerful, free, cross-platform audio editor that transforms any Windows, Mac, or Linux computer into a powerful recording studio.
Use the tools on this page to help you create, edit, and share audio recordings.
You can create audio recordings of interviews, conversations, debates, soundscapes, narration, and more.
Check out these amazing audio projects to get a sense of the power of this medium.
Founded in 1993 in Berkeley during a period of heightened youth violence and homicide, Youth Radio was established as an outlet for Bay Area youth to process their experiences and provide an alternative perspective to the prevailing media dialogue. Youth Radio operates bureaus in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington, DC. You can listen to Youth Radio podcasts on NPR.
Here is one example: "Do Parents Really Know What Their Kids Are Eating?" (linked below)
StoryCorps is a traveling project to capture the American experience one story at a time.
The StoryCorps Help Center provides assistance to those looking to record their own oral histories including recording opportunities and technical help.
Oral History in the Digital Age connects you to the latest information on digital technologies pertaining to all phases of the oral history process.
The UW's Oral History website has a useful list of sites and books that provide information on how to do an oral history interview including techniques, equipment and transcribing interviews.
A weekly one–hour public affairs program providing information
This list represents just a few local or locally aired examples.
Did you know you can access Adobe Audition on the computers here on campus? Audtion is the audio editing software found in Adobe's Creative Cloud.
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Free, open-source, cross-platform audio software. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Sound Recorder (known as Voice Recorder in Windows 10) is an audio recording program included in most versions of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.
GarageBand is Apple's consumer-level audio editing application. This is a powerful application at any price, but this application is included free on all OS X Macs. With a little effort, you can create your own compositions using GarageBand, but it is exceptionally suited to creating very slick podcasts combining sound clips and voice recordings.
