Podcast Launch: Six Week Podcasting Intensive (POSTPONED)

***This event has been postponed. To keep up with the status of Coconino Center for the Arts’ Digital Resource Center workshops, visit https://www.ccaflagstaff.org/digital-center.***

In six sessions guided by a facilitator with 20 years of NPR journalism and podcast production experience, you’ll find a clear voice for your podcast within a storytelling framework. Through listening sessions, discussions, and hands-on tutorials, you will finish the course with a constructed podcast episode. Participants will give and receive feedback and support in a safe creative environment.

1. Introduction to podcasting, pitching, and focus sentences
2. Booking guests/storytellers, outlining, writing for the ear
3. Interviewing
4. Elements of story and structure
5. Putting it all together and finding your voice
6. Listening and feedback session

Workshops on Tuesday evenings, September 13th – October 18th.

About Laurel Morales: Laurel is currently producing her third podcast “2 Lives.” Prior to entering the podcast world she covered wildfires, drought, and other disasters as a public radio reporter for 20 years. She has won national awards for her reporting and writing including a national Edward R. Murrow award for her coverage of Arizona’s deadliest fire and a PRNDI award for her podcast “Earth + Bone.” She’s collaborated on several projects including the multi-award winning “Tracing the Migrant Journey” series. She can be heard on NPR, the Fronteras Desk, Code Switch, Here & Now, Science Friday, Marketplace, National Native News, and the BBC. She’s known for her inclusion of diverse voices, for crafting powerful stories, and for collaborating with a team to complete projects on time with humor, emotional intelligence, and constructive feedback.