Radio Workshop

Using computers to edit sound! After you’ve done your interviews and made your recordings, learn how to cut them down to size and fit them together into one seamless piece of audio. This workshop will introduce the basics of Audacity, a free, open source audio editing program.

This training workshop gives you the skills to be a community news reporter. How do you uncover the news? How do you know if a story is important? How do you produce a radio news story – quickly and accurately? Workshop participants learn the craft and technique of radio journalism by researching, producing and editing short news or feature stories about West Philadelphia for broadcast on WPEB 88.1 FM . The workshop culminates in a live radio broadcast on WPEB featuring news reports produced by workshop participants.

Using computers to edit sound! After you’ve done your interviews and made your recordings, learn how to cut them down to size and fit them together into one seamless piece of audio. This workshop will be a hands-on tutorial on using Audacity, a free, open source audio editing program.

Do you have an idea for a short radio documentary about a person, place or happening in West Philadelphia?

Character, plot, story, description, soundscape, dialogue, these and more are the elements that combine in the author controlled medium of dramatic radio. This radio scriptwriting workshop will guide workshop participants through the process of creating short radio plays for WPEB. Participants should come to this workshop with a story idea on a topic or issue relevant to their community, and be prepared to get dramatic!

This training workshop will give you the skills to be a community news reporter. How do you uncover the news? How do you know if a story is important? How do you produce a radio news story – quickly and accurately? Workshop participants will learn the craft and technique of radio journalism by researching, producing and editing short news or feature stories about West Philadelphia for broadcast on WPEB.

Using computers to edit sound! After you’ve done your interviews and made your recordings, learn how to cut them down to size and fit them together into one seamless piece of audio. This workshop will be a hands-on tutorial on using Audacity, a free, open source audio editing program.

Character, plot, story, description, soundscape, dialogue, these and more are the elements that combine in the author controlled medium of dramatic radio. This radio scriptwriting workshop will guide workshop participants through the process of creating short radio plays for WPEB. Participants should come to this workshop with a story idea on a topic or issue relevant to their community, and be prepared to get dramatic!

Do you have an idea for a short radio documentary about a person, place or happening in West Philadelphia?