ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS, AUDIO EDITION – 09/05/19

Music in the podcast provided by:  https://filmmusic.io
“The Builder” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

by Bob Tinsley

PAY ATTENTION!

Why should you be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why. read article

Jill Olmsted’s ‘Tools for Podcasting’

Here we go, everybody. The Tools for Podcasting site (it’s really just a page with one terrific link) has everything we all need to produce professional sounding podcasts, including – yay! – fiction podcasting AKA audio fiction, audio series, et al.

Yeppers, kids, we here at TVWriter™ are Big Believers in free, unfettered, ungatekeepered, single-handed creation, and the contents of this site, Jill Olmsted’s Tools for Podcasting book, certainly appears to be absolutely free.

Big thanks to the School of Communication, American University, for the most helpful freebie this TVWriter™ minion has seen in a lo-ong time. read article

What’s New in Podcasting – August 29, 2019

Podcasting, whether it be professional, personal, fictional, news, you-name-it, is finally coming into its own, and TVWriter™ is going to try like the proverbial sonofabitch to report on it regulary. Here are some of the week’s most important developments.

EDITOR’S TRANSLATION: In other words, these are the articles that surprised and impressed us podcasting/audio drama/audio comedy newbies. We definitely think they’re worth checking out. read article

“Podcasting” News – Part 4

Ah, what the hell. Here’s one more for the road.

Yeah, this article’s back to calling what’s being done podcasts, but a rose by any other name, yeah?

Have another look: read article

“Podcasting” News – Part 3

This article is all about “conversational audio stories.” AKA “voice-enabled storytelling.”

Well, at least it isn’t talking about so-called podcasts.

Have a look: read article