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Personal Interviews for Narrative Audio with the Inheriting team
Inheriting host Emily Kwong and senior producer Anjuli Sastry Krbechek share excerpts from the show and provide insights into their production and editorial processes. You’ll learn about their process for navigating personal interviews with families and weaving hours of recorded conversations into narrative audio stories.
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Key Takeaways
- Process for interviewing for narrative long form podcasts
- Organizing a workflow for multiple interviews and developing trust with sources when it comes to talking about difficult things
- Develop a strategy for trauma-informed reporting and interviews
Who is this presentation for?
Beginner, intermediate, advanced audio producers and creators who are pursuing narrative interviewing and longform podcast production.
Meet the Guest
Anjuli Sastry Krbechek
Anjuli Sastry Krbechek (she/her) is a senior producer at LAist Studios. She co-created Inheriting, the LAist Studios and NPR podcast telling the stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander families. Before that, she oversaw the teams behind the Snooze and WILD podcasts. In 2021, Krbechek created, hosted and executive produced the audio and video series Where We Come From, which told stories by and for immigrant communities of color. She did this while on a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard. She has been awarded for her audio work by the Los Angeles Press Club and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Her other work has appeared in NPR’s Life Kit, Morning Edition, Weekend All Things Considered, and ABC News. Krbechek also co-founded an employee-run identity-based mentorship program at NPR.
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Meet the Guest
Emily Kwong
Emily Kwong (she/her) is the founding reporter and now co-host for Short Wave, NPR's science podcast.
Before joining NPR, Kwong was a reporter and host at KCAW-Sitka, a community radio station in Sitka, Alaska. She covered local government and community news, chasing stories onto fishing boats and up volcanoes. Her work earned multiple awards from the Alaska Press Club and Alaska Broadcasters Association. Prior to that, Kwong taught and produced youth media with WNYC's Radio Rookies and The Modern Story in Hyderabad, India.
Kwong won the "Best New Artist" award in 2013 from the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition for a story about a Maine journalist learning to speak with an electrolarynx. She was NPR's 2018 Above the Fray Fellow and reported a three-part series on climate change and internal migration in Mongolia. Her team's multimedia narrative, "Losing the Eternal Blue Sky," won a White House News Photographers Association award in 2020.
Kwong's reporting style is driven by empathy and context — a desire to slow down and spend time. There is a sense of people being real people, and of their lives continuing on after the story ends. She is proud to have interviewed both of her parents, shining a light on mental health for StoryCorps with her mom and heritage languages for NPR's "Where We Come From" series with her dad.
Kwong takes great pride in co-leading NPR AZNs, the employee resource group for (ERG) that supports over 100 staff members who identify as Asian, Asian-American, and/or Pacific Islander. Kwong is also co-president of the board for the Association for Independents in Radio (AIR) and was a 2015 AIR New Voices scholar. She learned the finer points of cutting tape at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2013.
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About this webinar
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Friday, November 15, 2024
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11am - 12pm PT / 2-3pm ET
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60 min
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Free
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This webinar is recorded and made available on the class page after the presentation.
Inheriting is LAist Studios and NPR’s narrative podcast that tells the stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander families. On this show, the past is personal. Through intimate conversations facilitated by host Emily Kwong, the podcast brings to light the diverse and rich histories within AAPI communities. You will hear life-changing historical moments from seven families from Cambodia, Guam, Japan, India, Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
In this workshop, host Emily Kwong and senior producer Anjuli Sastry Krbechek will share audio clips from Inheriting and provide insights into their production and editorial processes. You will learn about their process for navigating personal interviews with families and weaving hours of recorded conversations into narrative audio stories.
