RECORDED WEBINAR -Thursday, October 10, 11am-12pm PT/  2-3pm ET

How WHYY Makes the Peak Travel Podcast

Peak Travel is a new podcast from WHYY about how tourism shapes the world. But how does Philadelphia’s member station create a travel show on a public media budget? We demonstrate how to make sound-rich travel podcast without leaving Philadelphia. 

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Key Takeaways

  • It takes a village - and organization
  • Centering local storytellers avoids ‘parachute journalism’ but also just plain makes for better audio
  • Longform pods are expensive so you have to be creative

About this webinar

  • Thursday, October 10, 2024
  • 11am-12pm PT / 2-3pm ET
  • 60 min
  • Free for AIR members / 
    $25 non-members
  • This webinar is recorded and made available for AIR members and ticket holders after the recording. 
Every episode of Peak Travel relies on the work of producers, hosts, sound designers and voice actors all around the world. A travel show is notoriously expensive to make, so we created a format that lets us center local voices and get rich, on-location sound via a network of stringers and dozens of Zoom meetings.

Who is this webinar for? 

This is for intermediate and advanced podcast producers with some knowledge of the public radio ecosystem and experience gathering field audio. 
Meet the PRESENTER

Tom Grahsler

Philadelphia native Tom Grahsler is the Director of Digital Studios at WHYY, overseeing video and podcasts for Philadelphia’s public media station. 

He has almost two decades of experience in media production, earning credits at Discovery, National Geographic, Vice, Time Inc, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Sports Illustrated, The Points Guy, and DotDash, to name a few. His work has appeared in campaigns with Chase, Capital One, Marriott, Hilton, American Express, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Sesame Workshop, Unilever and much more. His feature documentary Welcome to Deathfest premiered at Maryland Film Festival in 2013. 
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Michael Olcott, Sr. Producer

Michael Olcott is an award-winning producer of narrative podcasts, documentary films, and short-form video. Before joining WHYY’s Digital Studios, he co-produced Into the Depths, National Geographic’s first ever narrative podcast. He also led their video team, writing and producing short films that have garnered more than 50 million views on Youtube alone. Whether he’s collecting natural sound on a dive boat in Costa Rica, directing a crew in the Arabian desert, or researching gene-editing for a long-form documentary, Michael’s experience follows his passions – encompassing a diverse set of subjects including conservation, popular culture and social change.
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Michaela Winburg, Producer

Michaela Winberg is a producer for the new WHYY and PRX show Peak Travel. She has also produced other local and national shows like Art Outside, Schooled, and The Statue. Michaela investigated the rise and fall of LGBTQ+ Pride organizations around the country and created the original limited-series podcast about it called March On: The Fight for Pride. Before that, Michaela was a general assignment reporter at Billy Penn. She graduated with her journalism degree from Temple University in 2018, where she was editor-in-chief of The Temple News. In her free time, she's almost certainly watching reality TV, rock climbing, or walking around South Philly saying "go birds" to strangers!
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