vpm + ICA MEDIA CENTER PRESENTS
Producing Your Podcast with Ramtin Arablouei and Chioke I'Anson
Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and co-producer of NPR’s hit podcast and radio show Throughline, discusses podcast production during this virtual session presented by the VPM + ICA Community Media Center.
Since launching in 2019 Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences, has emerged as one of the most popular history podcasts in the United States. The show reached number one on the Apple Podcast Charts and has been lauded in outlets like Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Time Magazine, and many others.
Since launching in 2019 Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences, has emerged as one of the most popular history podcasts in the United States. The show reached number one on the Apple Podcast Charts and has been lauded in outlets like Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Time Magazine, and many others.
about the presenter
Ramtin Arablouei
Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR's podcast Throughline, a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences.
Arablouei got his start at NPR in 2015 with a three-week contract to produce a pilot for How I Built This with Guy Raz, and now produces, reports, mixes, and writes music for such top-rated podcasts as TED Radio Hour, Hidden Brain, Embedded, Invisibilia, The Indicator, Code Switch, Radio Ambulante, and the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal.
A trained audio engineer, Arablouei spent most of his early twenties in recording studios. He contributed sound design and music for films and commercials, including the IMAX trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire. He's written music for many award-winning podcasts including Los Cassettes del Exilio (Radio Ambulante) and the "All Work. No Pay" episode of Reveal, which won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting.
Born in Iran, Arablouei emigrated to the U.S. with his family as a child. He graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and history.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Patrick Jones - Course author
ABOUT THE HOST
Dr. Chioke I’Anson
Dr. Chioke I’Anson is the Director of Community Media at the VPM + ICA Community Media Center (CMC), as well as a philosopher, podcaster, and professor of African American Studies at VCU. He has been engaged in audio for as long as he has been working in academia, an engagement that only deepened when he moved to Richmond. He has worked as a producer for BackStory with the American History Guys and the AIR Media Finding America Project UnMonumental. His podcast pilot, Do Over, made it to the top ten of Radiotopia’s Podquest and also secured entry into NPR’s first Annual Story Lab. Through this, I’Anson was hired as NPR’s national underwriting voice for digital downloads and newscasts, placing his voice among the most heard voices of NPR. Chioke is a committed teacher, eager to explore audio as a pedagogical tool for his students and members of the Richmond community through the CMC
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About VPM + ICA Community Media Center
There are too many barriers to putting important stories into the world. VPM and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU are challenging those barriers by launching the VPM + ICA Community Media Center – a recording studio and workspace that is free, and open to the public. The Community Media Center (CMC) is helmed by Dr. Chioke I’Anson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at VCU and underwriting announcer at NPR.
Whether you’re a student interested in media, a professional radio host, or simply a community member with something to say, the CMC is for you. Learn practical and profitable production skills from experts. Build community with other storytellers, and get your voice out in the world.
To learn more about the CMC, visit: https://icavcu.org/communitymedia/.
To learn more about the ICA at VCU, visit: https://icavcu.org/.
To learn more about VPM, visit: https://vpm.org/.
Whether you’re a student interested in media, a professional radio host, or simply a community member with something to say, the CMC is for you. Learn practical and profitable production skills from experts. Build community with other storytellers, and get your voice out in the world.
To learn more about the CMC, visit: https://icavcu.org/communitymedia/.
To learn more about the ICA at VCU, visit: https://icavcu.org/.
To learn more about VPM, visit: https://vpm.org/.
