vpm + ICA MEDIA CENTER PRESENTS
Scripting Your Podcast with Leah Sottile and Chioke I'Anson
What are the elements of a great podcast script, and how can you make the writing and research processes work for you? Freelance journalist and podcast host Leah Sottile shares best practices for scripting your podcast during this virtual session presented by the VPM + ICA Community Media Center.
about the presenter
Leah Sottile
Leah Sottile is a freelance journalist whose features, profiles, investigations and essays have been featured by the Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Atlantic and High Country News, where she is a correspondent. She is the host of the podcast Two Minutes Past Nine, produced with BBC Radio 4, and the National Magazine Award-nominated series Bundyville, made in collaboration with Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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/.
