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Two questions I am always asked about audio production:

1. Does recording audio interfere with reporting?
2. How long does it take?

First, a bit about my background. I started helping with audio podcasts at my last paper. I didn’t actually edit anything down, rather, I marked the clips I wanted and sent it to a Web editor, who then cut the clips out for me and sent it on to a special projects editor (who then collected it all into a podcast).

So technically, I never edited audio for any newspaper. I have, however, taken it upon myself to learn Audacity (a simple audio editor) on my own. After learning Audacity, I produced some podcasts for a video game fan site I visit (which I won’t post here, but everyone seemed happy with the quality).

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For a bit more than a year I’ve been obsessively tracking the movements in the Online reporting world. I consider myself a storyteller first and foremost, and I will do whatever I can do to help tell that story in the best possible way. That means using other technologies than just the printed word.

I’ve always been a gadget geek: I have owned my own digital recorder for nearly two years (and am considering an upgrade), a microphone (thinking of buying another two and a splitter), computer programs and other tools to help me learn, on my own, more about Online reporting.

But for those who are not tech-saavy, please read this great post by Mindy McAdams: First lesson in audio for journalists. This is a great summation of what you need to do to start collecting audio.

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