1. PODCASTING FOR ACADEMICS
January 25, 2017
Yelena Kalinsky
Associate Director for Research & Publications
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
Old Horticulture, Suite 141H
(517)

2. What podcasts do you listen to the most? What do you like about them?
Do you listen to any academic podcasts? What brings you to listen to them?
If you were to start a podcast, what would it be about and what format would it be?

3. What is a podcast?

4. What is a podcast?
Digital audio delivered to listeners via RSS

5. What makes a good podcast?

6. What makes a good podcast?
Audio quality
Idea
Host personality
Production quality
Consistency
???

7. Trade-offs In-depth topics Experimentation Ease of distribution
Too niche to sustain an audience
Market saturation vs

8. Podcasting is not a casual activity...

9. Collaborate
The Kitchen Sisters

10. Start or join a podcasting collective!
New Books Network
H-Net’s Academic Hustle
??? ?

11. How to launch a podcast
Idea
Recording
Editing
Distribution
Publicity

12. Recording

13. Recording
Microphone: USB (ex. Yeti) or analog

14. Recording Microphone: USB (ex. Yeti) or analog
Portable XLR recorder (optional, for field recordings and/or use with analog mic)

15. Recording Microphone: USB (ex. Yeti) or analog
Portable XLR recorder (optional, for field recordings and/or use with analog mic)
Audio interface (optional, for use with analog mics)

16. Recording Microphone: USB (ex. Yeti) or analog
Portable XLR recorder (optional, for field recordings and/or use with analog mic)
Audio interface (optional, for use with analog mics)
Computer with USB and audio-in jack

17. Recording Microphone: USB (ex. Yeti) or analog
Portable XLR recorder (optional, for field recordings and/or use with analog mic)
Audio interface (optional, for use with analog mics)
Computer with USB and audio-in jack
Headphones (“studio” or “monitor”)

18. Recording Best Practices

19. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed

20. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed
Check/adjust levels before you start

21. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed
Check/adjust levels before you start
Record 5 seconds of neutral silence

22. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed
Check/adjust levels before you start
Record 5 seconds of neutral silence
Use a pop guard

23. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed
Check/adjust levels before you start
Record 5 seconds of neutral silence
Use a pop guard
Record in uncompressed WAV format

24. Recording Best Practices
Record in a quiet, insulated room to avoid echo, noise bleed
Check/adjust levels before you start
Record 5 seconds of neutral silence
Use a pop guard
Record in uncompressed WAV format
Don’t let sound concerns keep you from starting!

25. transom.org

26. Technical Best Practices

27. Technical Best Practices

28. What are some academic podcasts?
What makes something an academic podcast?

29. How do people listen to podcasts?
How do podcasts get to listeners?

31. Hosting + Audience development

32. 3. What can academics bring to podcasting?

33. Podcasting resources:
Resources, community, hosting
H-Podcast network (networks.h-net.org/h-podcast)
Tools & Tutorials
- reporting, storytelling, tools
Transom’s Podcasting Basics series
Knight Center Introduction to Podcasting MOOC (journalismcourses.org)
Lifehacker “How to Start Your Own Podcast”
This American Life Make Radio page

34. Podcasting resources:
Music
Free Music Archive
Hosting
H-Net
Soundcloud
Libsyn
News
Nieman Lab at Harvard
Poynter Institute
HotPod Newsletter