Annenberg Radio News Spring 2011

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Annenberg Radio News produces newscasts on Tuesdays and Thursdays that air live at 4 pm. Applications are available on the ARN home page "Apply online" link.

Auditions for host will be held Wednesday, January 19 and Thursday, January 20 from 1-3 pm. You must sign up for an audition slot at the information session on January 18th, at the front desk of the Digital Lab, or by emailing [email protected] with two time choices.

Reporting shifts are available for students at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism from 8 am to 5 pm on newscast days (if you don't have a Tuesday or Thursday free, see below about shifts for our new podcast Detours). We request a 4-hour weekly commitment to give us and you consistency. If you are an print undergraduate student in the reporting semester of the Core Curriculum, you can earn learning lab credit at ARN.

To work on Annenberg Radio News, you must complete four workshops (pick one time from each workshop):
Field Recording Workshop: 1/24, Monday, 10:30am-12pm; 1/25, Tuesday 11am-12:30pm; 1/27, Thursday 11am-12:30pm;
Radio Booth Workshop: 1/24, Monday, 1:30-2:30pm; 1/25, Tuesday 1pm-2pm; 1/26, Wednesday, 11-12pm, or 3pm-4pm; 1/27, Thursday, 2-3pm; 1/28, Friday, 1:30pm-2:30pm;
Audio Editing Workshop: 1/25, Tuesday, 3-4:30pm; 1/26, Wednesday 11:00am-12:30pm; 1/28, Friday, 3:00-4:30pm;
Newsboss Workshop: 1/26, Wednesday 4-5pm; 1/27, Thursday, 3pm-4pm, or 4pm-5pm.

Annenberg Radio News is starting a new podcast in Spring 2011 called Detours with radio producer and ARN adjunct teacher Karen Lowe. It will be an offbeat podcast in which students can experiment with new approaches for sound, scene-setting, writing and audio production. This is for adventurous writers and producers who suffer from mental drift when listening to traditional radio and want to find ways to tell stories creatively. To get an idea of the kind of out-of-the-box creativity you can play with click here. Students must be available Mondays for 3 hours between 10 am and 4 pm, and they must take the ARN workshops the week of January 24, 2011. To apply, fill out an ARN application online here. If you are interested in receiving directed research credit for your participation in this podcast, please see ARN Director Willa Seidenberg or email [email protected].