Recorded November 2023. The news simply will not stop happening. It feels like every day we wake up, only to find that more things have occurred whilst we slept. So how do you turn all this relentless happening into a podcast? Oh, and you need to release every day, mon-fri. This episode our intrepid team of reporters is taking a look at the art of daily news podcasting, and getting to the bottom of why it's such an exciting and challenging area of podcasting to work in. 

In this episode podcast producers Jackie Lamport and Andrew Ganem are joined by podcast production manager Elizabeth Amos, audio engineer Alex Bennett, and the former deputy executive producer of Stories of Our Times James Shield. They discuss:

• What makes news podcasting different from other podcasts?
• What can we learn from news podcasts?
• How James produced the Stories of Our Times podcast.
• Following your own curiosity when making a podcast. 
• The inimitable hosting style of Michael Barbaro.

They take a look at The Daily from the New York Times and Stories of Our Times from the Times of London.  

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Links to resources mentioned in the show:

• The Daily: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736   
• Stories of Our Times (now The Story): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/the-story  
• NYT reporting standards: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/media/new-york-times-caliphate-podcast.html
• Reithian values of the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/directors-general/john-reith 
• Trust in news reporting: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/27/u-s-adults-under-30-now-trust-information-from-social-media-almost-as-much-as-from-national-news-outlets/ 
• The Run-Up podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/column/run-up-election-podcast 

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