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S1E12: Manoush Zomorodi on Engagement and Audience Interaction May 15, 2018

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The smartphone has changed audience interaction forever, and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self is a trailblazer in audience engagement. She talks through extreme engagement,
and how she managed to get listeners not just to call in, but to change their lifestyles.
Show notes
@manoushz
Note to Self
https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself
Bored and Brilliant series
https://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and- brilliant
Bored and Brilliant; How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Brilliant- Spacing-Productive- Creative/dp/1250124956
Ghosting, Simmering and Icing with Esther Perel
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/esther-perel- online-dating/
I Didn’t See Your Text
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/esther-perel- empathy/
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E11: Julie Shapiro on Podcasting May 08, 2018

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You have to love and idea and a topic so much that you want to live it, breath it, eat it and marry it. That’s the advice that Radiotopia’s Julie Shapiro gives for anyone who wants to get into podcasting.
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@jatomic
http://www.julieshapiro.org/who/
Radiotopia
https://www.radiotopia.fm/
Ear Hustle
https://www.earhustlesq.com/
Millennial
http://www.millennialpodcast.org/
99% Invisible
https://99percentinvisible.org/
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E10: Lyse Doucet on Journalism in Hostile Environments Apr 30, 2018

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The job of a journalist is to tell the stories of our time. In this episode, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet talks through the challenges facing today's journalists from the conflict frontlines to the increasing hostility to the mainstream media.
Show notes
@bbclysedoucet
The Real Story, What is Fuelling The War in Yemen (BBC World Service)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswx1l
Lyse Doucet Reunites With Refugee Family in Canada (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37412117/lyse-doucet-reunites-with-syrian-refugee-family-in-canada
Syria in the Wake of US-led Missile Strikes (BBC Newshour)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w252dqg20mt
Syria: The World's War (BBC Two)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b227d8
Inside Yemen: Three Years of War
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct553w
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E9: Steve Inskeep on Going Live Apr 23, 2018

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Going live is one of the trickiest skills for any audio journalist to master. In this episode, NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep draws on his decades behind the mike to outline some of his top strategies for going live.
Show notes
@nprinskeep
Morning Edition
https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/
To Escape Civil War, Many Yemenis Flee to Djibouti
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839290/to-escape-civil-war-many-yemenis-flee-to-dijibouti
Yemeni Refugees Cross Gulf of Aden to Seek Safety in East Africa
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967396/yemeni-refugees-cross-gulf-of-aden-to-seek-safety-in-east-africa
Why Yemen’s War Mostly Remains Out of News Headlines
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839325/why-yemens-war-remains-mostly-out-of-news-headlines
US Fast Tracks Missile Defence System to East Asia, Drawing China’s Ire
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/09/519369095/u-s-fast-tracks-missile-defense-system-to-s-korea-drawing-chinas-ire
Insurgents in Nigeria Release Most of the Girls Abducted Last Month
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791356/insurgents-in-nigeria-release-most-of-101-schoolgirls-abducted-last-month
Major Breaks in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177928415/major-breaks-in-boston-marathon-bombing-case
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.
PHOTO: Aspeninstitute-Internal- https://www.flickr.com/photos/60463478@N08/

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S1E8: Neal Razzell on Using Sound Apr 16, 2018

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Sound and silence are the tools of an audio journalist, and their uses – as emphasis, as illustration, as explication or as a chapter break – are manifold. In this episode, the BBC’s Neal Razzell talks through how to make your pieces sing, and how to go one step further with sound.
Show notes
Neal Razzell 's Twitter - @NealRazzell
Spain’s Battle for the Bull (Documentary Podcast, BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zrkw
Last Call From Aleppo (Crossing Continents, Radio 4, BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd778
Audiograph: The Sound of the Brexit Pound
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043px57
Audiograph: The Sound of Climate Change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043pryr
Audiograph: The Sound of Mexican Migration to the US
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dyfg9
Audiograph: Falling Infant Mortality Rates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0418j8v
Opposing Obama (BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100128_opposing_obama_part_1.shtml
Podcast series: The Assassination (BBC World Service)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E7: Natasha Mitchell on Writing for Radio Apr 09, 2018

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One of the biggest secrets to writing for radio is not writing for radio, but letting your sound and your interviewees do some of the work. In this episode, Natasha Mitchell of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Radio National walks us through how to show, not always tell, for radio.
Show notes
Natasha Mitchell's Twitter @natashamitchell
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/natasha-mitchell/2914164
Eugenics, Power and Privilege; Why America had a Nazi Problem Before Charlottesville (Science Friction)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/eugenics-history-us-had-nazi-problem-before-charlottesville/8883074
Calling all Carnivores and Vegetarians; Would You Eat Meat Grown in a Lab? (Science Friction)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/would-you-eat-in-vitro-meat-grown-in-a-lab/9185470
The Secret Life of Children (Earshot)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-secret-life-of-children/7936046
The Secrets Inside Your Cells; Epigenetics, Trauma and Ancestry (Science Friction)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/the-secrets-inside-your-cells/9237992
Recorded at Studio 757, External Relations, University of Melbourne
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team:
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E6: S1 Ep 6 Robert Smith on The Art of Radio Packages Mar 26, 2018

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Learn how to fantasise your ideal piece into reality, as well as how to become an audio hunter who knows exactly what they want and how to get it. In this episode, NPR's Robert Smith decodes the structure of a radio news package, talking through the tricks of the trade, and how to do it all on a tight deadline.
Show notes:
Robert Smith’s Twitter - @radiosmith
Harlem Says Its Farewell to James Brown
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6692842
Episode 788: Robert And Kenny Go To The Fair
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/11/542893444/episode-778-robert-and-kenny-go-to-the-fair
Countdown Begins as Planet Money's Satellite Gets Placed on Rocket
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582513401/countdown-begins-as-planet-moneys-satellite-gets-placed-on-rocket
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team:
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E5: S1 Ep 5 Becky Lipscombe on Recording in the Field Mar 19, 2018

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Use your mic like a camera, zooming in and out to getting aural close-ups and wide shots to build texture to your pieces. In this episode, the BBC’s Africa producer Becky Lipscombe talks through how to report in the field including what to take out with you and how to get the sound you need.
Show notes
Becky Lipscombe’s Soundcloud page
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip
Robert Mugabe Resigns (BBC Newshour)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1h1kz89l2
Zimbabwe; The People Have Spoken
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/zimbabwe-the-people-have-spoken
Sierra Leone; The Ebola Orphans
https://soundcloud.com/beckylip/sierra-leone-the-ebola-orphans
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team:
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E4: S1 Ep 4 Elspeth Morrison on Finding your Radio Voice Mar 12, 2018

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In audio journalism, you need to sound like yourself plus 10%. But what does that even mean? In this episode, voice coach Elspeth Morrison breaks down how to find your radio voice and use it appropriately.
Show notes
Elspeth Morrison a voice coach who has worked with journalists for almost twenty years. She has trained many BBC journalists, as well as training actors in her other job as an accent coach.
@elspeth27
A Guide to Northern English Accents (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1RpWFqs6CR94G8DqKNVKGrQ/a-guide-to-northern-english-accents
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team:
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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S1E3: S1 E3: Hamish Macdonald on The Art of the Interview Mar 05, 2018

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Interviewing is like playing chess; you need to predict two moves ahead and have your figurative pieces in play ready to meet your interviewee there. In this episode, the award-winning journalist Hamish Macdonald talks through the art of the interview, and the importance of holding people in power to account.
Show notes
Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning Australian broadcaster and foreign correspondent. He sometimes presents ABC Radio National’s Breakfast show, as well as hosts Channel Ten’s The Project. He has also worked at Al Jazeera, ABC America and the UK’s Channel Four. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2016, and won the RTS Young Journalist of the Year in 2008.
@hamishnews
Michael Wolff dismisses ‘silly’ criticisms of Fire and Fury in Heated Interview (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/michael-wolff-says-criticisms-of-trump-book-fire-and-fury-silly/9319852
Pray for us; Aleppo is really ‘hell… A firsthand account of life in Syria (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/dr-farida-almouslem/7837880
Christopher Pyne calls for Sam Dastyari to be Sacked (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/christopher-pyne-calls-for-sam-dastyari-to-be/7813634
Sam Dastyari Donations Scandal; Christopher Pyne Backtracks from Breach Claim (SMH)
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sam-dastyari-chinese-donations-scandal-christopher-pyne-backtracks-from-breach-claim-20160905-gr8p4y.html
The Truth is (Channel 10)
https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-truth-is/2013/6/3
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/resources/horwood
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Production Team:
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an upcoming podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co-produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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