Please excuse the interruption, I just anted to tell you about my new podcast which you can find at davysims.com. It·s about creativity, innovation, technology, media and investment and should be available every Thursday. In the first episode I

Podcasting for Journalism Students promo

Jun 2nd, 2017 1m 36s

I have thought about distributing this through the podcast, but as people expect an audio file, not a PDF, I decided it was better to post this PDF here and allow anyone to download it … for a short time at least It is available on Kindle and a

Irish Times Podcasts

Apr 20th, 2017 17m 54s

Let’s start with some history and some dates. The Times (the London Times if you like) was named in 1788, the Times of India 50 years later in 1838. The New York Times was … 1851. The Irish Times started in Dublin in 1859. Like the Guardian New

Episode 21 - The Story So Far

Feb 16th, 2017 20m 27s

As we reach episode 21 … this is the story so far. In September 2016 Belfast journalist Malachi O’Doherty was the first voice on the first episode of what was then called “Podcasting For dot dot dot”. He talked about how digitising and archivin

No Such Thing as a Fish

Jan 22nd, 2017 21m 41s

Just before we start ... I’ve just published the second book in the Podcasting For series – Podcasting for Journalism Students – it on Amazon for Kindle and you can get links and more information here. Davy Without wanting to sound like I’m sin

Barbara McCann - Journalist and Broadcaster

Jan 12th, 2017 19m 12s

Barbara McCann has been a journalist in radio, television and print since the late 1970s. In this edition of “Podcasting for … (communities, journalism students, anyone interested)”, we talk about interviewing and writing for radio (and podca

Trail - Barbara McCann - Journalist and Broadcaster

Jan 10th, 2017 2m 2s

Barbara McCann has been a journalist in radio, television and print since the late 1970s. I interviewed her for the Podcasting for Communities series and in the next episode Barbara discusses interviewing. Along with reading, writing, recording

Maxine Mawninney talks about interviewing

Jan 4th, 2017 40m 18s

As an anchor on the BBC News channel, Maxine Mawhinney probably spends more time interviewing than anything else. The interviewees will be in the studio or remote – somewhere else in the country or really, anywhere in the world. Sometimes they

Maxine Mawhinney - Broadcaster and Journalist

Jan 2nd, 2017 3m 46s

This is Podcasting for communities – the starter’s guide to podcasting and community radio production. You can subscribe and download from iTunes, Siticher, Tune In and Libsyn. Did you know if you have a high voice – you can lower it using a tu

Review: Opinion iPhone App

Dec 23rd, 2016 2m 43s

A friend – a journalist with decades of experience – asked me about starting a podcast – but nothing too complicated. She needed a simple podcasting tool that didn’t require a lot of setting up, carrying equipment, or lots of faffing around. I

Mitch Lafon - Rock journalist and podcaster

Nov 16th, 2016 39m 34s

The Podcasting for Communities’ podcast is part of a project that includes the podcastingfor.com blog and the Podcasting For Communities' e-book which you can find on Amazon. There are links on the blog: www.podcastingfor.com In this episode,

How long should a podcast be?

Nov 12th, 2016 3m 1s

How long should a podcast be? When I was about 12 or 13 and at school, a teacher would tell the class to write an essay or a report on something or another and the first question from my classmates would be “Sir, sir” – they were almost all sir

Interview with Malachi O'Doherty

Nov 7th, 2016 27m 10s

In this series I’m talking to podcasters, producers, writers and broadcasters about their work and their approach to podcasting. In this episode I’m talking to Belfast journalist Malachi O’Doherty who I have known and worked with for around 30

Jukedeck

Nov 5th, 2016 2m 4s

Once again we turn our attention to music. I like music. I like music in podcasts. But as I have pointed out on the blog and in earlier episodes, using music is complicated. You can’t use just any song or instrumental, unless you have a lic

Free Music Archive's Cheyenne Hohman

Oct 12th, 2016 20m 19s

Lets talk about Music In this edition of Podcasting For I’m talking to Cheyenne Hohman, the Managing Director of the Free Music Archive When I started planning this Podcasting For podcast, I searched around the Internet to find music I coul

Why should communities podcast?

Oct 6th, 2016 3m 32s

About 20 years ago some of us had our first experience building websites with Angelfire and Geocities. They gave ordinary untrained people their first chance to be creative on the web. Yes, many of the early websites we built were ugly – well

Johnny Seifert: podcast and radio producer

Oct 4th, 2016 17m 49s

There are two versions of this edition. This is the shorter one. The other is the downloadable version. You can find it on Johnny Seifert's page on podcastingfor.com. In the longer version my guest Johnny Seifert spends extra time talking about

Podcasting - where do you start?

Sep 29th, 2016 3m 3s

Just yesterday, I got a call from a young magazine publisher. He had heard about Podcasting for Communities from a mutual friend and wanted to find out how to start a podcast for the magazine. He said that they had been thinking about it for a

Olly Mann interview

Sep 14th, 2016 26m 43s

It’s more than 10 years since Olly Mann began podcasting. He’s now one of the most prolific and popular podcasters in the UK. When he and Helen Zaltzman started Answer Me This, hardly anyone knew what a podcast was. When the Guardian stopped

Sound recording and microphones - interview with Willis McBrier

Sep 14th, 2016 31m 49s

This edition of the Podcasting for is all about recording audio. I’m talking to an old friend Willis McBrier – we talk a lot. The conversation is in two parts. First it’s about sound itself, ambience, record levels, psychoacoustics. In t

Larry Gifford of The Radio Stuff Podcast

1 Sep 14th, 2016 24m 5s

The main interview in this episode of Podcasting For ... is radio consultant and podcaster, Larry Gifford. Larry produces “The Radio Stuff”. In the book Podcasting for Communities, I outline five essential skills a podcaster or a radio producti

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