Matti Kajander, Executive Producer at Yle began the session by talking about how YLE in Finland creates music dramas every summer. These music dramas take a lot of research, interviews and time. It is important to balance the chronology of the famous person who the drama is based on with what is

'As a songwriter and an artist its beautiful to create something for someone else and hopefully they can use that in the future' recounts singer/songwriter Alexander Oscar, recalling a moment where he wrote a song about 'Two Queens in a King Size Bed' for two young people who were coming-out.  Calling out to

For this session Julie, the VP of Editorial at PRX and Radiotopia, had a, as she called it, a "meandering conversation" with Tim Hinman, the Sound Person & Co-founder at Third Ear Studios. They talked about their own careers and their loves in audio, and their favourite podcasts.  The audience heard several clips

Megan Davies, Adam Uytman and Jamie East demonstrated how podcasts can become a worldwide success. At the beginning of the session, Megan said that the universe of podcasts is not new. More and more people listen and more and more people do it. Including several celebrities who created their podcast to reach

Southern Cross Austero (SCA) has 99 commercial radio stations, 105 TV channels, over 108 weekly podcasts, 25 music jukebox stations, and more. Listnr teams all of these things together, combining your favourite live local and national radio stations as well as content from partners including the BBC, ESPN, Apple Music and more.  In

Nigel and Earlonne met in 2012. They got on professionally straight away, working on a photography project, but it took a while for them to start to working together in the audio space. Then PRX Radiotopia put a call out around the world for projects which they could invest in, and Earhustle

Sinatou Saka, Editorial Project Manager & Specialised Journalist at RFI & France 24 spoke about using WhatsApp to connect to listeners. She uses a simple format of a short message, interactive format and makes sure it is relaxed in its tone - even using emojis. It’s also about finding out how your

For this conversational session, Kris Clarkin and Diederik van Middlekoop joined Liedewij Hentenaar, to talk about the ways in which the industry can make better ads for radio.  First, up, Kris and Diederik both agree that the best ads are short and get straight into the detail of the product or service they

Nick Karkazis is the Programme Director and Head of Imaging at SPIN 1038 in Ireland. He doesn't use the word "youth" too often because his audience wouldn't really like that word, but he has worked incredibly hard attracting the "youth" audience to his station. Nick has created several specialist shows. One of his

Ask Shirish Kulkarni how we save journalism and he’ll tell you he doesn’t want to save journalism. At least not the sexist, racist and homophobic journalism he feels often prevails.  The templates that exist for journalism are outdated and largely created by, and created for, middle class white men. He wants this to