The Masterclass Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S3E12: S03E12: Wing Kuang on Starting a Career in Journalism
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“What makes you different from your peers who also want to get a job in journalism? ABC audio producer and digital reporter Wing Kuang is an expert ...
S3E11: S03E11: Kirsti Melville on Working with Sound
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The minute I walk into that space, I turn my audio ears on.” ABC broadcaster Kirsti Melville is an award-winning radio documentary maker, who alw...
S3E10: S03E10: Tamara Oudyn on Voice in Audio Journalism
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Your voice is such a personal quality…It’s like your own aural fingerprint.” As an ABC voice coach and journalist, Tamara Oudyn is shaping th...
S3E9: S0309: Jo Lauder on Audio Storytelling
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The thing that I love about audio is that...it's really intimate." ABC journalist Jo Lauder says audio can be really effective in transporting the li...
S3E8: S03E08: Daniel Browning on Objectivity in Journalism
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Who measures objectivity? Who judges objectivity?” Objectivity is traditionally seen as a cardinal tenet of journalism, but Daniel Browning's lon...
S3E7: S03E07: Konrad Marshall on the Craft of Feature Writing
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Always get the name of the dog, the brand of the beer, and the title of the song that was playing as the car crashed off the road.” This is one w...
S3E6: S03E06: Stephanie Convery on Feature Stories
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Focus on the intimate and particular.” When it comes to feature writing, Stephanie Convery says it is often the small details that count. Her wor...
S3E5: S03E05: Laura Murphy-Oates on Interviewing
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You can’t go in with no idea of what you might hope to get out of it, but you have to be open to what happens in the interview.” As former host...
S3E4: S03E04: Saffron Howden on Writing News Stories
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"If you haven't grabbed the readers' attention within the first 10-12 words, you lose them." Saffron Howden's job is training journalists how to write...
S3E3: S03E03: Nick McKenzie on Ethics and Defamation
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"It's about fairness in the search for the truth, and fairness in publishing our stories." The Age's Nick McKenzie has put fairness at the centre of h...
S3E2: S03E02: Finding Interviewees with Julia Bergin
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Every story that you do, you need to talk to people." Julia Bergin's journalistic career has taken her as far afield as Japan and the Northern Terr...
S3E1: S03E01: Finding a News Story with Angus Thomson
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You have to learn by doing, and you will only get better with practice.” Angus Thomson started with Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 2022, and...
S2E6: Silvi Vann-Wall on Pitching and Piloting
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Silvi Vann-Wall was a journalism student who was chosen as a finalist in a nationwide podcasting competition. Suddenly she found hersel...
S2E5: S2: E5 Matt Bevan on Season Arcs
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The most helpful part of the series arc is dragging people to the next episode,” says ABC’s Matt Bevan, the host of China, If You&r...
S2E4: Rachel Fountain on Turning Your Idea into a Podcast
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Audience and sustainability are two key factors for Deadset Studio's Executive Producer Rachel Fountain in thinking about what podcasts will work.&nbs...
S2E3: Martin Peralta on Sound Design
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It's never finished, but you get closer and closer to 'I'm happy with this'". Martin Peralta is one of Australia's most sought after sound desi...
S2E2: Elizabeth Kulas on Narrative Structure
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A good piece of work is written once. A great piece is written five times." To Elizabeth Kulas, the host of ABC's Days Like These, n...
S2E1: Marc Fennell on Telling Complicated Stories Simply
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In season 2 of The Masterclass, Louisa Lim explores podcasting with some of the world's best podcasters. In this episode, Marc Fennell, the crea...
S1E14: A Matter of Life and Death; True Crime Podcasts
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Louisa Lim explores the booming phenomenon of podcasts with investigative journalist Richard Baker and the ABC’s Rachael Brown. What makes this ...
S1E13: Pod Save Radio- How Podcasting is Transforming the Audio Sphere
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Louisa Lim moderated a lively discussion between Natasha Mitchell, host of the ABC's Science Friction and Robert Smith from Planet Money on NPR. They ...
S1E12: Manoush Zomorodi on Engagement and Audience Interaction
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The smartphone has changed audience interaction forever, and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self is a trailblazer in audience engagement. She talks ...
S1E11: Julie Shapiro on Podcasting
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
S1E10: Lyse Doucet on Journalism in Hostile Environments
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S1E9: Steve Inskeep on Going Live
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S1E8: Neal Razzell on Using Sound
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sound and silence are the tools of an audio journalist, and their uses – as emphasis, as illustration, as explication or as a chapter break &nda...
S1E7: Natasha Mitchell on Writing for Radio
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ep...
S1E6: Robert Smith on The Art of Radio Packages
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S1E5: Becky Lipscombe on Recording in the Field
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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&rsq...
S1E4: Elspeth Morrison on Finding your Radio Voice
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S1E3: S1 E3: Hamish Macdonald on The Art of the Interview
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
S1E2: S1 E2: Mike Innes on Finding a Story and Turning It Into Radio
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the words of the British comedy figure Alan Partridge, dead air is a crime. But how to go about finding sparkling interviewees to bring your pieces...
S1E1: S1: E1 Power of Audio
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One word is all it takes to sum up the power of audio. The same word kept popping up in my conversations with some of the best audio journalists in th...