Being Professional with your Passion (PodCamp SLC)

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Being Professional With YourPassion

Derrick Clements

The Pixar Podcast


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Being Professional With Your Passion

What I dont mean by professional(rule of 2 feet):

Attract huge numbers (1/10 size of other blogs)

Make Big $$

What I do mean


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What I dont mean by professional(rule of 2 feet):

Attract huge numbers (1/10 size of other blogs)

Make Big $$

What I do mean:

Get great guests

Attract cool listeners

Create real journalistic value, not just fan value


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Any fan podcasts here?

Hobby podcasts?I will talk about how to take that to the professional level


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Takeaway lessons:

The weight of major media outlets comesfrom their names. Everything else we can do.

You make your own press pass.


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Rule: You can still do important work even if you

are not important.

I AM NOT IMPORTANT.


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Equipment

Audacity is powerful (and free).

A pop filter is great.

Good mic performance.


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Pretend to know what youre doing?


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Pretend to know what youre doing?

See how many podcasting principles you can find in this clip.

(HINT: Dishonesty is NOT a correct answer!)


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Mind blowing idea:

Print Journalism exists in s p a c e. Broadcast Journalism exists in time

Where does podcasting exist? Back to the future time


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Are podcasters REALLY journalists?

1947 book about new media: Carl Warren: Radio

News Writing and Editing

One finds fairly well-beaten paths into the older

professions of law and medicine. Not so plainlymarked are the ways of entrance into more modernoccupations not yet so clearly defined. Radiojournalism is fairly new. It has been made complex

both by its newness and by the fact that it stilldraws some of its workers from other institutionsin particular, the press.


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Are podcasters REALLY journalists?

1947 book about new media: Carl Warren: Radio

News Writing and Editing

Yes, Women Are Wanted! The argument that

women are at a disadvantage in this work grows out

of a failure to distinguish between the functions of

processing and of speaking news. While she may be

ranked by some as a man's inferior behind themicrophone, there is no question of the woman's

equality behind the typewriter.


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Make-your-own Press Pass

You have to convince an editor you are worthtaking a chance with. You have to demonstrate aninterest in current affairs at all levels; a livelyinterest in people, places and events; an ability to

write in a style that is easy to understand; goodspelling, grammar and punctuation; an appreciationof the part a local newspaper plays in thecommunity; a willingness to accept irregular hours;

an ability to work under pressure to meetdeadlines; determination and persistence.-Brian Beal, The Making of a Modern Nosey-Parker: Careers in Journalism.


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Interviews


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Interviews


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Ethics

Seek truth and report it. Journalists should be honest,

fair, and courageous in gathering, reporting and

interpreting information. Minimize harm. Ethical

journalists treat sources, subjects, and colleagues ashuman beings deserving of respect.Act independently.

Journalists should be free of obligation to any interest

other than the public's right to know. Be accountable.

Journalists are accountable to their readers, listeners,viewers, and each otherWillis, Jim. The Mind of a Journalist: How Reporters View Themselves, Their

World, and Their Craft.


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Ethics

What is libel or slander in the news? In nontechnical

language it may be defined as an untruthful printed or

broadcast statement which exposes a person or group

of persons to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.More simply stated, it is anything that unjustly

defames the character of an individual or hurts him in

his business, profession, or vocation (Warren, 276).

Warren, Carl Nelson. Radio News Writing and Editing.


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