At this small-group, brown-bag seminar, we’ll help humanities scholars improve their experiences and results with media outlets, particularly radio and podcasts. You’ll learn best practices on how to pitch stories to media outlets, prepare and execute interviews, translate research for a general audience, develop relationships with reporters, and represent findings and research online.
We welcome attendees to bring a specific project or question for group discussion. This could be a current project for which you’d like to gain more media attention; an article or other work you would like to transform to an audio format; or general questions such as how to become a recognized and regular source on mainstream media outlets.
To join: This Public Works Seminar is open to graduate students, faculty, and staff in the humanities and social sciences. Space is limited and registration is required. To join, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: weindling@wisc.edu. We welcome you to bring a lunch, and light refreshments will be available.
Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-producers of Ways of Knowing, a podcast series made in partnership with academic institutions like Johns Hopkins, UChicago, and The University of Washington. They have published academic papers; spent a semester at Cornell as practitioners-in-residence; and performed their octophonic audio compositions at more than 50 universities, theaters, and art spaces. They previously worked in public radio, where their reporting won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in sound design and was featured regularly on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, The World, Science Friday, and other nationally-syndicated radio programs.