The Audiophiles » election http://www.theaudiophiles.net Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:17:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Producing on Inauguration Day http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2009/01/20/producing-on-inauguration-day/ http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2009/01/20/producing-on-inauguration-day/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:30:30 +0000 nick http://www.theaudiophiles.net/?p=161 satellite image of President Obama's inauguration
(Satellite image courtesy of GeoEye)

I had the fortune of producing the radio news on KQED this morning. We had two reporters in D.C. who called in to give us a feel for what it was like on the ground.

This first piece of audio is this morning’s The California Report. Scott Shafer called in from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, as thousands of people streamed into the area for the inauguration ceremony.

And here is part of the 6:30am Northern California news break, with this morning’s host, Sarah Varney, speaking with reporter Tamara Keith, who was also on location in D.C.

These reports aired a couple of hours before the ceremony, so there wasn’t much in the way of hard news to report. But it was fun to get a sense for the anxious atmosphere.

UPDATE: Check out this series of photos of the inauguration from around the world.

]]> http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2009/01/20/producing-on-inauguration-day/feed/ 0 That nasty habit of gatekeeping http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2007/07/18/the-nasty-habit-of-gatekeeping/ http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2007/07/18/the-nasty-habit-of-gatekeeping/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:43:06 +0000 nick http://www.theaudiophiles.net/?p=12 CNN is hosting the upcoming “CNN/YouTube Debates,” starting Monday. But rather than selecting uploaded YouTube video questions at random for the candidates to answer, they are hand-picking them beforehand.

Doesn’t that make the whole YouTube thing irrelevant?

View questions and submit your own here.

(Entry numbers for the questions featured in today’s podcast are, in order: 776
921, 1078, 992, 1147, 113, 857, 995, 1076, 1157)

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