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Featuring A Different Type of AIR Member

 

This month we're featuring three particularly unique AIR members. We've got award-winning audio from the New York Festivals, a member spotlight on the World Vision Report, and a little shout out to the Third Coast Festival.

AIR Member Spotlight: The World Vision Report


          The World Vision Report encourages reporters to think and work creatively. Our pieces are sound-rich and vivid, and our show elements are unique and varied. The show has won World Vision a bevy of national awards, including a Gracie, three Clarions and a Gabriel. In 2005 and 2006, the show won the New York Festivals' UN Gold Medal awards, for a story on an 84-year-old man who was entering first grade in Kenya and an investigative piece on child slavery in Ghana (check out the AIRBlast audio for a listen).
          If you're interested in covering poverty and justice issues from an international perspective and you're a seasoned reporter, the World Vision Report would like to hear from you. We use the personal stories of ordinary people to address everything from human rights to efforts to stamp out poverty. We're especially interested in stories from the developing world.
          The show has just begun its marketing campaign to get on public radio stations. We hope that the number of stations carrying it will grow quickly in the coming months.

Click here to learn more about the World Vision Report. If you're interested in filing for the show, you can contact, Leda Hartman the assignment editor.

AIR would also like to congratulate those members who received awards from The Third Coast International Audio Festival, honoring the most creative and compelling audio work being produced worldwide.

Jad Abumrad, Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler, Rebecca Sheir, Joe Richman. To find out more about all the Third Coast winners, you can go here.


AIR Goodies

 

Dick Brooks Radio Skills Weekend Intensive

Los Angeles, CA Martin Luther King Weekend, January 12-14

The Radio Skills workshop provides instruction, practice and critiques on the critical details of story selection and focus, interviewing to get the right material, radio script writing and performance designed for maximum listener interest and story impact. Producers learn to "vet" or critique each other's work in a positive and constructive manner that leads to more collegial relationships and better radio productions. Attendance is limited to 10 registrants. Cost is $350 for AIR members, $500 for non-members. For more information, apply online. or email Dolores Brandon dbrandon@airmedia.org

AIR's Member Drive Extended Through JAN 1, 2007!

You have one more month to participate and improve your independent community! Just before Turkey Time, our Member Drive leaders were...
Philip Graitcer                   76 Points
Francesca Rheannon          26 Points
Robynn Takayama             26 Points
Sarah Elzas                       25 Points
P.W. Fenton                       25 Points

To learn more about the membership drive and find out who is in the lead, click here

Best of the AIR Daily

The AIR Daily, one of the favorite perks of AIR membership, is an online and e-mail listserv connecting 550+ audio professionals sharing timely information from contacts, rates and rights to interviewing and scriptwriting techniques, equipment and new technologies, jobs and tape synch opportunities.
Gregg McVicar: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but an mp3 podcast cannot include video, while an mp4 (AAC) podcast can. And any mp4 (AAC) file plays on any iPod or on any Mac or Windows computer via Quicktime (which is free and widely used).
P.W. Fenton: You are correct about mp3. It is an audio only file type. mp4 is a video file type that offers a great deal of compression, but yields decent video quality and can be played on most video players.
Barry Rueger typed with cat on lap: According to the good ol' Wikipedia, MP4 is a container file that can deliver a variety of different types of content, including ACC audio. AAC is an Audio format, not Video. Apple's is technically MPEG-4 AAC format. The varied and often non-standard use of the many MPx terms tends to confuse things.

We'd love to get your feedback. You can send comments, questions, or suggestions regarding the AIRblast to airblast@airmedia.org

Funding for AIR comes from our members and the generous support of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
 
 

                 AIR Audio

Featuring AIR recipients of

The New York Festivals' 24th Annual International Radio Programming & Promotion Awards.
The New York Festivals recognizes "The World's Best Work" in radio programming and promotion.

Prue Clarke - Ghana Child Slavery, Recipient of the Gold World Medal for Best Investigative Report, UNDPI - Gold, World Vision Report
Will Everett - A Glimpse Behind the Burka, Recipient of the Bronze World Medal in Best News Analysis/Commentary, World Vision Report
Steve Mencher - And Justice for Some: The U.S. Battle with the International Criminal Court, Recipient of the Bronze World Medal for Best National/International Affairs category, UNDPI - Finalist, Justice Talking, Michele Ernsting, producer. Erin Mooney, co-producer.
Jeffrey Lunden - Let Me Entertain You: The Songs of Jule Styne, Recipient of the Bronze Medal in the Culture and the Arts category, National Public Radio

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Upcoming Award Deadlines

From the AIR Awards Directory


The Webby Awards

December 15

To honor excellence on the Internet in over 100+ categories, including sites with ties to a radio network, station or program, either on the air or on the Web.

The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

January 5

Honors the journalist or journalists whose investigative reporting in a story or series of related stories best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy or the practice of politics.

The Gracie Allen Awards

January 5

To encourage the realistic and faceted portrayal of women in entertainment, commercials, news, features and other programs.


The Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards

January 8

To recognize communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public's understanding of the law and the legal system.


The American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Awards for Media and The Arts

January 9

To recognize communications media that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public's understanding of the law and the legal system.


The Peadbody Awards

January 17

To recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals.