About This Course
teaches feature writing and audio editing. It offers instruction from a host of award winning speakers, and each student is given the opportunity to publish.
All pieces from the spring 2010 class were published – seven through National Public Radio affiliate WFIU, one through WFHB Bloomington Community Radio, 10 to be aired on WIUX. All students practiced pitching their work with WFIU News Director Stan Jastrzebski.
Students edited and produced their sound with Adobe Soundbooth. Editing instruction was provided by adjunct lecturer Sarah Neal-Estes and graduate assistants Jeremy Lacey and Justin Metzger. Ten students learned Adobe Audition through WFIU.
About the instructor:
Sarah Neal-Estes teaches J360 Audio Storytelling I and II at Indiana University. The advanced level in this series starts Spring 2011.
Neal-Estes worked as a radio reporter, producer and newscaster with KUAC-FM Fairbanks, Alaska, freelanced nationally for NPR and holds a masters in journalism from the University of California Berkeley.
Her work shares in first-place national awards with a co-production of KQED-FM San Francisco and the Kitchen Sisters (a Golden Reel) and a production through Alaska Public Radio Network (a PRINDI). She also won the Society of Professional Journalists Pacific Northwest Regional Excellence in Journalism First Place for Best News Series, "Alaska's Pipe Dreams."