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Nov 2021
37m 50s

True Crime Podcasting Tips with The Repo...

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About this episode
In this episode I interview Karin, Gary, and Kristine from the Reporters Notebook creators of the popular True Crime Podcast Still... The team talks about what it takes to create an investigative style true crime podcast and offers of great tips for creators going down the same path. This was a really fun interview with lots of good information. I hope you enjoy it.

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Chapters
00:00 Podcast Creators Into
01:28 Reporters Notebook Intro
03:40 Relationship between Reporters Notebook and Still...
05:22 Naming a True Crime Podcast
06:20 Podcasting as a full-time job
08:10 Journalist True Crime compared to Armchair Sleuths
10:15 How to start an Investigative True Crime Podcast
13:00 Download performance
14:20 Biggest hurdles creating a True Crime Podcast
15:45 Rapid release strategy for Serial Podcasts
17:27 Episode and Season Considerations
19:20 How do you spend time on the podcast
21:30 Logistics of creating a True Crime Podcast
25:35 Learnings from Starting a True Crime Podcast
28:30 Where the show is recorded
30:30 Equipment for field recording (Audio Technica shotgun mic, boom, deadcat, Zoom H4N)
33:38 Advice for Podcast Creators
35:45 Season 2 of Still...
36:20 Search for Still... in all your podcast
37:00 Podcast Creators Outro

Hosting
Still is hosted on Podbean - https://bit.ly/3jD49Ja
Podcast Creators is hosted on Spreaker - https://bit.ly/SpreakerPC

Reporters Notebook Gear
Microphone - Shure SM-58 internal recording - https://amzn.to/3oqdDdb
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Field Mocrophone Microphone - Audio Technica AT897 - https://amzn.to/3qEWXkO
Audio Interface and Field Recorder - Zoom H5n - https://amzn.to/3kBLDlG

Podcast Creator Studio
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Edited using Adobe Premiere - https://bit.ly/adobePC

Original Music Composed By David Rosen - https://bit.ly/3E3dIdS

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