My journalistic experience: having a radio show in the US + podcasting 

Hello everyone! I hope you are well.
I have been studying in the US for nearly three months now. Leaving France, I was particularly excited about experiencing radio journalism.
I applied to join the Massachusetts Wozq radio, and was selected to record Newshour podcasts and host a live radio show (access the live here:https://mixlr.com/wozq919fm/ YOU CAN LISTEN TO MY LIVES EVERY TUESDAY FROM 10 to 11 AM UTC-5 USING THAT LINK)

I cover articles mentioned on the Sophian’s website, that is the website of an independent newspaper, and interview one of the author’s of the articles every week.
The topics are broad : they are inserted in culture, opinion, sex and society columns.
I especially enjoy talking about music, art, literature, fashion, and sharing the experience of students studying abroad.

•podcasting tips
The challenge is to cover topics in an interactive fashion, being spontaneous and professional.
Once, I had to transition from drones to bikini waxing, which was a good exercise to practice the adaptation and flexibility journalists experience.
Also, finding the right amount of topics is another challenge. Podcasts usually have to last 20 to 30 minutes so to keep the audience focused. I usually cover three articles, my co-host three as well, we interact regarding the articles we discuss and then the interview starts.
YOU CAN LISTEN TO MY PODCASTS HERE (episodes 7 to 11)

https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/newshour-ep-7/id1561647857?i=1000539008923

•having a live radio show
My radio show takes place on Tuesday mornings in a studio dedicated to the radio staff, usually I am have the studio for myself. After the Newshour part, I put on headphones, play songs and interact with the listeners with the microphone.
I also chat with the audience live on mixlr, where the show plays, complementary to the local radio. Last week, a listener was particularly sweet and wrote “your broadcasts should be longer”.

Here is what my studio looks like:

A few extracts of the podcast versions of my radio lives:

-Music
The Boston Symphony Orchestra:

The Boston Symphony orchestra reopened on September 30th. It had been closed for 568 days because of the pandemic.
It’s re-opening was like a Renaissance, starting with the piece that inaugurated the orchestra in October 1881, a consecration by Beethoven composed in 1822.

Then, the orchestra selected an interactive piece : a duet by John Williams and Anne Sophie Mutter, violin concerto number 2. The jazzy and vibrato ambiance filled the audience with life.

Afterwards, the orchestra went bold and selected a piece which had never been performed by an orchestra: the music of the 1979 film the long goodbye. A challenge that was successfully completed.

Finally the performance ended with a piece by Bartok, to accentuate the energy of the public. The piece, concerto for orchestra, conveyed vitality. The characteristic accents of Bartok’s music had worked their magic

-Literature:
The soft color of starvation in the morning:

The soft Colors of starvation in the morning are poems written by nineteen year old teenager Van Campen. […]. Raw moments are inserted into softer ones: the author alternates passages of the interior body (blood) and poetic metaphors « I tie the string on your tea around the handle so the paper/doesn’t fall in the cup ».
The intimacy of the piece is also conveyed through the author’s writing style, that is a stream of consciousness, reflecting their sense of self. The words written in italics to stress this intimacy.

What’s interesting is the diversity of the author’s influences. The expressionist artist Pollock is mentioned. His abstract paintings put a stress on personal gestures and on rawness (he paints on the floor with sudden movements).
The author was also inspired by author Robert Hass whose personal work is stressed by an epistolary style.
[…]
These books account for the author’s reminiscence, expressing a nostalgia towards keepsake moments.

-News:
Drone Protest:
On October 1st, a group of protesters, including several Amherst College students, demonstrated against drone warfare outside L3Harris, a local defense contractor, which student Cody Bloomfield denounces.
Bearing photographs of children killed by an American drone strike on August 29th ,
protesters denounced the role L3Harris played in feeding warfare overseas
the group supported anti-drone actions at Creech Air Force Base. […]
One protester claimed “I’ll be here every week until we end all wars.”, calls for L3Harris to shift from engineering surveillance technology to addressing climate change, and the freedom of Daniel Hale, who was sentenced to 45 months of prison in July because he did not abide by the Espionage Act. He distributed classified documents to the press, which revealed the number of civilians killed in drone strikes during Obama’s presidency had been obscured.

Hope you enjoyed!
XO
LFB