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A transparency in journalism project

Brad Linder · Mar 26, 2007 · 2 Comments

I’m going to try something new. Rather than just posting links to stories I’ve completed on this blog, I want to leverage some of the power of the internet to better tell a story.

One of the hardest things to learn as a journalist is how to whittle a lot of information into a small succinct package. There’s value in this. A lot of information isn’t absolutely important to the story you’re trying to tell, and shorter stories are more digestable. And of course, not every story on NPR warrants a full hour’s discussion. Sometimes two and a half minutes is just about right.

But when I spend hours and hours interviewing someone about complex issues like the death penalty or affordable housing, it always seems like such a shame that so much “tape” gets left on the “cutting room floor.” Yes, I realize that most radio journalists don’t use tape or have cutting rooms anymore, but it’s still an evocative image, isn’t it?

I try to put the most evocative tape into my stories. But sometimes you just pick one of a thousand moments from an interview that will help you move the story along. Does that mean that nobody should hear the rest of this person’s words?

So starting with the Death Penalty story that I produced for this week’s episode of Justice Talking, I’m going to try to put some extra tape up on the web whenever I can. I’ll have a post up shortly with extended interviews.

You can subscribe to my “behind the story podcast” or you can visit my Odeo channel if you’d like more options, like an easy way to subscribe with iTunes.

Update: My first “behind the story” post is up, with two in-depth interviews from my death penalty feature.

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Brad Linder is editor of mobile tech blog Liliputing.com, host of the LPX Show podcast, and an independent journalist whose work has appeared on public radio and the web.

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  1. Davis Freeberg says

    March 27, 2007 at 12:57 am

    This is a great experiment. One of the things I love about the internet is that there is no limitations on how much or how little content you want to publish. You just keep writing until you feel like you said what you needed to say and then stop. I’m glad that we’ll get to hear everything you had to say even if it didn’t fit into a 15 minute spot.

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  2. Brad Linder says

    March 27, 2007 at 12:58 am

    Thanks Davis. I’d have the first files up already, but Odeo’s giving me some problems. I’m trying another service right now. Stay tuned…

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