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Yesterday I attended a really good online event sponsored by CSU for Library Week (organized by my site supervisor Kheir) with journalist and writer Arionne Nettles talked about podcasting. I loved her book We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything, and it was fun to hear her talk about audio journalism and the crafting of news stories and podcasts.

I took a screenshot of a slide she put up of some of her takeaways from advice she gave.


For me the main takeaway was to write how you talk. I tend to do this anyway, but then again I don't tend to do that anyway. Ha! What I mean by that is that when I am writing something that I know will be a spoken piece, I write in a casual way, but more along the lines of the casual way that I wish I talked. There's a difference. Sometimes that works to my advantage and sometimes it does not. It's all about context I guess. It’s a bit like how a really good stand up comedian is themself, but a layered and more articulate version of themself. But I get what Dr. Nettles is saying. Audio journalism and podcasts are made to be listened to and it’s hard to hook people in if your sentence structure is too complicated.

Thanks to CSU for planning!

Today I will be doing my zine workshop at the archive, and I hope it goes well!

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Today's standards fulfilled as per the Society of American Archivists Curriculum:

A. CORE ARCHIVAL KNOWLEDGE, 3. Contextual knowledge, a) Social and Cultural Context, d) Underserved & Underrepresented Communities (pp. 7-8) 

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