Podcasting and Blogging

One of the most important parts of my job at WFIU is exploring new opportunities to help the station expand our offerings online.



We began podcasting pretty early in the game and now have nearly twenty podcasts, including several that are produced exclusively for online distribution:

I organize, oversee, and often produce many of our online only products, but I also ensure that our broadcast programs make it online as podcasts whenever possible and are archived for on-demand listening.

We’re about to expand our online offerings even further with several new audio podcasts and our first video podcast.

Coming in July, we’ll be launching “Earth Eats,” a weekly food and green living podcast with local chef Daniel Orr of FARM Bloomington.

Later in the summer, we’ll be launching our second podcast in partnership with The Kinsey Institute, “Kinsey Confidential: Sex Briefs,” a twice weekly podcast to complement our existing Kinsey Confidential Q&A Podcasts with more topical sexual health information provided by experts from the institute.

I’m also really excited about a new partnership with Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Global Change that will involve two new podcasts, “Muslim Voices” and “Crash Course in Islam,” addressing common misconceptions about Islam.

And finally, around the end of 2009, thanks to generous funding from the Brabson Library and Educational Foundation, WFIU’s A Moment of Science, a broadcast program that has been around for over twenty years, will undergo a significant makeover online. This project will include the creation of a new video podcast series, interactive polls and widgets to syndicate content to other sites and blogs, and a revamped website with better search functionality.

We’re also about to add our second blogger for the station.

For about a year, David Brent Johnson, the producer of WFIU’s weekly program of classic jazz, “Night Lights,” has been writing what has become a widely read and respected jazz blog.

In a few months, with the launch of the new website for our nationally syndicated early music program Harmonia, the show’s writer and host of the Harmonia Podcast, Bernard Gordillo will be blogging about the early music scene.

In addition to my work at the radio station, blogging and podcasting are areas I do freelance work in as well and I have had several past clients in that area, including a group of student bloggers for the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs: SPEAk! Graduate Student Blog.