Ears Open Wide: A Radio Journalist's Take on Collecting Oral History, by David Gutnick

Over the last twenty-five years David Gutnick has wandered the world with his microphone doing interviews and making radio documentaries for CBC radio. Unlike news reporters who spend much of their time chasing down experts and news makers who are used to speaking to reporters, David does the opposite, in that he speaks to people who are not in the spotlight. So is a radio journalist just collecting oral history and putting on the airwaves? What are the similarities between oral history and radio journalism, what are the differences? What are the techniques that David has developed that might be useful for people who are recording oral histories? What works, what does not? David will talk about the practical stuff - microphones and so on - as well the more esoteric stuff around how to get the best of a 'difficult' story, a nervous person and so on. Whenever someone says they have nothing interesting to say...there may be a hidden goldmine just needing the right listener. This talk could be rather fun, we can learn together.

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