Podcast Challenge

We're finally at the deadline, and ready to hear the result of the challenge! This episode is produced by Isabel Piesbergen and Havanna Fernandez, students from HWZ. In the last two months they have learned how to create a compelling podcast, and here is the result. They have no previous experience in podcasting, and has been learning by doing! This episode is in Swiss German.

Music in this episode comes from Scott Holmes Music, Podington Bear, Jackson F. Smith, John Bartmann and Ergo Phizmiz Rock'N'Roll Machine.

Sound effects are from BBC Sound Effects.

We're finally at the deadline, and ready to hear the result of the challenge! This episode is produced by Silvana Cucu, Rea Vogel and Ernesto Escalier, students from HWZ. In the last two months they have learned how to create a compelling podcast, and here is the result. They have no previous experience in podcasting, and has been learning by doing! This episode is in German.

The final step of our challenge is to add music and sounds to our podcast story. But how to use sounds? And when do we know if we're using too much of it? Micah Schweizer previous public radio producer from the US, and now working at a lab at ETH Zürich, guides us through these choices. And the students arrives closer to their deadline... 

In this episode we cover aspects of podcast editing. We'll look at the creative parts of editing, and we'll get to follow the students as they enter into the editing phase of their podcast. Today's podcast expert is Adèle Humbert, an investigative journalist from France. And the students make quite different choices in their approach to editing.

Getting your interview right is key to make a great podcast episode. In this episode we'll hear from Rose Rimler, producer at the Gimlet Media podcast Science Vs, on how she prepares for, and runs an interview. Experts can sometimes be very formal and precise, but how do we get them to open up and sound like humans? We'll get many tips on how to do that in this episode.

The Challenge has started! Our students are ready to start planning the podcast episodes about Blockchain and Big Data. But how to bring a complex topic down to something concrete? And where do you find your story? We'll hear from podcast expert Sven Preger, based in Germany and author of the book "Storytelling for Radio & Podcasts".

In this first episode of the Podcast Challenge, Diana Engetschwiler, head of Digital Day introduces the Podcast Challenge by talking to the host of the podcast Katarina Hagstedt from Podcast Tower, and Lea Bischoff from HWZ. The two student groups are also introduced, and they get to select the topic for their podcast episode, right here, on the mic.

Welcome to the Podcast Challenge, a podcast by Digital Day where we learn step by step how to make a podcast. Follow along in the next 6 episodes, and hear from experts from Germany, France, the US and Switzerland.