Hi, reporters – this week we’ve got a guest post from Alan Yu at WHYY (which is, in fact, the call letters of a radio station, and coincidentally a very on-point name for a journalism outlet). Alan, take it away!
NPR has tried to figure out what audio people will share (what it sounds like inside a hurricane, what a prison sounds like), and put it on people’s newsfeeds. But still, videos are shared more widely.
So WNYC came up with a slightly different solution: they made audio clips into short video clips that can be shared on Facebook or Twitter. They call these audiograms.
I followed their instructions and set it up on my Macbook Pro using the Terminal. I barely know how to code, but I do know how to type commands into the Terminal and press enter, and that worked for me.
We recently started making audiograms to promote our shows, and thus far it’s been a fun way to spice up our tweets and Facebook posts. There are several templates to choose from, and you can upload your own pictures, logos and text.
Alan Yu is a reporter at The Pulse, a health and science show from WHYY in Philadelphia. You can follow him on Twitter @Alan_Yu039.
And if you’re interested in audio, check out these previous TFR posts on Soundcite and Pop Up Archive!