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Podcasting at UMass Student Perspectives

Student Responses to Podcasting

From Journalism 392W Writing for the Web students (provided by BJ Roche):

“We’re using a medium that’s far more friendly to this generation.”
“It’s portable and ready to go.”
“You can take it in at your leisure, when you’re most receptive to information.”
“As journalists, we’ll probably end up doing things like this, so good to learn how to work with audio.”
“Fairly easy to make one.”

Additional comments from Professor Roche: “It’s also easy to send parents the links so they can “hear” the students’ work. Increasingly, journalists are being asked to work “cross platform,” for print, audio and video. These students are learning to do that. We have a course next semester in narrative news podcasting.”

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