Radio Diaries: DIY Handbook

The Radio Diaries DIY Handbook is a storytelling guide to making great radio with chapters on interviewing, editing, technical advice, and journalistic principles. The Handbook is used by both professionals and enthusiasts, and by media and journalism programs around the country. Since 1996, Radio Diaries has been giving people tape recorders and working with them to report on their own lives and histories. The non-profit organization has collaborated with teenagers and octogenarians, prisoners and prison guards, gospel preachers and bra saleswomen....and along the way helped pioneer a new form of citizen journalism. Radio Diaries award-winning documentaries can be heard on NPR, This American Life and the Radio Diaries Podcast.