Servant of Pod with Nick Quah What Does a Podcast Editor Do?
Aug 5, 2020
The podcast discusses the crucial role of podcast editors in enhancing storytelling, engaging listeners, and crafting narratives. It highlights the journey of a podcast editor from fact-checking to editing, emphasizing the importance of surprises and emotional impact in storytelling. The conversation also covers promoting diversity in the podcasting industry and empowering future podcast editors.
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Let The Tape Reveal The Twist
- For Murder on the Tow Path they hid JFK's name until a speech clip revealed him, creating a stronger emotional jolt.
- Catherine says hearing the recognizable tape hit harder than naming him first.
From Ivory Tower Plans To The Times
- Catherine moved from aspiring English professor to journalism after a professor noted her conversational skill and curiosity.
- She parlayed persistence and networking into a fact-checking role at The New Yorker and later The New York Times.
Learning To Find The Hidden Moment
- At The New York Times Catherine worked as a fact-checker and then an intermediate editor on Lives and a reporting column.
- Those roles taught her how to elicit intimate moments and how every scene contains a deeper story.