What's your go-to resource for honing your storytelling skills?

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@Creative Lead OP, it depends! I like This American life for documentary storytelling; Reveal is gripping for longform investigative journalism, and for straight up performative storytelling I love Selected Shorts + can occasionally get behind The Moth. (I also just saw Glenn Washington of Snap Judgment live and he killed it.)

But even stories on All Things Considered or The World are often gripping, especially when you deconstruct them a little. Yesterday on ATC there was an incredibly haunting piece about black lung in Appalachia that hinged entirely on the voice of one miner who had end-stage black lung, telling his story while struggling to breathe.

I have never heard anything like that voice, and the sound of it told the story of how mining companies abuse the health (and trust) of their employees better than the entire rest of the piece. My takeaway there was the art of finding a main character who holds the emotional core of a story, then working outward.

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@IDEO 1, amazing. I wish I could upvote your response more than once. Thank you. 👍🏻

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Good radio. It combines writing, sound, and even visuals (to be effective for me, radio needs to paint a picture) - all in one intimate form.

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@IDEO 1, can you give an example of "good radio?" I immediately think of something like RadioLab, Reply All, etc.

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Watching stand up comedians.

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