Power to the Podcaster: Finding your audience in a crowded field, Workshop, Overlook East
Podcasting is a powerful way for people with diverse views and experience and limited funds to tell the kinds of stories that are too often ignored. The trouble is, creating a podcast is easy. Finding an audience is hard. Our experienced group of facilitators will give you tips and tricks of the trade and give you small-group advice on how to make your podcast a success.
- Floyd Hall, Media Strategist, Cultural Producer, Writer and Documentarian
Hall has produced over 700 podcast episodes covering Art, Pop Culture, Fashion, Sports, and Technology, and has worked with several arts-related organizations in the Atlanta area, including Woodruff Arts Center/High Museum, Flux Projects, ArtsATL, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and WonderRoot.
- Angeline Hartmann, Media Director, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, podcast host of "INSIDE CRIME with Angeline Hartmann," @angeline_hartmann
An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Hartmann has advocated for crime victims and their families for two decades. In 2013, she began working at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, helping families find their missing loved ones. In her previous role as a correspondent and producer for the iconic television show “America’s Most Wanted,” she worked closely with law enforcement agencies across the country, profiling their most dangerous fugitives and unsolved cases.
- Christina Lee, Atlanta-based Music Journalist, Co-host of WABE and PRX's Bottom of the Map, @minaannlee
Lee writes about hip-hop, with a focus on how it molds Atlanta’s cultural identity and impacts pop culture at large. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pitchfork, and Complex. Her new podcast with Dr. Regina N. Bradley is a passionate exploration of Southern hip-hop culture and its impact on the world.
- Sean Powers, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Director of Podcasting, @seanpowersgpb
As GPB's first director of podcasting, Powers' projects include the station's popular The Credits about the state's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry; The Bitter Southerner Podcast about southern culture; and The Troy Davis Project, an audio play about Davis, who was executed in Georgia in 2011 amid controversy over his innocence. His reporting has earned him a dozen Associated Press awards, two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, five national PRNDI awards, honors from the Atlanta Press Club, and recognition from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
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