Episode 24 – Jess O’Callaghan

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December 15, 2020

Professional podcast producer and Audiocraft festival manager, Jess O’Callaghan, joins us to discuss trends in podcasting, how to reimagine real life events when they can’t be IRL, and tips for podcasting from home.  

Links to topics discussed:

• Audiocraft Festival and Agency

• ABC Radio National Fictions

• New York Times podcast Together Apart

• SYN Media

• This American Life x Planet Money episode: “The Giant Pool of Money“

• Third Coast’s podcast Re:Sound

• Report: “The podcast ecosystem is comprised of distinct ‘neighbourhoods'”

• Passer Vulpes Productions

• Supernatural Sexuality podcast

• Nym’s Nebulous Notions podcast

• Richard’s Famous Food Podcast

• Alex Laughlin’s Twitter

• Transom.org

• Bello Collective: “Remote Audio Recording Guide Zencastr”

• Zencastr

• Reaper

• Hindenburg

• Report: Voxnest “COVID-19’s Impact on Podcast Listening”

Shout Out to:

• Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast

• Who?Weekly podcast

Jess O’Callaghan is Festival Manager and podcast producer at Audiocraft, and producer at ABC Radio National Fictions. She has worked on news and documentary programs across commercial, community and public radio as well as independent podcasts. She likes crafting strong narratives in audio journalism, conjuring new worlds with audio fiction and strives to achieve omniscience by listening to all your podcasts.