Celeste Kaufman, Author at Timber.fm

Your Podcast Sounds Bad Unless You Do These Hundred Simple Tricks

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Marissa Melnyk, Super Producer

Behind the scenes with a self-taught, tech-loving, comedy podcast producer

When Marissa Melnyk was in school for video broadcasting at Ryerson University, she noticed her classes were split into two groups. There were those who wanted to be in front of the camera—that was the much larger group—and there were […]

Producer Spotlight Comedy

October 4, 2021 by Celeste Kaufman

Podcast Producer Alexandra DiPalma. Featured.

The producer of the hit show Food 4 Thot reveals her secret sauce.

“She’s our lighthouse, and has a knowledge of her craft that is simply mind blowing.”—Tommy Pico The want ad read “gay podcast looking for gay people,” and Alexandra DiPalma knew it was her ticket out of the branded audio content […]

Producer Spotlight

August 24, 2021 by Celeste Kaufman

One of the Best Serialized Documentary Creators in the World

Zac Stuart-Pontier Explains His Approach to Storytelling Across Several of His Well-known Works

“There it is. You’re caught.” So begins the final scene of The Jinx, a show that ushered in the modern era of true crime docuseries yet hinges on this jaw-dropping 90 seconds of audio while the camera is trained on […]

Film, Literature, and Podcasts Producer Spotlight

May 4, 2021 by Celeste Kaufman

Podcasts Must Find the Small Moments to Give Life to Big Secrets

How Dani Shapiro makes guests' secrets come to life on her memoir anthology show Family Secrets

As Dani Shaprio finished up the manuscript for her memoir, Inheritance, people kept telling her their secrets. The book was about her shocking discovery—after submitting her DNA to a genealogy website—that her father was not actually her biological father, and […]

Society and Culture

December 7, 2020 by Celeste Kaufman

The Podcast Season of the Witch

Podcasting and the witchcraft boom, a witch's brew of cause and effect

Folklorist Cory Hutcheson, co-host of the New World Witchery podcast, is quick to point out that while witchcraft may be enjoying a resurgence in cultural relevance, it’s been both revered and reviled in our society forever. Every mode of storytelling […]

Religion and Spirituality

October 27, 2020 by Celeste Kaufman

Lina Misitzis. Featured.

This one time Lina won a Pulitzer with the same Ira Glass
who had not hired her a few years before

The night of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize ceremony, Lina Misitzis and her colleagues at This American Life were together only as squares on a video call, sheltering in place around the country as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on. Their episode, […]

Producer Spotlight

September 2, 2020 by Celeste Kaufman