Jesse Staniforth, Author at Timber.fm

Your Podcast Sounds Bad Unless You Do These Hundred Simple Tricks

Podcasting as Teaching

Classroom Principles to Engage Listeners

“If you like our show, please give us a rating on iTunes, it really helps us get the word out,” says the podcaster—whichever podcaster. Listeners have heard a variation of this line hundreds of times. Perhaps now and then they’ve […]

Career Podcasters Film, Literature, and Podcasts

November 4, 2021 by Jesse Staniforth

Move Over Public Media
Now is the Golden Age of Independent Podcasting

As audio shifts from radio to podcasting, legendary public media producer Jay Allison says the human voice still matters most

Sometime back in the 80s or 90s, Jay Allison invented podcasting. His scheme was simple: there was a lot of really interesting radio airing at times he couldn’t listen, so he connected a VCR and microphone to his radio and […]

Career Podcasters Producer Spotlight

September 8, 2021 by Jesse Staniforth

What It Sounds Like When People Connect

Why Erica Heilman’s Rumble Strip Conversations Sound Like No One Else’s

Pick an episode of Erica Heilman’s independent podcast Rumble Strip. Odds are, one of the first things you’ll notice is the intimacy of the conversations. Rumble Strip is usually composed of one-on-one interviews, but even in group interviews or solo […]

Career Podcasters Society and Culture

March 9, 2021 by Jesse Staniforth

Shannon Cason Gets Honest

You'll hang on his every word when you start your guaranteed binge listen

For new listeners to Shannon Cason’s Homemade Stories, it might be worth going as far back as 2014’s “Bath House” episode. In that story Cason, a straight man, explains why he went to a bathhouse with a gay friend: he […]

Fiction Entertainment Comedy

November 23, 2020 by Jesse Staniforth