About this Event
Siobhán McHugh is an award-winning podcast producer, critic, consultant and academic. Her book, The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories Through Sound (UNSW Press 2022), hailed by a peer reviewer as ‘invaluable… the first comprehensive book on storytelling podcasts’, is a critique of podcasting as a new medium and growing industry, as well as a practical guide to making compelling narrative podcasts. A Columbia University Press edition is due October 2022.
Siobhán was consulting producer on Phoebe’s Fall , Wrong Skin, The Last Voyage of The Pong Su, investigative journalism podcasts that all won gold at the New York Radio Festivals, and on The Greatest Menace, a queer history podcast dubbed ‘Australia’s S-Town’, which won Best Social Justice Podcast and two other awards at New York Festivals 2022.
Siobhán founded RadioDoc Review, the first journal of critical analysis of audio stories. She is also podcast critic at large for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2022, she founded the Hub for Innovation in Podcasting, a coalition of podcast researchers, creators, fans and industry, who will pool ideas and resources to develop podcasting as an art form, extension of journalism and new medium. She is Honorary Associate Professor at University of Wollongong (Journalism) and the University of Sydney (Media/Communications).
This event is also available for our virtual audience:
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Event venue & nearby stays
Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
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