Lipscomb students had the opportunity to hear from Nashville Public Radio’s Emily Siner at the Media Masters event Monday evening.
Siner is the news director at Nashville Public Radio and the host of the Movers & Thinkers podcast. Students received free pizza for attending the event.
Siner started her career as a reporter, but then she came up with the idea to do a podcast. One podcast idea that Emily wanted to do was on the topic of death and dying.
“I’m really fascinated how people are drawn to certain careers and how those professions shape the way that they see the world,” she said.
“I often interview three people at once, all about the same topic, that I am just personally fascinated by and I’ll find three people whose work falls under that but in different ways.”
This is exactly what she did. She spoke to three people who work in fields adjacent to death and dying about how they got to where they are.
Siner was recently named the Associated Press Radio Journalist of the Year and has received three regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for her reporting.
Students asked Siner throughout the evening about her career and for stories from her podcasts. But she wanted students to grasp the importance of editing audio. She said that this is something “that will make or break your podcast.” She also told students that, “expensive equipment isn’t necessary, your iPhone will work just as well, just make sure you’re in a quiet room.”
As the evening came to a close, Siner encouraged students to take pride in their audio.
“We try to stand out, we deliver really high quality stuff, we edit the podcast really highly, and we don’t put out anything that we would feel uncomfortable attaching our name to.”
Lumination Radio director Cavin Jacobson emceed the event.