One of my tasks at PNAS has been to work on the Science Sessions podcasts. These are interviews with researchers about their work, and are a lot of fun to work on. I’ve done some interviews, and have edited a whole lot more conducted by the other members of the Media team.

You can check them out at the Science Sessions page. I’m also considering putting up a podcast widget at the side of this website.

It’s interesting working on podcasts, it has a lot of similarities with working with text in terms of telling a story, but obviously you have to pay a lot more attention to how things sound. And the interviews are different too–there’s no way to paraphrase, so it becomes even more important to have a good interview. It makes for a nice change from working only with text, although I’d never have guessed I’d get to work on so many podcasts, I’m definitely thankful for the podcast training I received at SciCom!