Going live is one of the trickiest skills for any audio journalist to master. In this episode, NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep draws on his decades behind the mike to outline some of his top strategies for going live.

Show notes
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Morning Edition
https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/

To Escape Civil War, Many Yemenis Flee to Djibouti
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839290/to-escape-civil-war-many-yemenis-flee-to-dijibouti

Yemeni Refugees Cross Gulf of Aden to Seek Safety in East Africa
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/595967396/yemeni-refugees-cross-gulf-of-aden-to-seek-safety-in-east-africa

Why Yemen’s War Mostly Remains Out of News Headlines
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/19/594839325/why-yemens-war-remains-mostly-out-of-news-headlines

US Fast Tracks Missile Defence System to East Asia, Drawing China’s Ire
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/09/519369095/u-s-fast-tracks-missile-defense-system-to-s-korea-drawing-chinas-ire

Insurgents in Nigeria Release Most of the Girls Abducted Last Month
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791356/insurgents-in-nigeria-release-most-of-101-schoolgirls-abducted-last-month

Major Breaks in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/177928415/major-breaks-in-boston-marathon-bombing-case

Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa

Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.

Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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