[Journalists] Hello!!!

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi Itto,

I'm looking for work and one idea is writing for a news source so I'm on 
this list. I also enjoy interviewing people for stories so I think there is 
a journalist inside me although I'm not officially one.

What do you mean by being an audio journalist? I know the words photo 
journalist which means basically taking photos for the newspapers or blogs.
But what is an audio journalist?

To answer your questions, here is my thoughts.
For writing, it sounds like you have a great system!
Microsoft Word and Google Docs are very common applications and also 
powerful ones too.
I'd stick with that; no need to know other things for word processing unless 
you really want to know more.
For instance, if you use an IPAD or mac for writing a lot, you could learn 
pages, the word processing application for Apple products.
If your work involves outlines and notes, you might want something to 
organize your notes and sinc across devices.
You could use Evernote or OneNote for this.

For a device accessible for recording, there are several ideas.
Can you tell us a bit about what you are looking for? What quality of audio? 
Do you want stereo or mono sound? Does that matter?
Do you want something stand alone? From the sound of it, it sounds like you 
are using a recording feature on an IOS device because you refered to Voice 
over speech and I know this is a screen reader for IOS and macs.

BTW, when I recorded notes on my ipad, I had the same problem. Voice Over 
would interrupt me in the recording and the speech of voice over was 
therefore in the recording. Things like notifications came up and voice over 
just started talking without me even touching the touch screen buttons.

For my recordings, and I did some when I took a journalism class in college 
btw, I used a stand alone digital recorder. I liked this because then my 
screen reader would not interrupt things!
I used an Olympus digital recorder, the dm 520. Many of the menus speak so 
its fairly accessible.  Another high quality recorder is the Eltrinix pro 
recorder. You may want to check into this one as well.

For editting digital audio, I struggle to learn this too and wish you 
success in trying it.

Sincerely,
Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Itto Outini via Journalists
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 9:54 PM
To: journalists at nfbnet.org
Cc: Itto Outini
Subject: [Journalists] Hello!!!

Hello fellow journalists, I hope you are doing well. I am glad to join this 
group. I am an audio-journalist and I have a list of questions:

If you are an audio-journalist, what program do you use to edit, and why? I 
am learning how to use Studio Recorder. I am a beginner but I'm excited to 
become an expert! I also produce written content using Microsoft Word and 
Google Docs. Is there another program that is better than those?

When recording, Voiceover starts interrupting and when plugging the 
microphone I can no longer use Voiceover. Do you know of any device that is 
accessible for recording? Also, is there anywhere for me to train in audio 
production or do you know of anyone who could offer one-on-one services?

I am starting training on how to control soundboard. Have you ever had 
experience with that? Is it accessible and is it possible for me to navigate 
as a blind journalist?  My mentor is sighted and we both are taking this as 
an adventure!

Thank you and have a good day!

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't 
be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's 
thinking." -Steve Jobs Weak people revenge, strong people forgive. 
Intelligent people ignore.
By Albert Einstein

Best regards,
Itto Outini
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