“What makes you different from your peers who also want to get a job in journalism?

ABC audio producer and digital reporter Wing Kuang is an expert at turning a disadvantage into an asset. Having first come to Australia as an international student, she encountered a lot of barriers to finding a job as a journalist.

She says that community radio provided important opportunities to develop her skills and build a portfolio, and that it was ultimately her social media presence that led to her first job.

“Tweeting had become my only way to make myself known.”

WORK MENTIONED

https://allthebestradio.com/featured/500-retrospective-vanishing-voices/

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/days-like-these/wing-vs-the-machine/101916326

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“The minute I walk into that space, I turn my audio ears on.”

ABC broadcaster Kirsti Melville is an award-winning radio documentary maker, who always starts planning for an audio feature by thinking about sound. Melville describes how she triages the audio in any recording environment, and how she works with sound to create immersive and impactful storytelling.

"I often talk about it in quite filmic terms. Think about it in terms of small close-up sound and broader, wider sound that creates a scene."

WORK MENTIONED

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/earshot/102676508

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/the-ghosts-of-wittenoom---part-one/10635386

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/earshot/the-ghosts-of-wittenoom-part-2/10747390

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“Your voice is such a personal quality…It’s like your own aural fingerprint.”

As an ABC voice coach and journalist, Tamara Oudyn is shaping the diverse voices of the national broadcaster. Here she describes the lessons she teaches cadets, including the role of the 3ps - pitch, pace and pausing - in broadcasting.

Her emphasis is on training young journalists to sound like themselves on air.

“Authority comes from being comfortable in front of a microphone and knowing what you are on about.”

WORK MENTIONED

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/crime-pays-the-mystery-behind-why-we-love-crime-dramas/101742770

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