Podcast Production and Publishing

This unit develops intermediate production, distribution, and promotion skills for podcasting, focusing on editing workflows, metadata, publishing pipelines, and audience-building tools. Students will practice tool-based workflows (Audacity, Descript, FTP/RSS, streaming platforms), recording best practices, and promotional strategies that bridge basic technique and advanced monetization or series production in later units.

Learning Objectives

• Apply audio editing and post-production techniques in Audacity and Descript to produce and export a publishable episode with appropriate sample rates, background music, and ID3 tags.
• Demonstrate organized file management and publishing workflows by implementing a consistent file-naming convention, preparing show notes, uploading via FTP, and validating RSS feed delivery to a streaming host.
• Analyze and implement audience engagement and promotion strategies by publishing to platforms (YouTube, streaming accounts, blogs), fostering comments and forum interactions, and comparing advertising and community-building options.
• Evaluate and integrate recording best practices, hardware (headphones, Røde Wireless PRO), remote-interview techniques, and AI-assisted tools (ChatGPT) to improve pacing, interview quality, and content planning while maintaining ethical standards.