Don’t be a “low-rent Ira Glass wannabe”

I asked friends on Facebook for audio visual inspirations, and college pal Katy Aronoff posted the following:

“There are some great examples from NPR of how well-produced audio can tell a story. I know everyone thinks of Ira Glass when this subject comes up, and I’m as big a fan of This American Life as anyone, but there are ways to do this that don’t involve mimicking that formula and sounding like a low-rent Ira Glass wannabe. There’s a guy on WBUR in Boston, David Boeri, who does amazing things with ambient audio within a more traditional NPR-type framework. He has a voice that would make you cry if you heard him read the phone book.”

(Wild West Coasters, before you turn up your noses at another East Coast-centric post, know that this man is true blood Alaska. He’s even gone whale hunting.)

Examples here, here and here.

Let me rephrase that. KENNEDY’S OBIT IS A MUST.