Radio Ambulante and the tradition of narrative podcast in American radio journalism
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2021.77031Abstract
This paper presents a discussion of narrative podcasts based on the analysis of Radio Ambulante, a Spanish language radio show created in the United States in 2011. The research aims to demonstrate that the emergence of the narrative podcast is strongly linked to the tradition of National Public Radio (NPR), the American public radio network founded in 1970. The article presents a brief history and examples of NPR radio shows that became fundamental in the development of the podcast’s journalistic tradition. In addition, it highlights the Radio Ambulante project as one of the most representative examples of this tradition in a foreign language. In this essay, two episodes of this podcast are analyzed: “Las Hijas de Maria Sen?orina” and “Mais Me?dicos”, productions of 2018 totally or partially dedicated to Brazil that had their audio transcribed in Portuguese.
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