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In 2014 the podcast began to generate interest, thanks to the American audio series
Serial
.
From there, it has been gaining more and more popularity, to the point that this year,
the well-known Pulitzer Prizes have added the category of
podcasting
.
The XXI Congress of Journalism of Huesca
, which is being held this week electronically, has wanted to focus on this new tool that is characterized by being able to be heard
how, where and when the listener wants
.
The videoconference, moderated by
Núria Jar
, co-director of the
5W Podcast
, was also attended by
Pablo Romero, Silvia Viñas and Carola Solé
.
"Three years ago
an earthquake
occurred
in Mexico
, and we thought about doing a program for just a few days," Viñas, executive producer of new podcasts on
Radio Ambulante
, has begun by explaining
.
"I could feel that adrenaline when I had so little time to spare," he stressed.
Immediately afterwards, the journalist
Pablo Romero
, editor of Cibersociedad y Defensa in the newspaper
Público
, reviewed his project
The Three Deaths of My Father
, for which he received the
Ondas Award for Best Podcast
in 2018
.
It deals with the investigations carried out by the journalist into the ETA attack that in June 1993 cost his father his life.
"I hadn't planned to create something like that,
I started to publish my research in EL MUNDO and
El Español
to gather more information," Romero recalls.
With this podcast, made up of five chapters of 20 minutes each, he intends to make known "the neglect of institutions at times".
"ETA continues to be used as a weapon thrown by politics," he explained.
Lastly, Carola Solé, author of the podcast 'Volver, five stories about the Catalan crisis' in
Podium Podcast
,
spoke
: "I was a correspondent in Latin America for a long time, and once I returned to my homeland after 10 years
I realized what Catalonia looked little like how it had left it "
, Solé commented.
This project has testimonies from independentistas and non-independentistas, as the journalist has highlighted.
"In polarized times it is very difficult to listen to each other, and with the podcast I thought I could convey that idea," she concluded.
POSTPRODUCTION AS A DIFFERENTIATING FACTOR
During the debate, various topics were addressed, such as the optimal duration of the podcast.
"It has a similar operation to literature in terms of narrative", Solé has highlighted.
"The duration depends on the content that you want to make known,"
Viñas explained.
To which Romero has said that in his case he thought of giving his podcast "a format similar to television series."
Finally, it has been ensured that, unlike traditional radio, the podcast requires greater prior preparation, both pre-production and post-production.
Despite this, one of the ideas they wanted to convey is that both
"should stop seeing themselves as enemies
.
"
David Puente is a student of EL MUNDO's Master of Journalism.
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