As a Journalism and Media Studies major, knowledge of audio editing will enhance my ability to get a job. My aspirations are to have a career in journalism, specifically in the broadcast medium. In today’s world, journalists are often responsible to do their own editing and remote production. Ideally, these reporters should have the skills to serve as a “one-man team” and go on location at a moment’s notice to get a story. In addition to television broadcast, the Internet has opened a plethora of other journalistic opportunities for reporters to pursue, such as personal blogs and YouTube videos. Therefore, it is important to have audio editing skills.
The Audacity program offers an easy tool to provide professional audio editing. Through Audacity, a journalist is able to record audio, select soundbites, and control noise level. This would be very useful during interviews in busy locations, or where there are competing sounds. It would also be useful to hone in on particular soundbites that will compliment a story, such as the sound of bees humming if the journalist was covering a story on beekeeping. This ability improves the news story and makes it more relevant to the audience.
As shown in the tutorial, the user can manipulate their voice to eliminate any imperfections, as well as improve overall tone quality. In only a few easy steps, the instructor was able to provide a recording that sounded professional without the use of a studio. Therefore, Audacity is a valuable audio editing tool for journalists in the field. They can perform spot editing and uplink the recording immediately to the studio. Everything moves quickly in the news industry, so the journalists who can provide complete packaged stories rapidly will be the most successful.
Audio editing gives journalists a competitive edge in the cut-throat world of news reporting.
October 3, 2015 at 12:58 pm
As a broadcast journalism major I agree with you that having knowledge of audio editing would be extremely useful to you. Your whole job would exist on a camera and being able to edit the audio of these clips would be beneficial.
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October 4, 2015 at 3:00 am
I agree and think that audio editing would be extremely beneficial for your future as a broadcaster. I like the photo you chose with the man’s hand holding a microphone, I think the orange colors are visually appealing against the white background.
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October 4, 2015 at 8:24 am
Hey I really enjoyed your post regarding the Audacity program, and how it is quite useful in getting rid of background noise. You also mention that you can filter out noises in ranges that you do not desire to have, which I also saw in the video but was a little unclear about until you mentioned it. Thanks for your post it was quite helpful. Also, your banner looks great, I tried to get mine to look a little better aesthetically but yours blows mine out of the water.
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October 4, 2015 at 2:25 pm
Sam, as someone who also plans to pursue broadcasting as a job in the future, I agree with you when you said you believe having skills in audio editing and will be extremely useful to you in the future. Although I do not have much background with this area, I have heard of audacity as a program that people frequently use to edit audio and other things and I look forward to working with it in the future. Keep up with the good work on your blog!
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