It’s about examing how the inherently intimate medium of radio shapes the journalistic message, and also about how the medium is changing. Radio is becoming (has become) non-linear and non-broadcast. This has had an effect on its content — moving it away from the immediacy of breaking news and toward the unexplored country of audio journalism that may only be tangentially news-related. Such “future audio” may find itself matched with images (or not) and Internet-distributed (or not). Part of the class was about imagining the ways in which all this could happen.
