Way back when I walked uphill both ways to my first job at a local public radio station… I liked to experiment with narrator-less first-person style packages. This was an early effort: Office/Gallery, a profile of an artist/insurance salesman who curated art exhibits in his office on the down low.
Studio 360 re-ran it three times. Then I posted it on PRX, which was an online distribution site for pubradio-style audio content, back before there were podcasts.
Fast-forward a few years… as podcasts bloom and wither, public radio programs are born and die… Until yesterday, when my ancient story ran again, more than a decade later, on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth.
There’s nothing like an evergreen package that can run over and over again — a producer’s dream! But I probably got paid no more than $400 for that story. Too bad there’s no residuals for underpaid public radio reporters!