LTV LEARNING SERIES:
CREATE YOUR OWN PODCAST!
Podcast creator and producer Tony Dec, in collaboration with LTV, is offering
Create Your Own Podcast!
as a learning series designed to help you tell your stories in this
exciting medium that’s growing day-by-day.
Everybody has stories to tell — what’s yours? You can create a podcast about
anything: whether it’s your own personal interests and commentaries, a marketing
tool for your business, or a way to share insights about our community and neighbors.
PODCAST WORKSHOPS AT LTV
In each of the following sessions, Tony will present the necessary steps for creating a
meaningful and entertaining podcast.
If you are a beginner, July’s three-week section begins
WEDNESDAY 7/19 at 6:00PM. The cost is $120 and includes…
• Develop Your Ideas Into Viable Concepts.
• Essentials of Interviewing & Recording.
• How To Tell Stories for The Ear.
Classes held 7/19, 7/26 and 8/2
If you are ready to accelerate your game, the next four-week section begins
WEDNESDAY 8/9 at 6:00PM. The cost is $160 and includes…
• Basics of Editing & Mixing Sound.
• Add Video to Your Podcast.
• Develop Your Podcast’s Brand & Image.
• How to Distribute and Market Your Podcast.
Classes held 8/9, 8/16, 8/23 and 8/30
OR
text LTVPODCAST2 to 41444
OR TAKE BOTH SESSIONS for a comprehensive experience:
the discounted cost for all seven sessions
in July & August is $210 (a savings of $70).
Students are required to provide their own equipment for these classes!
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT for the JULY sessions:
• iPhone or Android with basic voice memo recording app.
• Wired earbuds: under $20 (wireless bluetooth optional yet not recommended).
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT for the AUGUST sessions:
• iPhone or Android with basic voice memo recording app.
• Laptop: Mac or PC, running current or recent OS.
• Hindenburg.com editing software for Mac and PC, installed prior to first class:
free for 30 days (click on “Trial” button, top left of their web page).
• Wired “over-the-ear” headphones: around $20 or less; prices vary (wireless
bluetooth is NOT recommended).
SEE reBrand.ly/PodcastEquipment for a few low-cost selections.
TONY DEC is long established as a Podcast Strategist & Content Developer, since podcasting began in 2004, and is currently developing content in the new Dolby Atmos spatial audio format for podcasters.
Tony created, launched and led podcasting for Bloomberg News, and has developed content for the Icahn School of Medicine, Conde Nast and TIME magazines. Additionally, Tony’s work includes editing the new Pushkin Industries’ audiobook-podcast “Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life” by The New Yorker writer Michael Specter; the Peabody Award-winning documentary “Leonard Bernstein: An American Life”; and Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin.
From 2018-2022, Tony was a founding co-director and lead instructor of Podcast Fellows at Stony Brook University-Southampton: the world’s first-ever, dualsemester
academic training & development program for aspiring podcasters. Previously, he taught audio journalism for several years at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from Southampton, Tony now lives in
Bridgehampton and is a visual artist and musician.
Info at AirMedia.org/talent/Tony-Dec
