Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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Since 1973, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has taught students from all over the United States and around the world to become skilled documentarians and storytellers. At the core of Salt is a 24/7 15-week experience. Motivated individuals from all walks of life come to Salt to focus on documentary storytelling, develop new skills, and build expertise. Our faculty members are working documentarians and teaching professionals who help provide a strong foundation for students to make their best work. 

Series

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59 Pieces

The SaltCast was a bi-weekly podcast produced from 2008-2010, aimed at pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, Saltcast explored the ins-and-outs of radio production. If you want to hear more Salt radio work, including that produced by more recent students, check out http://www.prx.org/group_accounts/1185-salt !


Pieces

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Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Dr VootYin survived the Cambodian genocide as a child and has gone on to become a leading scientist in the field of cardiac regeneration.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Nine year old Gary Hayman ran away from a Rhode Island mental hospital in 1952 and sparked the biggest manhunt in state history.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
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With a bizarre hobby comes bizarre stories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Tatiana Whitlock is a firearms instructor who believes in real world situational learning.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:57
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1987, russians and americans rafted together in siberia as teammates for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
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After months on strike, FairPoint Communications workers reflect on going back to work.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:19
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A man named Jim Deans arrives in Rockland, Maine to set up a recording studio in the back of the old American Legion Hall, but where did he come fr...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
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Karen Evans, a former patient of a mental institution called AMHI, is trying to honor people who died there.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Joan Llorente grew up on a zoo. Today, she remembers her childhood with pictures and clippings.

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1