Congrats to our mateys in public radio…

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…who got mentioned on the International Talk Like a Pirate Day website for playing pirate-themed music and talking like pirates. WSHU in Fairfield, Conn., and West Virginia Public Radio both observed the holiday. Arrrrrr! Mona, what did you play?

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Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog.

Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

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1 thought on “Congrats to our mateys in public radio…”

  1. Even when speaking like a pirate, radio announcers need to ARRR-ticulate…and aye, even though pirates may prefer ARRR and B music, they also find their way into the classics=) I had help with selections from my mates on the AMPPR email list!

    * Berlioz, The Corsair
    * Herold, Zampa Overture (he gets dragged down to hell at the end of that opera!)
    * von Suppe, Jolly Robbers Overture
    * Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance Overture
    * Korngold, Sea Hawk: Suite
    * Zimmer, Pirates of the Caribbean: Overture
    * Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony: Mvt 1
    * Hanson, Sea Symphony
    * Mendelssohn, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (finally escaping the pirates!)
    * Castelnuovo Tedesco, Sea Murmurs

    In the end, to comfort the landlubbers, I turned away from the sea and left them in the “new world”;) and then came The World, from P-ARRR-I.

    Full day’s playlist here: http://wvpubcast.org/mita.aspx
    (if I’d thought about this beforehand, I would have blogged it…maybe next year=)

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