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Elaine Appleton Grant

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Pushkin's Julia Barton on The Best Audio Storytelling of the Year

6/22/2023 • 41 min

Pushkin Industries VP and Executive Editor Julia Barton had a dream: To create the first-ever anthology of the best audio storytelling. Fittingly, it would be in audiobook form, and it would call out the most powerful and innovative stories of the year. Barton had already been shaping Pushkin's catalogue of successful shows for years — shows like Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell, Against the Rules with Michael Lewis, A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar, and The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos. As a lifelong journalist and editor, Barton is a master of story structure and story editing. She knows (and shares) how to engage listeners. Barton finally realized her dream. Pushkin recently released its first anthology — The Best Audio Storytelling: 2022. We go under the covers on how to craft and perform a great audio essay, with Jason Reynolds' My Mother Made Me; how to make a poetic audio documentary shine, with Erica Heilman's Rumble Strip, and how to be transparent about process, with the hit investigative podcast Will Be Wild (Andrea Bernstein).

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