Media Training and Story Making

Wyeth Ruthven
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Welcome to Media Training and Story Making. I'm your host, Wyeth Ruthven, I teach people the skills to tell their own stories. I've been a media trainer for ten years, a political operative for twenty years and story teller my whole life. I believe two things about podcasts. First, most podcasts are too long. Second, most podcasts are too topical. Media Training and Story Making is committed to podcasts that are less than 20 minutes in length. Each episode contains a media training tip, a book review, a story, and an interview. You can listen to these episodes at any time, and any order.

Episodes

  1. 06/25/2024

    Tip: Message Diamond. Book: Good To Great. Story: The 1940 Census Is Wrong

    On the menu today: A media training tip about how to use a message diamond to structure your answers, a book review of Good to Great by by James C. Collins, and  a story sexism in the U.S. Census.

    8 min

  2. 06/22/2024

    Tip: Elements of Effective Storytelling. Book: Code Girls. Story: Orangeburg County Sheriff.

    On the menu: a media training tip about the elements of effective storytelling, a book review of Code Girls by Liza Mundy,  a story about a missing sheriff in South Carolina, and an interview with BLANK.

    7 min

  3. 06/19/2024

    Tip: Feeling/Problem/Solution. Book: Act of Congress. Story: Twitter Diplomacy

    On the menu today: A media training tip about the three elements of effective advocacy, a book review of Act of Congress by Robert Kaiser, and a story about the launch of the first Twitter account in the Washington diplomatic corps.

    8 min

  4. 06/15/2024

    Tip: Body Language. Book: Digital Diplomacy. Story: Kay Hagan

    On the menu: A media training tip about effective body language, a book review of Digital Diplomacy, Edited by Andreas Sandre, and a story about swimming in the Senate Pool.

    6 min

  5. 07/29/2021

    Tip: Visualizing Statistics Guest: Alex Karjeker

    On the menu today: A media training tip on how to visualize statistics, a book review of When the Tea Party Came to Town by Robert Draper, a story about the islands of the Indo-Pacific, and an interview with Alex Karjeker, political strategist and blogger at TexasPlenty.com.

    16 min

  6. 07/26/2021

    Tip: Voice & Accent Guest: Pablo Manriquez

    On the menu today: A media training tip on non-verbal communication, a book review of What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan, a story about election night in Mexico, and an interview with Pablo Manriquez, Congressional Correspondent for Latino Rebels and La Politica Online

    16 min
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About

Welcome to Media Training and Story Making. I'm your host, Wyeth Ruthven, I teach people the skills to tell their own stories. I've been a media trainer for ten years, a political operative for twenty years and story teller my whole life. I believe two things about podcasts. First, most podcasts are too long. Second, most podcasts are too topical. Media Training and Story Making is committed to podcasts that are less than 20 minutes in length. Each episode contains a media training tip, a book review, a story, and an interview. You can listen to these episodes at any time, and any order.

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