Feet in 2 Worlds brought back our virtual workshops focused on audio journalism techniques, “Interviewing for Audio” — a two-day course. In our recruitment for the workshop, we encouraged journalists to apply for this free workshop opportunity at a time when many folks in our industry are experiencing layoffs or difficulty finding work. We asked all participants to fill out an exit survey after the workshop. Here are some key quotes from that survey:

“The most valuable part of the workshop for me was going over how to use a mic, the interactive exercises during that section, and the notes on interview questions. I will carry the training on asking good fact/feeling questions and how to structure an interview into my work in all forms, be it audio or video or print.”

“My Zoom H6 would probably still be sitting in a bag somewhere if it weren’t for this workshop. I bought it a couple years ago and never touched it until the weekend exercise. That alone says a lot.”

“Beyond the technical stuff, the workshop gave me space to see audio not as something secondary to my photography, but as its own form of documentation.”

“The most valuable part was learning how to really sit with my own work and analyze it. Listening closely to my recordings, I started catching details I would’ve completely missed otherwise.”

For newsrooms interested in doing their own audio workshops, we suggest developing a virtual curriculum first — and then scaling up from there. Test, test, test! We have approached our workshops as smaller-scale, highly designed experiments that we continue to tweak and tinker with depending on how each round goes and on the feedback that we get from participants.

Fi2W’s Managing Editor, Quincy Surasmith, was central to the success of our workshops. He has led the charge with developing them and has put a lot of thought and consideration into the curriculum, accessibility, and what is needed from participants. As one workshop participant put it, “Quincy, you have a way of making concepts feel accessible and easy to pick up, the way you move through examples and keep the energy going made three hours feel like nothing.”

Contributed by Mia Warren

Cite this article

Warren, Mia (2026, June 2). Feet in 2 Worlds. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/feet-in-2-worlds/