Video Podcasting Essentials with Nick Michael, NPR
Video podcasts are everywhere, but making one that looks sharp, sounds great, and actually connects with an audience takes more than just hitting record. Join Nick Michael, Supervising Producer of Visuals for NPR to learn the building blocks for a professional approach. He’ll discuss principles for a full production workflow: setup/prep, gear recs, recording, editing full episodes, editing vertical clips for social and more. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Nick will be virtual but we will be gathering in person.
Nick Michael is a supervising editor for the Visuals team, where he leads the design and delivery of complex editorial projects. Those projects include NPR-in-a-Minute, which in the span of 18 months piloted over a dozen shortform video series and garnered 1 billion views across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. He also serves as editorial lead for NPR’s foray publishing podcasts to YouTube.
He has co-managed the growth of NPR’s award-winning video team, highlights of which include co-crafting the look of NPR’s signature interviews with President Obama, supervising two seasons of NPR Music’s The Formula and coordinating 22 filmmakers across the country to document 2017’s solar eclipse.
Michael joined NPR in 2014 as the lead video producer for Jazz Night in America, NPR’s first program with companion radio and video content. Jazz Night‘s 2017 portfolio earned a Peabody nomination.
Before NPR, Michael co-founded 1504, a video studio based in Birmingham, Ala. He earned an M.A. in photojournalism from the University of Missouri.