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One of The Advocate‘s own is being urged by our editor to compile his latest investigative work into a podcast, rather than the typical book or spread in The Weekend Betootan lift-out magazine.
Candace Munro, a three-time Gold Walkley winning investigative journalist who’s worked here at The Advocate for two-decades, is tossing up whether to release her latest work as a book through a traditional publisher, with an extract series being published in The Advocate each week or moving into the podcasting medium at the behest of newspaper’s editor, Clancy Overell.
Speaking to our reporter in the designated smoking lunch room at The Advocate’s Daroo Street newsroom, Munro said she ‘didn’t know much’ about recording a podcast but reckons she’s seriously considering making the switch.
“Just look at Hedley Thomas,” she said as she ashed on her lunch plate.
“You think his work into that crime would’ve got the Gold if it was published in the Oz? If it was just another Harper-Collins stocking stuffer? I don’t think so,”
“For the past two years, I’ve been working on exposing the corruption and price fixing within our local opal industry. It goes all the way to the top. There’s evidence to suggest that murder last year in Betoota Heights was tied up in it, too. But at the end of the day, people need to know about this and if podcasting is the best way, then so be it.”
However, our editor Clancy Overell says making a podcast about a true crime is pointless – unless you come up with a smart and catchy name for it.
“That and it has to be voiced by someone with a nice, flowing voice,” he said.
“Too many journalists let their ego get the better of them and they try to voice their own podcasts. Most print journalists have boring voices,”
“But at the same time, it keeps costs down. But anyway, I’m all for Candace making a podcast on the Opal Wars. It should be a cracker. People might actually tune in to it
More to come.
