And then record yourself with the other one so we can get good, clean sound.
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How do we actually record interviews with our far-flung Times correspondents around the world? |
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With a cell phone. Two cell phones, actually. |
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The quality of audio from a cell phone call is notoriously poor — it sounds distant and staticky. You really don't want to listen to it for 25 minutes. |
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But everybody has a cell phone, making it our best option. So we ask guests to make use of the voice recorder built into their phones. |
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They hold one phone to their left ear, the other to the right. One is used for a regular phone call, to speak to me for the interview. The other is used to capture the guest's side of the conversation using the phone's internal voice recorder. (That phone is placed on airplane mode to avoid pesky interruptions.) |
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At the end of the interview, guests send us the recording by email, and we match it up to the studio recording of my side of the interview. Voilà! You have a "Daily" interview. |
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The process produces surprisingly high-quality recordings. |
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Whenever we can, we send producers with professional microphones to record guests in faraway places. But when we can't, because of tight deadlines or logistics, we deploy the two-phone system. |
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It sounds — and no doubt looks — funny, these reporters with two phones to their face, but it works. |
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"They say our people were born on the water. When it occurred, no one can say for certain. Perhaps it was in the second week or the third, but surely by the fourth, when they had not seen their land or any land for so many days that they lost count." |
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Nikole Hannah-Jones says these words at the beginning of our special multipart audio series "1619," which debuts on "The Daily" on Tuesday, Aug. 20. On that day 400 years ago, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the British colony of Virginia. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. So on the anniversary of that fateful moment, we're finally telling the story of who we are as a country. |
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Who: Julia Simon, audience & operations |
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Living in New York City, it takes work to find nature. I do everything I can to take in pockets of it — count the trees on my walk to the subway, or stare at the water while riding my bike along the Hudson (I know, I should probably look straight ahead). But I hadn't really considered why I did things like that until I found a four-part audio series from Outside magazine on how spending time in nature matters for our well-being. One episode focuses on the growing movement of health care providers prescribing time outdoors, and another is about how experiencing awe in nature expands your understanding of the world as a whole. I had serendipitously pressed play on my favorite of the series, "Why a Walk in the Woods Cures the Blues," while strolling through Fort Greene Park. As I listened to the story about the calming effect of "bathing" in forest trees, I found myself doing a new thing — I stopped hurrying along. Instead, I took off my sandals and sat on the grass. I looked up at the leaves and watched the squirrels, and then I felt something powerful. It's hard to describe that feeling, but for a moment, the skyscrapers and city noises fell away. |
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Monday: The progressive wing of freshmen House Democrats has gotten the lion's share of attention. But the party's moderates may hold the path to power. Meet one of them. |
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Thursday: "From what our reporting shows, most are still in the camps." Paul Mozur on how China continues to mislead the world on its mass internment of Uighurs. |
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That's it for The Daily newsletter. See you next week. |
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