Podcast: “This American Life” it is not a product, it is the person

Snapshot of "it is not the product, it is the person" on The American Life. Ten-year-old entrepreneur Asia Newson, photographed by Doug Coombe.
Snap­shot of “it is not the prod­uct, it is the per­son” on The Amer­i­can Life. Ten-year-old entre­pre­neur Asia New­son, pho­tographed by Doug Coombe.

Recent­ly, I lis­tened to a pod­cast for the first time in Amer­i­ca. When I was in Chi­na, I rarely lis­tened to the pod­cast. There are only a few sources that offer Chi­nese pod­casts. How­ev­er, my friends and I always lis­tened to the pod­cast on the iPhone, through the “pod­cast” appli­ca­tion. The pod­cast about the bas­ket­ball, ani­mals and musics were our favorites. I am not famil­iar with the pod­cast in Amer­i­ca, but when I went to the web­site “the Amer­i­can Life”, I was attract­ed by many inter­est­ing sto­ries and oth­er knowl­edge­able sources.

The top­ic I chose from the “The Amer­i­ca Life” named “it is not the prod­uct, it is the per­son” which talked aboutPlan­et Mon­ey reporter Zoe Chace about the day she spent with an 11-year-old entre­pre­neur named Asia New­son, who has a com­pa­ny called Super­Busi­ness Girl. The host of this pod­cast is Ira Glass. I chose this one because it was engag­ing, the title was attrac­tive and inter­est­ing, and that made me want to lis­ten to the whole act. I went to the web­site of the “the Amer­i­can Life” by using the lap­top and also found this pod­cast, “Radio Archive”.

The advan­tage of lis­ten­ing to pod­cast is that you just need to lis­ten. You don’t have to use your eyes, so when I lis­tened to this pod­cast, I was able to eat my din­ner at the same time. I think lis­ten­ing to the pod­cast is a way to relax myself. Because that pod­cast was very won­der­ful, I lis­tened to the oth­er pod­casts as well, which were post­ed on the web­site. Those pod­casts includ­ed ” The secret record­ings of Car­men Segar­ra” and “Ori­gin Sto­ry 2014″, both host­ed by Ira Glass as well.

I would like to pro­duce pod­casts as a jour­nal­ist, because it is a easy way to get the infor­ma­tion. Also, peo­ple can do oth­er things at the same time, it is an impor­tant rea­son why there are so many peo­ple lis­ten to the pod­casts. How­ev­er, I will not pay more atten­tion on it, because I think the visu­al media is the future of the jour­nal­ism. Peo­ple are more will­ing to watch the news by their eyes.

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