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''Radio Ambulante'' is a Spanish-language
podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...
which publishes stories about
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
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* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
. It is created primarily by the
Peruvian
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish conquest in th ...
writer
Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and executive producer of '' Radio Ambulante'', an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NP ...
. The first three seasons were launched in 2012, and since 2016, Radio Ambulante has been distributed weekly by
National Public Radio
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.
Format
Radio Ambulante is a narrative podcast based in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, which combines storytelling with investigative journalism.
Among other things, it deals with themes like
human rights
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,
immigration
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, political and socioeconomic crises,
gender identity
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and
mental health
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. It publishes 24 episodes in each season, generally between 25 and 55 minutes; as of May 2019, it had produced almost 140 episodes.
History
In 2007, the
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invited Daniel Alarcón to make a
radio documentary
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about the migration of Peruvians from the
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...
to
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...
. The final product was published in English, and many of the Spanish interviews that he had done weren't used or were doubled over by actors. Later, in an interview with ''The New York Times'', Alarcón recalled being frustrated by having to tell a story from Latin America without more Spanish-speaking people.
The idea to create Radio Ambulante came on January 11, 2011, in San Francisco, according to Alarcón and Carolina Guerrero (the CEO).
Months later, the journalist Annie Correal became the cofounder. They also hired
Martina Castro
Martina Castro is an Uruguayan-American audio journalist, editor, producer, and educator. She is the CEO and founder of Adonde Media, a podcast production company and host of the ''Duolingo Spanish'' and ''The Vivo Songbook Podcasts''. She co-fo ...
as cofounder and sound designer for the podcast, and in January 2012, Camila Segura joined as well.
With a team of five employees and a pilot season, they launched a
Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the first season. The campaign received more than 600 donations, which totaled to over $46,000.
As of 2015, the podcast has 1.5 million annual downloads. In 2016 they joined
National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...
, the public radio station of the United States, and since then the show has had over 5 million annual downloads and a team of 23 employees.
Collaborations
Radio Ambulante has collaborated with other organizations to create content, such as
Radiolab
''Radiolab'' is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. Live shows were first off ...
, Univisión Data,
Soros Justice Fellowship, and the
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
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. They also worked with the writing Silvia Viñas, who also wrote an article for ''The New York Times'' about her experience on the show.
Other projects
Listening Clubs
Listening Clubs are a new project of Radio Ambulante, which were launched in February 2019. The goal is for listeners to meet up and talk about Radio Ambulante episodes and their relationship to the communities surrounding the clubs themselves. The project started in five pilot cities:
New York,
Mexico City
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,
Medellín,
San José, and
Quito. The later founded it in
Bogotá,
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...
,
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, ne ...
and
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
.
Radio Ambulante School
Radio Ambulante School is a space for learning to create in an audio format. It covers the basic principles of podcasting, from how to find a story to record to the basics of Hindenburg Pro, the program used by Radio Ambulante to edit their episodes. Radio Ambulante School also collaborates with Transom.org, an organization which has shared and translated their articles to help for a community of Spanish-speaking journalists.
Podcast Club
The Podcast Club is a private group in
Facebook
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which shares and discusses the episodes of Radio Ambulante every week. They also recommend other podcasts in the regions, good practices for telling stories by audio, or other content related to storytelling or the theme of the current episode. Every week they organize videoconferences with the producers of the episode, or at least with some of the most important people in that week's story.
Awards
* 2014: Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Journalism, in the category of innovation.
* 2017: Simón Bolivar National Journalism Prize, in the category of radio investigative journalism. Episode: "Doctor, is this normal?"
* 2017: Best Foreign Language Award, Third Coast Festival, Episode: "The Cassettes from Exile."
* 2020: Best Spanish Language Podcast,
iHeartRadio Podcast Awards
The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards is a podcast awards show that celebrates podcasts heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's digital music platform. Founded by iHeartRadio in 2019, th ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://radioambulante.org
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2012 podcast debuts
Audio podcasts
American podcasts
Investigative journalism
NPR programs