The radio program at Salt seeks to document and tell the story of Maine's culture, history and landscape through sound while at the same time offering students valuable radio production experience. Students are immersed in Maine and in radio: listening, recording, editing, mixing and more listening, recording and editing.

Utilizing professional recording and production equipment, radio students at Salt learn to produce sound-rich provocative features in the style of National Public Radio. From field recording techniques to narrative development to digital audio editing, radio students leave Salt with an understanding of how to use sound to tell stories.

Student works regularly air on the Public Radio Network in Maine and students have gone on to internships and employment at some of the top production facilities in the nation.

Here is a smattering of what people have been saying about radio at Salt:

"Salt is providing students with an invaluable entree into the craft of radio journalism and audio production. By learning to ask questions of real people, about real life, Salt encourages young journalists to broaden their thinking about what makes a news story and to merge their interests in creative writing with documentary skills. As public radio flourishes around the country, stations are hungry for young journalists with an ear for sound. Salt is well positioned to place students in public radio news departments around the country and to enhance the education of journalism students looking to do their learning in the real world, and not just in the classroom."
-Andrea Deleon, NPR Northeast Bureau Chief

"You are in the epicenter of documentary studies in the United States. This is the place that is spitting out crazy documentarians and spreading the Salt aesthetic. Salt is an American treasure."
-David Isay, Executive Producer, Sound Portraits

You can watch a testimonial from Jamison York, writing/radio alumnus.

Looking for former Salt students' radio pieces? Visit our extensive collection in the Salt Student Gallery.

Or click here to listen to instructor Rob Rosenthal's production, "Portland Reacts to 9/11," a Salt radio project that has been included in the Library of Congress' national archives. The interviews were conducted by students in the Fall 2001 program and the final product was produced by Rob.