Learning about Podcasts with Crystal Ligori

Photo by M. Rechner


By Jaden Schiffhauer

For a couple of classes every year, the Lincoln High School introductory mass communications class is visited by Crystal Ligori, an accomplished voice actor and newscaster. We were taught how to create and edit audio for the purpose of creating podcasts together.

Ligori spent some time informing the class of her experiences in her career. We listened to her radio Thanksgiving commercials and she told us how she first got started in her main field of public broadcasting. Being able to learn about the interview process for radio was very interesting, and the fact that she was persistent in finding a job there proved to us the power of determination.

After the introduction, she taught how to edit our voices and make podcasts. We learned how to add sound to our voices, even our volume, and cut out things people wouldn’t want to hear to streamline the audio.

I very much enjoyed being able to learn from Ligori, as her lectures and hands-on teaching highlighted aspects of a career many of us wouldn’t have known about otherwise.