Podcast Structure - Justyne Yuen-Lee

           

My podcast begins with general information, so the audience and I are on equal grounds of common knowledge – smoking statistics, effects, etc. Further along in the podcast, however, I introduce people affected by smoking, moving the listeners from the common ground to new information. From this, I open the discussion to the new information learned from my research – the climax of the podcast. Then, I connect this information to what has already been discussed by the interviewees and finally to a conclusion that moved from known information to new information. Because it is new information, it is not level to the common understanding the podcast began with.

This structure follows closely to some Freakonomics shows as it opens the conversation with common knowledge, furthers the conversation with interviews, and concludes with the learned information from the discussion.

I counted 10 oral citations and 24 written citations in the transcript.