Audio
I make podcasts, radio and other audio content. My work has been published by Google, ABC, Channel Ten, Monocle, Bauer Media, Newscorp, The Wheeler Centre, the Australian Centre for Public History, 2SER and the Digital Writer’s Festival.
I am skilled in all stages of audio production. I excel in interviewing and hosting. I am a capable executive producer and scriptwriter. I have an advanced understanding of the podcast ecosystem. I offer workshops and individual consulting on best practise for podcast distribution and promotion.
As a Senior Producer for History Lab, an investigative history podcast from the Australian Centre for Public History, I have produced award-winning episodes. History Lab won a silver award in the 2019 New York Festivals Radio Awards and was shortlisted in the 2020 NSW State Library Premier’s History Awards.
I co-produced Brain on Nature, a critically acclaimed documentary podcast that examines the relationship between the natural world and the human brain.
I have made a range of branded content, for companies including Xero, Woman’s Day, CMC Markets, and NGOs including Cufa (an international development agency).
I was the executive producer and host of Fourth Estate, 2SER’s weekly media analysis radio show and podcast, for 2017. I am one half of a regular podcast on language and idioms called The Expressionists.
What’s in a name? is a short series I created that explores how our identity relates to our surname.
I am a regular commentator on ABC Radio National’s Download This Show where I talk about technology, the internet, media and digital culture.
The Conspiracy Virus
The Conspiracy Virus looks at the proliferation of misinformation and conspiracy theory, through two topical and vitally important issues: vaccines and climate change. The series reveals the diverse reasons people come to distrust science and mainstream media, and the complex networks of information that draw people deeper in. While social media is undoubtedly a major factor exacerbating the spread of misinformation and conspiracy, there are hidden forces that sow doubt and give legitimacy to falsehoods that extend back beyond the creation of the internet.
ABC Radio National – Steely Women
In July 1980 Australian history was made when a group of blue collar women took on BHP. The women wanted to work alongside the men at the Port Kembla steel works. And so began the nation’s longest running anti-discrimination case. The protest was unprecedented. 40 years later, the triumphant women tell their story.
History Lab – Reading the Signs
The signature is one of the most fundamental tools used by the law to authenticate or identify a person. But strangely, the law struggles to define what exactly a signature is. I wrote and produced this episode of History Lab that looks at how Australia’s legal system has been inconsistent in how it has interpreted signatures of Indigenous people.
History Lab – In Case I Die in This Mess
Death, money and family are the key elements in any last will and testament. But they make for a killer cocktail that unleashes a special force not present in any other part of the law.
I wrote and produced this episode of History Lab that looks at how the law determines your last wishes through some truly unusual cases.
Brain on Nature
I am co-producer of the podcast Brain on Nature. The six-part narrative documentary presents science and research around the relationship between of nature and the human brain. Brain on Nature is an independent self-funded podcast. We have received widespread critical acclaim across the world.
I could just not go – KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race
I produced this piece with Jason L’Ecuyer for KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race in 2019. It’s a short piece on what it’s like to find out you have cancer, then fight it.
“You’re going to have to have chemo, but it’s going to be pretty chill. That’s the way he sold it to me”.
Google and Queerstories- My Mother’s Kitchen
My Mother’s Kitchen is a kind of deconstructed podcast cum roll-a-ball game mashup that centres on stories from the childhood kitchens of eight LGBTQI+ individuals. I produced it in partnership with Maeve Marsden’s Queerstories and Google’s Creative Lab.
Google – featuring Indigenous women on the Assistant for NAIDOC week 2018
For NAIDOC week 2018, I conducted interviews with prominent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and produced the audio to feature their stories on the Google Assistant.
Jenn White on making ‘Making Oprah’ and the future of audio
Jenn White, host of the recent NPR podcast Making Oprah, stopped by the 2SER studio to talk podcasts, public media and the future of on-demand audio. Hosted by Olivia Rosenman.