How to Make a Podcast

Want to learn to make a podcast?

The University of King’s College has developed a two-day podcasting workshop that will get you started.

Bring your podcast idea and we’ll help you build a roadmap and show you the tools you need to get there. We cover:

  • Building a show concept
  • Choosing gear
  • Recording and editing
  • Interviewing skills
  • Writing
  • Performance

This is a non-credit professional development workshop. Students will come away with a podcast plan and skills to execute it, along with insights on how to make it com

October 17–18, 2025
University of King’s College, Scotiabank Room
$349+HST (Early bird rate $299+HST)

 

Registration opens soon

 

Instructors

Podcasting instructor Golda Arthur smiling to camera wearing black jacket with wooden necklace and hoop earringsGolda Arthur is an award-winning executive producer and audio journalist in New York City. She began her career in audio at CBC Radio in Canada, where she was a reporter and producer, and went on to produce Newshour, the flagship news program for the BBC World Service in London. She teaches audio at Columbia Journalism School. She’s currently working on season three of her award-winning women’s health podcast Overlooked.

Pauline Dakin is an award-winning podcaster and journalist who teaches all things audio at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing in Halifax. Her CBC podcast Run, Hide, Repeat was the number one podcast in Canada in late 2022, downloaded more than a million times and was named one of the top podcasts of 2022 by Amazon Podcasts. It also won a prestigious New York Festivals award. Pauline is currently hosting and co-producing a new podcast, This is King’s.

Mark Pineo is the audio technician and instructor at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing & Publishing in Halifax. He co-produces the This is King’s podcast with Pauline, and is the technical producer for the university’s audio and podcasting workshops, and The Signal’s audio shows.