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Ask the Engineer By Flawn Williams and Tom Krymkowski

Flawn Williams and Tom Krymkowski have traveled the globe as multi-media engineers/journalists. Both have served as Technical Advisors on our Next Generation Radio projects all over the country since 1999. Flawn is the co-author of two textbooks on how to craft public radio journalism: “Sound Reporting” and “Telling the Story.” Tom is currently a filmmaker, a video editor and producer and audio mix engineer based in San Francisco.

Below are a list of technical questions written by people who visit this part of the next gen website. We had Flawn or Tom answer them.

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Flawn Williams is an award-winning recordist and production engineer for NPR. He spent several years as Technical Director of All Things Considered, and is now TD of NPR's Music and Entertainment programs. His work can frequently be heard on NPR/National Geographic's "Radio Expeditions" documentary coproductions. He's also active as a trainer and consultant for many public radio organizations and independents, and was the Technical Editor for "Sound Reporting", NPR's radio journalism textbook. Each August he teaches singing at the Augusta Heritage Center in West Virginia, and he can often be heard in the Washington Revels' December pageants.

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