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How To Keep Making Your Podcast ... Even If You're Stuck At Home

Grab some earbuds, a mobile device and as many pillows as you can find. Here are five easy steps to making a great podcast from home.
Source: LA Johnson

Deadline Extension: With so many schools closed because of COVID-19, the NPR Student Podcast Challenge has pushed its deadline back to May 1, 2020.

Like so many people throughout the country, we at NPR's Student Podcast Challenge are working from home right now. And after months of teaching students how to make a homemade podcast, we put our skills to the test: The latest episode of our podcast was recorded from our bedrooms.

We used pillow forts (just like in our !), bulky headphones and special, professional-grade microphones. But don't let the equipment discourage you — with just a couple

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