Julia spoke at the 2013 American Society of Journalists and Authors conference about podcasting and the craft of audio.
Julia edits The Life of the Law, a new and unique radio and multimedia project that explores the relationship of law to the experience and meaning of American society and culture.
Julia Barton is one of the great radio reporters and editors. She edited some of my pieces…and I swear every single piece I’ve done since then has been better because of my contact with her. No kidding.
—Roman Mars
By Julia Barton ⋅ May 22, 2012
Like her country, Olena Koshil has been running non-stop for 20 years. At only 32, she manages a TV production company in Kiev. She speaks several languages and has been working in national TV since she was a teenager. In 2004, like many other urban professionals, she became involved in the political upheavals known as the Orange Revolution.
When researcher Steve Swerdlow was on the ground in Uzbekistan in late 2010, Human Rights Watch got a rare glimpse into this isolated, repressive regime. Courageous lawyers, torture victims and their relatives took great risks to tell their stories in a series of audio interviews. Soon after, Human Rights Watch was effectively expelled from the country.
Audio [.mp3] produced by Julia Barton for Human Rights Watch, 12/13/2011.
Why does a country music megastar and all-American guy like Ronnie Dunn — half of what was Nashville’s biggest act, Brooks & Dunn — have a house full of paintings from the Soviet Union? It’s a long story.
