Broadway Square and podcaster Megan Torgerson (Reframing Rural) will welcome you to The Square's first annual podcasting festival and provide a quick summary of the event's schedule for Friday and Saturday.

Tracy Briggs (The Vault) and Meg Luther Lindholm (Uplifted) will join us to talk about their experiences creating successful podcast series - what challenges they've encountered, what their favorite part of creating podcasts is and how podcasting fits into their daily life. They will also answer audience questions. 

Tracy Briggs is a News, Lifestyle and History reporter with Forum Communications. Tracy began her career as a broadcast journalist - producing, reporting and anchoring the news at WDAY-TV. The love of history stories started then when Tracy did a yearlong series on North Dakota's Centennial in 1989 and another yearlong series, "Our Century" in 1999 about the biggest 20th century news in our region. The following year, the series "Our People" covered notable people in our communities.

Bill Morehouse (Forum Communications) and Bill Thomas (Prairie Public) discuss the role of podcasting in today's media landscape as well as the format's strengths and weaknesses. They will also discuss the resources podcasters need to consider when contemplating starting their own podcast.