Working: How Normal Gossip Producer Alex Sujong Laughlin Helps Shape the Podcast

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🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Working producer Cameron Drews talks to Alex Sujong Laughlin, producer of the hit podcast Normal Gossip. In the interview, Alex explains what a producer does and talks about how important it is for producers to have creative input. Then she digs into the process behind Normal Gossip and shares how she and host Kelsey McKinney anonymize the gossip stories and make decisions about which details to tweak and which ones to keep. After the interview, Cameron and co-host June Thomas talk more about what it’s like to be a podcast producer. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Alex shares her favorite and least favorite production tasks. She also tells a story about a listener email that she and Kelsey received. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. -- Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	While we pause the podcast, let's get personal.
0:03.6	How are you picked to do him?
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0:37.2	I think the most important thing if you are in a sort of more
0:41.2	quote unquote invisible role is like, are you feeling valued?
0:45.2	Are you feeling heard and seen and listened to by the people you're collaborating with?
0:50.8	And if you are, that feels worth it to me.
0:57.2	Welcome back to working. I'm your host, June Thomas.
1:00.9	And I'm your other host, Cameron Druse.
1:03.0	Cameron Druse, wait, you're our producer.
1:05.4	Oh, I am.
1:08.4	Is there no end to your talents, Cameron?
1:10.5	You are indeed our amazing producer.
1:13.3	And this week you also did the interview that's at the center of the show.
1:17.3	Who did you speak with?
1:18.8	June, you are too kind to answer your question.
1:22.7	The voice we heard at the top of the show was that of Alex Sujung Laughlin.
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