SHU Alumna Hosting WSHU’s New Daily Podcast, After All Things

Sabrina Garone will report top news with a lighter tone

Sacred Heart University alumna Sabrina Garone ’18, ’20 is hosting a daily podcast, After All Things, for WSHU radio. The podcast, formerly known as C19, gets its name from its air time, immediately following the afternoon broadcast, All Things Considered.

The C19 podcast highlighted top news of the day within the Connecticut and New York regions. It emphasized stories related to COVID-19 as the pandemic dominated the news throughout 2020 and into this year.

After All Things emulates C19’s concept and reports top news, though it is not as focused on COVID-19. The podcast’s air time ranges between 8 and15 minutes.

While people who want to watch a news broadcast must tune in while it’s on the air, a podcast provides flexibility for people to listen when they have time. “The goal for this podcast is to make our stories more easily accessible to our listeners, so they don't have to tune in live and can listen at their own convenience,” said Garone. “I love that the overall tone of the podcast is a little less serious than the live broadcast, and that I'm free to add my own personality to it. I hope that by doing so, I can attract a younger audience to public radio. And just by it being a podcast, we hope it attracts a younger demographic, since that age group is not necessarily tuning into live radio.”

Garone graduated from Sacred Heart's School of Communication, Media & the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in media arts and a master of arts degree in journalism & media production. She was a Corman Fellow in the WSHU News Fellowship program during her two years in the master’s program.

“It was such an impactful experience for me, because I had the opportunity to try whatever I wanted—reporting, producing, audio engineering, etc. My classes in broadcast journalism and media production were great, of course, but having the opportunity to apply what I was learning in class to real-life situations made the experience for me. And I'm so grateful that the station has kept me around after I finished the program,” said Garone.

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