Ambatch Systems have launched a new free Podcast Directory named ‘2Podcast’. The directory offers access to audio stories, summaries of top headlines from papers and syndicated video, according to Ambatch Systems.


Ambatch Systems have launched a new free Podcast Directory named ‘2Podcast’.

The directory offers access to audio stories, summaries of top headlines from papers and syndicated video, according to Ambatch Systems.

Press Release

The following is the press release submitted to IMNewswatch:

“The Web has opened many different avenues for everyone, including print journalists. One of the many positive things the Web allows print journalists to do is produce broadcast content for the community, and that is exactly what Evergreen Newspapers Inc. has done.

We’ve launched a site where the community can access audio stories, summaries of the top headlines from our papers and some great syndicated video.

All you have to do is visit 2Podcast.net and click on appropriate link, and you will be able to access our audio stories as well as video.

Each week, I take the top headlines of the summaries and put them into a broadcast format. A large segment of our staff are also producing audio feature stories with sound bites from people in the community highlighting their thoughts about different events. For example, last Saturday I visited Pine and covered the 19th annual Rhubarb Festival. I compiled audio interviews, along with music from the festival, and made it into an NPR-type story.

Our education reporter, Nancy Hull, will be creating an audio story about former President Bill Clinton’s visit to Littleton during the groundbreaking of the Columbine memorial, and we’ll have an audio story on the Web next week covering the 40th annual Evergreen Rodeo and Parade. Many of these stories will have slide shows that roll along with the audio.

These audio stories are popularly known as podcasts. One of the biggest misconceptions about podcasts is that you need to have an iPod to hear them. You don’t! All you need is a computer, but to make it mobile, or what I like to call “news on the go” you will in fact need an iPod or a portable audio player. Apple computers banked on the podcast label, but mobility is also made possible with MP3 players and a variety of other digital audio devices.

OK, so here is how podcasts are used with a portable audio player. The quickest and easiest way to download a podcast onto a portable audio player is through iTunes,, and best of all iTunes is free. Go to www.apple.com/itunes and download the latest version of iTunes for quick and easy access to podcasts”. [PR Submitted to IMNewswatch]

Link

Go to 2Podcast to listen to / submit podcasts.

This news post was submitted by Joey Wong, Ambatch Systems.