As the podcast studio keeps jumping around from building to building on the Mount Carmel Campus of Quinnipiac University, a new hire was announced that put a name to the person who will be running the said studio.
The new podcast center director is David DesRoches and he comes to Quinnipiac from Connecticut NPR where he worked as an education reporter.
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“I’m naturally a creative person,” DesRoches said. “[In] journalism you don’t really have an outlet of opportunity to be creative, but you’re drawn to the facts.”
DesRoches said he is excited about building the podcast program from the ground up and he looks forward to enlisting the help of the Quinnipiac community, especially the students.
And Quinnipiac students, though they are excited about the new studio, have some expectations of the new space on campus and of its new director.
“[I want] an inclusive space,” senior Leah Lavin said. “I think we see a lot with these editing labs, the mac labs and the library and we think of it as only for [communication] students, but everyone likes to podcast.”
On top of serving the students and the university with the podcast studio, DesRoches said he wants to go further and give a voice to Hamden and the surrounding areas.
“I just really want to be a resource for the university and also for the community,” DesRoches said. “Part of what I want to do is do content that bridges the university with the area that expresses the values that we share.”