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Can Jen’s new Gnus and Wether page confound FB’s algorithms?

There is a saying around keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. While I don’t recommend having and making enemies, I have this week thought long and hard about my relationship with Facebook. On Feb 18, when I went to do my daily check...
21 February, 2021

Face(book) Off

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm  I ran into a girlfriend at the supermarket last weekend who was made redundant from her radio news reader/journalism role in the early stages of the COVID pandemic. She’s doing a contract role in an unrelated...
18 February, 2021

What is a podcast asks Jen Seyderhelm

This is the first question I ask students of my classes and I usually get a whiteboard full of answers once they have warmed up. There is one answer that I never get. It will be the basis of my next podcast; but I’ll come back to that. The last time...
26 November, 2020

Make a podcast. Go on, I dare you!

Comment from Jen Syderhelm I read with interest Steve Ahern’s comments in a recent radioinfo article about the lack of radio jobs at the moment. I’ve never seen the various Australia media pages I follow without a single opportunity. Then came...
24 May, 2020

Alan Jones, The Master Story Teller

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm There’ll be better definitions but, to me, a great orator has the ability to rally individuals and groups to a cause or circumstance. A good storyteller brings to life a person, whether real or imagined. Alan...
12 May, 2020

Radio brings calm to troubled waters

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm I’m going to say it. Since last November, through drought, fire, smoke haze, flood and now virus – radio and podcasting are the only industries which are booming, in a positive way, exponentially. These are unexpected...
15 March, 2020

Messages from women in the radio industry to newcomers

Compiled by Jen Seyderhelm To celebrate International Women's Day I asked women in the industry what advice or reflection they would offer those just starting out: Amanda Keller - WSFM Jonesy & Amanda in the Morning: "I've always done radio...
08 March, 2020

Be Yourself

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm I went to work this week feeling crook. Didn’t think anything of it until my colleague stopped me and asked how I was. “You don’t seem yourself.” I most definitely wasn’t and feel grateful for those in my workplace who...
29 February, 2020

Local Still Matters

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm This month marks my 20th anniversary in commercial radio. I’d only spent a couple of weeks at Max Rowley’s Radio School before he sent me to Gunnedah in country NSW for an interview with 2MO and Triple G. My future boss...
24 February, 2020

Let’s be explicit…..

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm  This is really going to boost radioinfo’s SEO. I’ve been teaching Podcasting Essentials to TAFE students and teachers with a view to creating a training package that broadly covers this booming industry. I am from a...
18 February, 2020

Not a Triple J Announcer

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm. I took a mini break (thank you Bridget Jones) to Brisbane the other week to ostensibly catch up with my 20-year-old niece.  There were deeper and more practical reasons too.  I wanted to see the house I...
10 December, 2019

Our Time is Now

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm I ran a Voiceover course last weekend. On the Saturday we talked about money. One of the young women did what I’ve heard pretty much every female in my life do at some stage. She mentioned she’d earned above a ballpark...
04 December, 2019

Compassionate letter to myself

Comment from Jen Seyderhelm. Earlier this month I went to my girlfriend Kim’s house. We had become acquainted after I read an article about her and decided to become her friend, first on social media, then in real life. This is not normally how I...
29 November, 2019

The people you meet

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm This story is 100% true. I’d just returned from a week’s holiday to my traffic scheduling role at 2GB in Sydney. I loved that job, the people I worked with and was feeling refreshed. I was as exuberant as Johnny Young...
21 November, 2019

Has Radio become the missionary position?

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm A friend told me the other day that podcasting is what the radio industry would look like if women were in charge. I liked that. For me podcasting is something even better. I see commercial radio as a quickie....
17 November, 2019

Radio relationships

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm Kyle is single again. So apparently is the whole KIIS Breakfast crew, including Intern Pete. Kate Ritchie’s relationship is going through the media wringer. I cried buckets listening to Robin Bailey say farewell to her...
13 November, 2019

Radio Dreams

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm The night before my first solo shift as a news reader I had the most vivid dream. My PD called me into his office and told me there were fundamental change to bulletins that started immediately. From now on, each...
07 November, 2019

Why we still need Alan Jones

Comment by Jen Seyderhelm A decade ago, I was working as a radio announcer in regional Queensland. A couple of my colleagues were serving it up to Kyle Sandilands. I doubt I need to let you know what they were saying, or if what they said...
31 October, 2019

Suggestive flowering plant provides unscripted mirth at 2CC

A common shade-loving perennial has caused a comical disruption at Canberra station 2CC during a popular gardening segment.  'I was on air on Sunday 2CC during our immensely popular and long-running program, The Garden Gurus. One of the...
04 December, 2017

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