Martina Castro Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Adonde Media is a multilingual podcast production company, aimed at helping clients connect with audiences through the power of audio storytelling. I launched Adonde as part of The S Factory, a four-month accelerator program for women-led startups at Start-Up Chile.

I am available for consultation on a variety of audio and podcast related projects, from editorial input on story conception, scripting, and narrative arc, to sound design and mixing, and even longer term projects related to podcast show development and launch. Please see my website, martinacastro.com for a full description of those services. I am also available to report and produce audio stories from Latin America, which can include field stereo/mono recordings, tape-syncs, sound gathering, and audio mixing in ProTools and Hindenburg.

New York, New York, Us

As senior producer and sound designer of Radio Ambulante, I was responsible for creating the sound of the show, which included mixing, scoring and creating the sound design of each episode. I participated in script edits and pitch meetings, interviewed candidates for jobs and internships, and represented the team in workshops, conferences, and trainings across the U.S. and Latin America. For our live shows, I often was creative director and sound engineer for the events.

For my Fulbright grant I trained journalism students in the art of narrative radio storytelling at the University of Montevideo. Our topic of investigation was reverse migration of Uruguayans, a trend triggered in 2009 by the global financial crisis. The stories were produced as a documentary series by the students, each creating a profile of a different returnee or "retornado". The series was edited by me and presented before a live audience in the fall of 2015. Most recently, I adapted the project into an audio exhibit for the Museo de Las Migraciones in Montevideo, from August to December of 2016.

San Francisco, California, Us

Editing, reporting, and producing pieces/interviews for KALW's daily local program, Crosscurrents.My work includes managing our volunteer staff, developing and maintaining our web presence at KALW.org, blogging and curating our local arts and culture coverage.I started working with KALW News part-time, reporting pieces for Crosscurrents, and coordinating an on-going series called "The Economic Edge: Documenting the Downturn", which combined reports by professional journalists with dispatches from regular members of the community to gauge the impact of the economic crisis at a local level. I was in charge of coordinating our coverage both by reporters and by community members, editing pieces, producing and mixing dispatches from the community, reporting stories myself, connecting with community organizations, and maintaining our series blog.I then moved on to curating our arts and culture coverage, editing pieces from our freelancers and volunteers for air on Crosscurrents, as well as doing my own arts and culture reports and interviews.In October 2010, I was promoted to Managing Editor of KALW News, and am now working closely with the Executive Editor to craft our local program and arts, culture, news coverage. While in this position, I helped oversee the founding of our Audio Academy, thereby formalizing our intern and volunteer program.

Washington, Dc, Us

Radio producer for National Public Radio's Day to Day, NPR's daily, national midday newsmagazine. Worked on tight deadline to produce interviews, produce host and reporter pieces and series, both in house and in the field. I generated story ideas, both news and feature stories, wrote host copy, and would also fill-in as director for the live one-hour program and breaking news updates.