The Drag is made up of hardworking student podcasters who spend their free time between classes contacting sources, conducting interviews, creating marketing strategies, recording audio, writing scripts and editing to create longform podcasts which tell compelling stories and provide the students with invaluable experience to help them become the next generation of successful podcasters.
Every dollar you donate to The Drag goes toward making amazing student podcasts. With your help, we can fund our student podcasters and acquire the resources needed to continue creating the content you want to listen to.
What does it take to make a podcast at The Drag?
Here's what it takes to make one season of "Darkness" …
- 15+ hours of interviews
- Hundreds of hours of research
- Two executive producers
- A team of associate producers
- Three months of script writing
- 50 hours in the recording studio
- 40 hours editing and mixing
“It is such a unique opportunity that I honestly don’t think you can get anywhere else. You can try to start a podcast at another college, but you can’t produce something like ‘The Orange Tree.’”
– Carly Rose, associate producer of “Lady Bird”
This doesn’t even account for the snacks and cups of coffee that fueled us along the way. Creating a podcast takes a lot of hard work — and money, which is where you come in.
$2,000 — Fund new equipment to elevate our production quality.
$5,000 — Fund one student’s work for a semester, fostering an invaluable learning experience.
$15,000 — Fund the host for an upcoming season of “Darkness”
$50,000 — Become a sponsor of one of our podcasts.
For customized sponsorship offers, please email [email protected].
“I got to make these big decisions I probably wouldn’t have been able to make until later on in my career. In those moments, I felt like I truly wasn’t a student. It felt like I was a professional trying to get this story done well.”
– Jackie Ibarra, host of season three of “Darkness”
Haley Butler (right) and Tinu Thomas (left) work on hit true crime podcast “The Orange Tree” at KUT’s studio.
Capstone students brainstorm their future podcast “Young & Confused.