The Sound of Science

The Challenge

The Science Magazine Podcast, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publishes weekly alongside the journal itself. Each episode is assembled from multiple segments — interviews, narration, pickups — produced by the show's editorial team on a magazine schedule: the issue ships, and the episode ships with it.

That cadence leaves no room for a post-production bottleneck. Every segment needs broadcast-quality cleanup and mixing, on a schedule set by the journal's publication calendar — week in, week out, across hundreds of episodes. The editorial team's time belongs in the journalism, not in audio repair.

The Solution

Podigy operates as the show's audio post-production line, engineered for a weekly editorial machine.

• ✓ Segment-level audio post: interviews, narration, and pickups, each returned edit-ready
• ✓ Broadcast-standard cleanup and mixing on every file
• ✓ Delivery into the team's own shared drive, named to their conventions
• ✓ Automated handoff notifications the moment a segment is ready
• ✓ A dedicated Podigy team member the editors can reach directly

Built for Editorial Teams

The show's producers work like journalists, because they are journalists. Podigy slots into that workflow as the audio desk: segments in, finished audio out, no process imposed on the newsroom.

Deadlines Are the Deliverable

A weekly show tied to a journal's publication date can't slip. The pipeline is built so the editorial team always knows exactly where every segment stands — automatically, without asking.

Invisible by Design

Listeners never think about the audio post on a great episode — and that's the point. The standard is the journal's own: rigorous, consistent, and never the story.