Editing Radio documentary (section)

=== Origins of Radio Documentary in America ===
The early stages of fiction audio storytelling did not entirely resemble what would later be called radio documentaries. In the 1930s, with radio stations like [[WNYC (AM)|WNYC]] entering the airspace, reporters documented real people and real-life scenarios through short on-the-ground interviews rather than dramatization.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Carson|first=Saul|year=1949|title=Notes toward an Examination of the Radio Documentary|jstor=1209386|journal=Hollywood Quarterly|volume=4|issue=1|pages=69–74|doi=10.2307/1209386}}</ref> Other notable documentary broadcasts include unrefined one-shot audio recordings of events, such as the [[Hindenburg disaster]] in 1937.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://transom.org/2014/brief-history-of-documentary-forms/#npr|title=A Brief History of Documentary Forms|last=Carrier|first=Scott|date=3 Feb 2014|website=transom.org|access-date=2 Dec 2016}}</ref> By 1939, CBS responded to growing anxieties about immigration in the U.S. with a six-month series, titled "Americans All…Immigrants All," which highlighted the stories of immigrant communities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shiffman|first=Dan|year=1996|title=A Standard for the Wise and Honest: The "Americans All…Immigrants All" Radio Broadcasts|jstor=23413750|journal=Studies in Popular Culture|volume=19|issue=1|pages=99–107}}</ref>

The lack of documentary-style reporting in this era can be attributed, in part, to technological limitations; recording equipment was not easily portable.<ref name=":0" />