Over the last few years, the staff at the Catholic Courier has talked about starting a podcast.
I began attending podcast webinars, and two of my friends and I started a podcast on figure skating. But I was having a difficult time figuring out what the Courier’s inaugural podcast should be.
That is until I learned that we would celebrate the Courier’s 135th anniversary with a special photo exhibit. Eureka! A special limited-series podcast with past and present Courier photographers.
I pitched my idea in early spring, and my first task was finding a cohost. I asked Rebecca Leclair, who is on our board of directors. Rebecca was a news anchor at News10NBC in Rochester, where I worked as a producer for eight years before coming to the Courier. Rebecca agreed to join me, and working with her has brought back a lot of memories of when we previously worked together.
The next task was tracking down the photographers, which was a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, after messaging through email and social media, I was able to track down a handful of past photographers interested in participating.
In late summer, we began scheduling our recordings, and I was excited to use our new studio for some of them.
But then the unexpected happened.
I came down with COVID, which meant we had to move recordings from in person to Zoom. It wasn’t what I had planned, but as they say in show business, “The show must go on.” And, thanks to technology, we were able to keep our recording schedule intact.
Now as I finish editing episodes, I’m excited for people to hear our first episode and to check out our photo exhibit this October.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The podcast “Through the Lens of Faith” will be available at catholiccourier.com/lensoffaith and via such apps as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube Music. Video episodes also will appear on the Courier’s YouTube channel, youtube.com/catholiccourier. New episodes will be released each Wednesday through Oct. 16.
“Through the Lens of Faith” photo exhibit will be on display at the Thomas Terry Art Gallery at St. John’s Home, 150 Highland Ave., Rochester, for the month of October 2024. For more information on the photo exhibit, visit catholiccourier.com/lensoffaith.
