Ashley Milne-Tyte

Audio slide show

March 6, 2011

I recently returned from a mind-expanding multimedia course run by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Big Shed. Audio people learned some photography, and photography experts learned audio. Then we paired up and were sent out to collect audio and photos from, in my case, a yoga studio in downtown Durham. Next up - creating a short audio slide show. This is the result of my efforts (I took the photos - the sound was collected by Alix Blair and mixed by Jennifer Deer).

It was a fun, rewarding experiment. I'd love to do more. 

Three generations of tax accountants (version 2)

April 13, 2007

Listen here. Aired on the Marketplace Morning Report.

This is a different, shorter version of my piece on the Coglianos (see below). Some of it overlaps with the longer, Marketplace Money version, but there's some tape which didn't appear in that piece. 

Three generations of tax accountants

April 6, 2007

Listen here. Aired on Marketplace Money.

For this story, I had the great pleasure of meeting and interviewing three generations of accountants: Angelo, Dan and David Cogliano. They work together in a small office in Queens, and some of their clients have been  with them for decades. It was heartwarming talking to three guys who obviously respect and love eachother, and enjoy working together. Their dedication to the job comes across as well. There was no need for me in this piece -- the Coglianos speak for themselves. This is one of my favorite stories.

From Baghdad to New London

March 18, 2006

Listen here. Aired on Weekend America (scroll down the page until you get to 'featured in hour two'.)

I first met ex-Baghdad resident, artist and former US Army translator Esam Pasha when I was working on a story about an Iraqi art exhibit. Later, I traveled up to New London, Connecticut to hear about his new, decidedly quiet life on the east coast. He was away from war for the first time in his life, and loving every minute of what most of us take for granted as mundane, everyday existence. This is a non-narrated piece.

Leaving New York

October 28, 2005

Listen here. Aired on the Marketplace Morning Report.

This non-narrated piece was part of Marketplace's New York Week coverage in October, 2005. I met documentary maker Pete Nicks and his family as they prepared to move out of their Brooklyn apartment and head back to Oakland. He loved the city, but it also drove him nuts. He talked to me about what was driving him back west after several years of living in NYC, a place where he had assumed he'd forge a career.