Dear Editor: I just read Alan Barker's article " Documentary Sound: Some Minimal Audiokits" (Winter 2017) with some interest. However, there are a few
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Dear Readers, As we go to press, Americans are facing the possibility of losing some of our most cherished and vital federal agencies—namely, the

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