The site's founder, Jay Allison, producer of The Moth Radio Hour recently resurrected his audio gathering tips for the site. Jay is also the founder of the Public Radio Exchange, where ATMI shares stories with people all over the world and he's a six-time Peabody Award winner. He has some insight that all radio producers can relate to.
"I usually begin by holding the mic casually, as though it’s unimportant. Sometimes I’ll rest it against my cheek to show it has no evil powers." - Jay Allison
This American Life host Ira Glass with some helpful tips about pulling your choicest quotes: "When I'm in the field, I'll write a list of favorite quotes immediately after getting the tape. Usually it's just three or four things, but when I'm recording all day, I'll take an hour or so at the end of the day and list everything I remember as great and as good. I try to keep the two categories very clear in my head: here's the stuff I know that kills, here's the stuff that's possible. It's surprising how often the story is simply the stuff I thought was great- that that initial list is the story. With just a few things from the "good" list, to fill a point out here or there."
Chris Brookes is known for making really good radio. And recently the website Transom.org featured his "Secret Ingredients to Great Features." We found his number two secret to ring true here at ATMI! He says that when he's producing he likes to have a talisman around. Talisman is basically an object that brings good luck. 
The New York Times has an interactive feature where you can explore the sounds WNYC's "Radiolab" has recorded/created to help them tell stories. 
From NHPR Web site: NHPR has teamed up with Generation PRX and the Terrascope Youth Radio group at MIT to produce a one-hour youth special for local and national distribution. "Fresh Greens" will tell the stories of how American youth think about their relationship to the environment and their daily impact on our planet.
An enterprising Young, Laura Mayer, has a very simple audio project where she publicizes a 1-800 number and asks people to call in and tell her how they are doing. It’s sort of like audio therapy and it’s fun number to call when you’re killing time, say waiting for a plane or standing at the bus stop. Or, it’s an “exercise in everyday empathy,” as the website says.
WFMU, a free-form radio station out of New Jersey, has set up "an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads." Free Music Archive might be a good spot to grab songs for DJ blocks and music beds!
