Journalists who work with recorded sound know just how painstaking it can be to sift through hours upon hours of audio to find the right clip for a story. Then comes the time-consuming task of ...

Journalists, especially those who collect sound and pictures, are hoarders. To dump raw material onto a hard drive is effortless, thoughtless. To delete it — what if you need something again some day?

Apple has reportedly acquired Pop Up Archive, a small Oakland-based company that builds tools for searching spoken audio including podcasts (via Peter Kafka). Pop Up Archive, which makes a tool called ...