David Isay

David A. Isay (born 1966) is an American radio producer, founder of Sound Portraits Productions,^[1] which produces the StoryCorps programs.^[2][3]

He grew up in New Haven and in Manhattan. He graduated from New York University in 1987.^[4]

In 2003, he set up oral history recording booths in Vanderbilt Hall inside Grand Central Terminal.^[5] He produced Yiddish Radio Project with Henry Sapoznik, salvaged recordings of Victor Packer,^[6] and recordings from the Georgia death chamber.^[7]

Awards

• 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2006 Rockefeller Fellow^[8]
• four Peabody Awards
• two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
• Guggenheim Fellow

Works

• Listening is an act of love: a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps Project, Editor David Isay, Penguin Group, 2007, ISBN 9781594201400
• Our America: life and death on the south side of Chicago, Authors LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, David Isay, Photographs John Anthony Brooks, Simon and Schuster, 1998, ISBN 9780671004644
• Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroes, Authors David Isay, Photographs Harvey Wang, W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997, ISBN 9780393316087
• 12 American voices: an authentic listening and integrated-skills textbook, Authors Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780300089608

References

1. ^ http://www.soundportraits.org/about/
2. ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5425596
3. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=775700&page=1
4. ^ http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=193
5. ^ "Oral History Project Wants Nation of Interviewers; Public Recording Booth at Grand Central Aims to Democratize Chroniclers Art", The New York Times, MICHAEL BRICK, May 7, 2003
6. ^ "Television/Radio; Pulling in Signals From a Lost World", The New York Times, JULIE SALAMON, March 17, 2002
7. ^ "Sounds of the Georgia Death Chamber Will Be Heard on Public Radio", The New York Times, SARA RIMER, May 2, 2001
8. ^ http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2006Fellows/Alphabetically/DavidIsay/index.cfm

External links

• NPR: StoryCorps Podcast

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