Dave Isay

Dave Isay appears in the following:

Celebrating 20 Years of StoryCorps

Monday, October 23, 2023

Dave Isay, founder and president of StoryCorps, reflects on 20 years of stories produced by StoryCorps.

Have You Found Your Calling? Stories From People Doing What They Love

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay on "Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work," a collection of personal reflections by people who do what they love.

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#TheGreatListen 2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

StoryCorps, the oral history project, has developed an app bringing the recording power to the palm of your hand. 

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What We've Learned from Ten Years of Storycorps

Monday, December 29, 2014

Founder Dave Isay's new book draws from the oral history project’s rich, decade-old archive. "It's not about the stories," he says. "It's about the act of being listened to."

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Preserving LGBT Stories

Thursday, June 05, 2014

Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and author of Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps (Penguin Press, 2013), is set to launch OutLoud, a project to capture the stories of the LGBT community, from before Stonewall to today.

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Happy Birthday StoryCorps!

Monday, October 28, 2013

Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps (Penguin Press, 2013), plays selections and talks about ten years of gathering extraordinary stories from "ordinary" people.

 

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StoryCorps ProFile: 'If I Could Share A Coffee With Anyone, It Would Be My Wife.'

Monday, October 21, 2013

This morning, Steve Inskeep admitted to Morning Edition listeners that he, like many of them, often finds himself choked up over the Friday morning StoryCorps segments on NPR. These intimate conversations are a small sampling from the nearly 50,000 interviews recorded as people share the incredible stories of their lives. ...

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StoryCorps: Thank a Teacher

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

To celebrate StoryCorps' National Day of Listening, founder Dave Isay is gathering stories about great teachers. Isay is the editor of Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps.

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Mom

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

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Listening, Not Shopping

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Learn how to preserve someone's story with master-listener Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps, who offers how-to advice for observing the second annual National Day of Listening on November 27th.

What's the best first question to start a family conversation? Comment below.

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Thanks for Listening

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The day after Thanksgiving might be a national day of shopping for some, but Dave Isay of StoryCorps wants it to be a national day of listening. He offers advice for recording the act of listening to a relative, friend or teacher. Also, New Jersey’s public advocate Ron Chen; the ...

The Art of Listening

Friday, May 16, 2008

Storycorps founder Dave Isay talks about the end of an era: the closing of one of the project's flagship recording booths in Manhattan. Annie Perasa and her husband were one of the first interviews in the booth. Together they share how it's possible to change lives just by being ...

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"The End"

Friday, May 16, 2008

StoryCorps closes its Grand Central booth at the end of this month. Founder Dave Isay looks back at some of the personal oral histories New Yorkers have provided over the years. Also, a new book on New York City serves as an urban dweller’s guide to living green, and city ...

Hearing with the Heart

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded the life stories of ordinary Americans, some of which are collected for a new book and cd, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Penguin, 2007). Dave Isay, public radio producer and the founder ...

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Memorial in Sound

Monday, May 28, 2007

Dave Isay, public radio producer and founder of the StoryCorps oral history project, returns with a StoryCorps interview for Memorial Day.

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Memorial in Sound

Monday, May 28, 2007

For Memorial Day, Dave Isay brings a personal tribute to one American soldier killed in Iraq from his two sisters recorded at the StoryCorps booth. Also: historian Ken Davis on the Civil War origins of the holiday; a proposal for a United States Department of Peace; class conflict in African ...

David Isay on the Art of Preservation

Saturday, April 07, 2001

Kurt Andersen and the MacArthur Genius-recipient and award-winning radio producer David Isay talk about the art of preservation.

Isay spent much of his time in radio producing stories about preserving memory, physical space, or artistic endeavors. He is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions, and his documentaries heard on public radio include Ghetto ...

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David Isay on the Art of Preservation

Saturday, February 03, 2001

Kurt Andersen and the MacArthur Genius-recipient and award-winning radio producer David Isay talk about the art of preservation.

Isay spent much of his time in radio producing stories about preserving memory, physical space, or artistic endeavors. He is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions, and his documentaries heard on public radio ...

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