David Isay

David Isay
Born
David Avram Isay

(1965-12-05) December 5, 1965 (age 58)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationRadio producer
Known forFounder of StoryCorps
Websitestorycorps.org

David Avram "Dave" Isay (born December 5, 1965) is an American radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions.[1] He is also the founder of StoryCorps, an ongoing oral history project.[2] He is the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work.

Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived interviews with more than 645,000 participants.[3] Each conversation is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is the largest single collection of personal narratives ever gathered, and millions listen to StoryCorps' weekly broadcasts on NPR's Morning Edition and visit its website, www.storycorps.org.

  1. ^ "About Sound Portraits". Archived from the original on March 22, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "Person of the Week: David Isay". ABC News. December 15, 2005. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  3. ^ Mike Wenninger (August 17, 2023). "StoryCorps revisits Kalamazoo to offer residents preservable story moments". Southwest Michigan's Second Wave. Retrieved January 26, 2024.