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
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
- ^ http://www.soundportraits.org/about/
- ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5425596
- ^ http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=775700&page=1
- ^ http://www.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=193
- ^ "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
- ^ "Television/Radio; Pulling in Signals From a Lost World", The New York Times, JULIE SALAMON, March 17, 2002
- ^ "Sounds of the Georgia Death Chamber Will Be Heard on Public Radio", The New York Times, SARA RIMER, May 2, 2001
- ^ http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2006Fellows/Alphabetically/DavidIsay/index.cfm
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