David Isay
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| David Isay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David Avram Isay December 5, 1966 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nationality | USA |
| Website | |
| http://storycorps.org/ | |
David Isay (born 5 December 1966) 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]
History
David Isay grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and Manhattan, New York. He is the son of the psychiatrist, Richard Isay.[3] He graduated from New York University in 1987.[4]
Isay produced a wide variety of programs for NPR, including Yiddish Radio Project with Henry Sapoznik, salvaging recordings of Victor Packer.[5] He also produced "The Execution Tapes", nineteen recordings of the 23 electrocutions carried out by the state of Georgia since 1984.[6]
In 2003 Isay set up an oral history recording booth at Grand Central Station, in New York City.[7]
Awards
- 1996 The Hillman Prize with LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman for "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" segment on NPR's All Things Considered
- 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2001 The Hillman Prize with Stacy Abramson for "Witness to an Execution" segment on NPR's All Things Considered
- 2006 Rockefeller Fellow[8]
- four Peabody Awards
- two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
- Guggenheim Fellow
Books
- Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project, Editor David Isay, Penguin Group, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59420-140-0
- 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 978-0-671-00464-4
- Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, and Other American Heroes, Authors David Isay, Photographs Harvey Wang, W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-31608-7
- 12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Text, Authors Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-300-08960-8
References
- ↑ http://www.soundportraits.org/about/
- ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=775700&page=1
- ↑ Gay City News
- ↑ http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/05/storycorps-founder-d-20100506
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "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
- ↑ http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2006Fellows/Alphabetically/DavidIsay/index.cfm
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