Technology

Radio Diarists Document Their Lives

These ‘reporters’ capture moments journalists never could.
September 15, 2001
Joe Richman

Radio Documentaries Take Listeners Into Dark Corners

David Isay is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions. Its radio documentaries profile the lives of men, women and children living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. During the past…
September 15, 2001
David Isay

A Tape Recorder Becomes a Connecting Thread

Joshua Cutler. Photo by Kate Burton.I went to a small high school where everyone had some vague notion that I had a disease called Tourette’s syndrome. But very few students…
September 15, 2001
Joshua Cutler

First-Person Narratives on Radio Document Historic Memory

While emotionally powerful, their production presents journalistic challenges.
September 15, 2001
Sandy Tolan

‘What the Hell is a Radio Documentary?’

It’s a familiar question. Now here are some answers.
September 15, 2001
Stephen Smith

Using the Web for an Interactive Documentary Project

At 360degrees.org, the U.S. criminal justice system is examined from many perspectives.
September 15, 2001
Sue Johnson

A Festival to Celebrate Radio Documentaries

Organized by Chicago Public Radio, it happens in October.
September 15, 2001
Johanna Zorn

Listening to Radio Talk

At Transom.org, the conversation is about documentaries and public radio.
September 15, 2001

Radio Storytelling Builds Community On-Air and Off

‘The journalist must be facilitator, fact-checker, ethicist, but not puppet-master….’
September 15, 2001
Jay Allison

‘It was just me and the recorder.’

Cristel and daughter Rayonna. Photo by Sue Johnson.I had been incarcerated at the Rhode Island Training School for three years when I met Joe [Richman]. He asked if I wanted…
September 15, 2001
Cristel