Press Releases
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December 11, 2009
Give the Gift of Listening this Holiday Season (pdf)
New York Times bestseller Listening Is an Act of Love offers a unique holiday “gift that gives back” by supporting StoryCorps’ efforts to build a more thoughtful and compassionate nation
October 20, 2009
StoryCorps Announces the Second Annual National Day of Listening to take place Nov. 27, 2009 (pdf)
StoryCorps creates a new holiday tradition where Americans share and record their stories on the day after Thanksgiving
October 20, 2009
The New York Public Library and StoryCorps to Hold “National Day of Listening” Celebration (pdf)
NYPL and acclaimed oral history project team up for all-day event on Friday, November 27, 2009
October 13, 2009
StoryCorps opens a new StoryBooth at WABE in Atlanta, GA (pdf)
Atlanta becomes the third city in the country with a long-term StoryBooth
September 24, 2009
StoryCorps will visit cities throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico
June 9, 2009
The StoryCorps CD will be distributed at the NAACP convention in New York City, July 11-17, 2009
April 7, 2009
As part of its 50th Year Anniversary Celebration, Lincoln Center Hosts StoryCorps, May 6-23, 2009 (pdf)
The national oral history project’s Airstream recording trailer comes to Manhattan for the first time to capture personal Lincoln Center Stories
February 3, 2009
The StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative Partners with Organizations Throughout the Bay Area (pdf)
February – October 2009
December 2, 2008
StoryCorps Extends “National Day of Listening” Through December (pdf)
Overwhelming success of project that encourages the nation to interview loved ones; tradition to continue through the holidays
November 12, 2008
President and First Lady Participate in StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening (pdf)
President and Mrs. Bush to add personal stories to nation’s largest oral history project
November 10, 2008
StoryCorps Launches “National Day of Listening” November 28, 2008 (pdf)
Acclaimed oral history project encourages Americans to interview a loved one the day after Thanksgiving
October 28, 2008
Listening Is an Act of Love:New in Paperback on October 28, 2008 (pdf)
New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
October 20, 2008
StoryCorps Opens at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: First Museum in the Country to Host a StoryBooth (pdf)
StoryCorps will launch with a Community Listening Party and book signing featuring Dave Isay, StoryCorps founder and author of Listening Is an Act of Love
October 15, 2008
StoryCorps Alaska will record more than 500 stories of everyday Alaskans in six-month initiative
April 3, 2008
StoryCorps, The National Oral History Project, Opens StoryBooth in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square (pdf)
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn to Join StoryCorps at Opening
December 7, 2007
UNICEF, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and Google today announced the launch of “Our Stories” (www.ourstories.org), a joint initiative to preserve and share the histories and identities of cultures around the world by making personal stories available online in many languages.
November 1, 2007
StoryCorps Griot partners with WKNO and the Memphis Public Library in gathering stories
October 30, 2007
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (pdf)
Edited and with an Introduction by Dave Isay
August 7, 2007
Starbucks Encourages Its Customers To “Listen” To Inspirational New Book
(pdf)
Listening Is an Act of Love features remarkable stories from everyday people and
creates a mosaic of American life
June 21, 2007
StoryCorps Griot partners with Chicago Public Radio and WVON in gathering stories for archive to be housed at Smithsonian
May 11, 2007
StoryCorps Griot partners with WDET in gathering stories for archive to be
housed at Smithsonian
April, 2007
Martha’s Vineyard, Cleveland, and Omaha among the new cities on the tour
March 28, 2007
StoryCorps Griot partners with WBGO in gathering stories for archive to be
housed at Smithsonian
February 15, 2007
StoryCorps Griot Initiative largest of its kind ever undertaken. Will record the stories of everyday African Americans in cities across the nation.
February 7, 2007
StoryCorps Griot project largest of its kind ever undertaken.
Will record the stories of everyday African Americans in nine cities across the nation, including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Newark and Selma.
January, 2007
StoryCorps, the National Storytelling Project Traveling the Country, Visits Houston (pdf)
StoryCorps to spend one month capturing the stories of Houstonians, including Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
January, 2007
StoryCorps to spend six months at the Milwaukee Public Library beginning January 25, 2007.
January, 2007
Houston, Richmond and Hartford among the new cities on the tour.
November 27, 2006
StoryCorps Visits Weeksville Heritage Center, November 27-December 20 (pdf)
National oral history project wraps up 2006 Mobile Tour with first ever visit to Brooklyn.
September 5, 2006
Goal to collect at least one family recording for each of the 2,979 who perished on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, as well as the stories of survivors and rescue workers.
Dec 14, 2005
After collecting nearly 2,000 stories in 26 cities, StoryCorps announces a new six-month, ten-city tour; NPR member stations to host StoryCorps MobileBooths in each city.
Jul 12, 2005
StoryCorps is the first programming element for WTC Memorial.
Families and friends of 9/11 victims will record stories of lost loved
ones.
Apr 26, 2005
StoryCorps to Kick Off American Tour from Washington, DC (pdf)
StoryCorps launches two mobile recording booths from the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to travel the U.S.
capturing stories of ordinary Americans.
Sep 16, 2004
Recordings of New Yorkers in StoryCorps Booth reveal amusing and touching stories of ordinary people.
Sep 30, 2003
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to House the StoryCorps Archive (pdf)
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress today announced that it will house the recorded archives of StoryCorps, a
ground-breaking oral history project that kicks off October 23, 2003,
in New York City.
Sep 29, 2003
National oral history-of-America Project Kicks Off at Grand Central Terminal (pdf)
MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay of Sound Portraits Productions starts a national movement to help Americans tell their stories.
