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StoryCorps Interview App Announced at TED 2015

12 years after launching the audacious oral history project, Dave Isay puts the power of preserving "the wisdom of humanity" into the hands of all

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When Dave Isay founded StoryCorps in 2003, he hoped to create a global archive of what he calls “the wisdom of humanity by empowering people to record face-to-face conversations that could be preserved and passed down from generation to generation. His hope, Isay says, was to to help create a world where welisten closely to each and recognize the beauty, grace and poetry in thelives …

TED Prize Honors StoryCorps’ David Isay

The documentarian speaks about listening, storytelling and our shared humanity

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by Laura Feinstein Since 2003, journalist, radio documentarian and MacArthur Fellow David Isay has helped bring attention to the daily and intricate lives of ordinary Americans with his groundbreaking oral history project StoryCorps. Oft-replayed on NPR, and archived at the Library of Congress, StoryCorps captures the beautiful, tragic and frequently moving conversations that make up the human experience—in the process collecting thousands of hours of …