David Isay & Sound Portraits

January 14th, 2010

David Isay Picture

David Isay

David
Isay & Sound Portraits TopicDave Isay is the
founder of Sound
Portraits Productions. Over the past thirteen years
his radio documentary and feature work has won almost
every award in broadcasting including four Peabody Awards,
two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and two Livingston Awards
for young journalists. David has also received the Prix
Italia (Europe’s oldest and most distinguished broadcasting
honor), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994) and most recently
a MacArthur Fellowship (2000).

He is the author (or co-author) of three books based on Sound Portraits radio
stories: Holding
On (W.W. Norton & Co., 1995); Our
America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
(Scribner, 1997); and Flophouse
(Random House, 2000).

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David Isay & Sound Portraits Links
Sound Portraits:
www.soundportraits.org
Yiddish Radio Project:
www.yiddishradioproject.org
Youth Portraits:
www.youthportraits.org
StoryCorps:
www.storycorps.net