Making History: StoryCorps Puts Digital Recording in the People's Hands

摘要

You can't live forever, but thanks to a StoryBooth coming to a town near you, you might be able to live on in digital form (and even tell your grandkids what life was like before the Internet, though they might not believe you). StoryCorps, a national project designed to inspire people to record others' stories, was formed in 2003 when Sound Portraits Productions—a nonprofit production company founded in 1994 by MacArthur fellow David Isay, which produces radio documentaries from neglected corners of the American community—teamed up with the Library of Congress and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to make digital recording accessible to the general public.