Thursday, December 11, 2008
News StoryCorps coming to Atlanta
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Starting in 2009, Atlanta will be home to StoryCorps' super-cool "StoryBooth" project — a radio initiative that highlights the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people.
Atlanta's NPR affiliate, WABE 90.1, reports:
Atlanta will host StoryCorps’ second permanent StoryBooth in the United States beginning in 2009. Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) will initially house operations for the Atlanta StoryBooth project. Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights will permanently house the Atlanta StoryBooth project upon the Center’s opening in 2011.
NPR stations, including WABE, regularly air StoryCorps during "Morning Edition."
PBA Senior Vice President John Weatherford calls StoryCorps "the nation’s largest and most remarkable oral history project of our time.”
The project, which was founded in 2003, has archived over 24,000 personal interviews of nearly 50,000 participants. Archives are preserved at the Library of Congress.
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