Press Releases

StoryCorps puts out frequent press releases about our initiatives across the country. You can see a sampling below. If you are a member of the media and would like to receive all of our releases, please email Debra Duffy.

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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

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December 7, 2007

UNICEF, One Laptop per Child, Google Launch Initiative to Preserve and Share Stories around the World (pdf)

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.

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November 1, 2007

StoryCorps Griot, An Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families, Arrives in Memphis (pdf)

StoryCorps Griot partners with WKNO and the Memphis Public Library in gathering stories

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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

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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

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June 21, 2007

StoryCorps Griot, an Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families, Arrives in Chicago (pdf)

StoryCorps Griot partners with Chicago Public Radio and WVON in gathering stories for archive to be housed at Smithsonian

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May 11, 2007

StoryCorps Griot, an Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families, Arrives in Detroit (pdf)

StoryCorps Griot partners with WDET in gathering stories for archive to be housed at Smithsonian

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April, 2007

StoryCorps, the National Oral History Project, Announces Additional Cities on the 2007 Mobile StoryBooth Tour (pdf)

Martha’s Vineyard, Cleveland, and Omaha among the new cities on the tour

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March 28, 2007

Mayor Cory A. Booker Welcomes StoryCorps Griot, an Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families, to Newark (pdf)

StoryCorps Griot partners with WBGO in gathering stories for archive to be housed at Smithsonian

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February 15, 2007

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, StoryCorps, and the Smithsonian Launch Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families in Atlanta (pdf)

StoryCorps Griot Initiative largest of its kind ever undertaken. Will record the stories of everyday African Americans in cities across the nation.

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February 7, 2007

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, StoryCorps, and the Smithsonian Launch Historic Initiative to Preserve the Stories of African American Families (pdf)

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.

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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.

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January, 2007

StoryCorps, the National Storytelling Project, to Launch First Ever Outpost to be Done in Partnership with the University of Wisconsin (pdf)

StoryCorps to spend six months at the Milwaukee Public Library beginning January 25, 2007.

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January, 2007

StoryCorps, the National Oral History Project, Announces New Cities on the 2007 Mobile StoryBooth Tour (pdf)

Houston, Richmond and Hartford among the new cities on the tour.

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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.

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September 5, 2006

WTC Memorial Foundation and StoryCorps announce the Memorial Museum’s first major initiative to honor the stories of lives lost on 9/11 (pdf)

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.

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Dec 14, 2005

Storycorps, the National Oral History Project, Announce Ten New Cities on National Tour, Including New Orleans (pdf)

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.

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Jul 12, 2005

National oral history Project Opens at WTC Site to Serve as an Interim Memorial for Families and Visitors (pdf)

StoryCorps is the first programming element for WTC Memorial. Families and friends of 9/11 victims will record stories of lost loved ones.

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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.

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Sep 16, 2004

Selected American Stories from StoryCorps to be featured Weekly on WNYC Radio during local broadcast of NPR’s Morning Edition (pdf)

Recordings of New Yorkers in StoryCorps Booth reveal amusing and touching stories of ordinary people.

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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.

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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.