Julie Rogers, Historian, NPR Research, Archives, & Data Strategy

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
  • Archives
Abstract

Public radio is an important cultural institution, but the value of its archives and its role as a historic repository is often overlooked. Public radio broadcast public forums, local events, discussions and interviews, often covering events and voices that were overlooked by other mediums. For this reason, radio archives are especially important to local and regional histories. Today public radio and podcasts continue to be important sites of negotiation of historical interpretation and public memory.

I am interested in building a roundtable with other panelists that have worked with radio archives or public radio stations to explore the role that public historians can play in preserving public radio and advocating for public engagement with audio archives.

Seeking

I am hoping to build a roundtable discussion with other public historians discussing their projects with public radio stations or radio archives. Ideally I am hoping to get an interesting variety of projects and perspectives. The remainder of the panel could session could be spent discussing the importance of radio preservation and how public historian’s work can help to accomplish this goal.

I’m looking for additional panelists and a moderator. Please email me with your ideas and experiences. I also welcome feedback!

If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to share contact information for other people the proposer should reach out to, please get in contact directly: Julie Rogers

If you have general ideas or feedback to share please feel free to use the comments feature below.

All feedback, and offers of assistance, should be submitted by July 3, 2016.

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Discussion

2 comments
  1. Johanna Russ says:
    June 7, 2016 at 9:38 am

    You should contact WBEZ in Chicago. They’re hiring a digital archivist right now, and their Curious City program is a public history project of sorts in and of itself. They might have someone who could participate.

  2. Modupe Labode says:
    June 30, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    I really like this idea and hope you develop it! In general, the auditory history is underdiscussed in public history. To be honest, I hadn’t thought about public history archives as a resource until I read your proposal.

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