CJR March/April 2006 - Storytelling's rise on public radio

The Columbia Journalism Review examines the resurgence of personal narratives on public radio via StoryCorps, Transom, the Public Radio Exchange and This American Life. "We are social beings, and our lives got kind of fragmented -- our media lives, our civic lives, our personal lives," says independent producer Rob Rosenthal, director of the radio program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. "Listening to these kinds of stories on the radio can connect us to one another."