Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries was founded on the principle that extraordinary stories can be found in ordinary places.

Radio Diaries tells the extraordinary stories of ordinary life. Since 1996, we’ve been giving people tape recorders and working with them to report on their own lives and histories. We’ve collaborated with teenagers and octogenarians, prisoners and prison guards, bra saleswomen and lighthouse keepers….and along the way we’ve helped pioneer a new form of citizen journalism. Radio Diaries has won every major award in broadcast journalism and produced some of the most memorable documentaries ever heard on public radio. Their stories are broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, This American Life, BBC, and on The Radio Diaries Podcast. They also publish educational materials, including the Teen Reporter Handbook. Radio Diaries is a not-for-profit organization, and a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX — a collective of the best story-driven shows on the planet. Press reviews and highlights.