Award-Winning Public Radio Documentarian David Isay and Audible Join Forces on the Internet.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999-- Partnership Marks First Alliance Between Internet Audio See RealAudio. Service and Leading Independent Audio Documentary Producer Audible, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ) and Peabody Award-winning audio documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an also doc·u·men·ta·rist n. One that makes documentaries or a documentary. David Isay launched today a multi-year partnership that will bring original programming to www.audible.com, Audible's Web site for streaming playback at the PC or mobile playback on AudibleReady(TM) mobile devices. The new alliance will also make Isay's seminal public radio documentaries, produced by Sound Portraits Productions, Inc. available for digital distribution over the Internet. The debut program on audible.com is The Jewish Giant, a portrait of Eddie Carmel Eddie Carmel (March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972) was a well-known sufferer of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland, caused in his case by a tumor of the gland, which, untreated, causes uncontrolled growth. , the 8' 9"-tall young man first made famous in a portrait by Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. Early life Diane Nemerov . It will be available free of charge at audible.com by 6pm eastern tonight, Wednesday October 6, 1999. The initiative will also showcase public radio documentaries by leading independent producers and will locate new and original works, available at www.audible.com. In a unique initiative addressing the spoken word creative community, Audible has provided an email address See Internet address. , isay@audible.com, through which independent producers and other audio creators can provide feedback on Audible programs and make it possible for people to present ideas to Isay and Audible. Isay will work with Audible to locate and nurture new documentary talent looking to produce work for digital distribution over the Internet. "As one of the most decorated masters of the spoken word, David Isay represents a discrete creative standard of journalistic excellence," said Don Katz, chairman and founder of Audible, Inc. "He takes his listeners to the edge of society in the name of social purpose and compelling story-telling. His documentaries are riveting, artistic, and inevitably, profound. His work adds immeasurably to Audible's ever-expanding collection." "Audible has developed an innovative method for using the Internet to deliver premium audio, and they have proven the creative and journalistic advantages of this emergent new medium," said David Isay, producer of Sound Portraits. "With Audible's assistance I am looking forward to helping create a new frontier for innovative audio programming." Other Sound Portraits documentaries that Audible.com will offer include The Sunshine Hotel, Remembering Stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. , which first brought Isay to national prominence, and Ghetto 101, and Remorse which won a Peabody Award, Livingston Award and a Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi Prize, among others. About Audible Audible, Inc. is one of the Internet's largest and most diverse providers of premium audio content for playback on personal computers and mobile devices. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey Wayne is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than 20 miles from midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 54,069. Audible's mission focuses on audio content sourcing, development, packaging, delivery, and playback. Innovative audio advancements provide subscribers with platform, tools, premium services, and varied licensing opportunities. Audible's content partners include more than 100 leading audio book publishers, broadcasters, magazine and newspaper publishers, business information providers, and educational and cultural institutions. The Company's technology partners include AT&T Corp., Casio Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Creative Labs Inc., Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc., Everex Systems Inc., The Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Philips Electronics and RealNetworks. Visitors to www.audible.com can browse, sample, purchase, subscribe to, schedule and download more than 17,000 hours of audio content. About Sound Portraits Established as a non-profit in 1994, Sound Portrait Productions is an independent production company dedicated to creating radio which brings neglected American voices to a national audience. Operating in the public interest, Sound Portraits is committed to producing innovative works of lasting educational, cultural and artistic value. Under the direction of David Isay, they create documentaries for National Public Radio's All Things Considered All Things Considered (ATC) is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets. and Weekend Edition. These documentaries are the kind of programs rarely found anywhere in the media. They are finely-crafted, artful, and risk-taking: radio from the heart. AudibleReady is trademarked by Audible, Inc. |
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