well, it s a really great honor to be here and to be back in new york. we re on a 100-city tour for the 20th anniversary of democracy now!. and i also want to shout out to my colleagues, norman and dena and aaron over there in the back and the volunteers and the interns who are helping out. democracy now! is a joint effort, a joint project, a brain trust, a remarkable group of reporters and producers and videographers for the last 20 years. we didn t think it would go past nine months. it was the only election broadcast in 1996. i was asked to do the show when i was in a safe house in haiti and the first coupe. people who announced for office could be gunned down. people who would go to the polls would be gunned down and still the overwhelming number of people voted. but in our country when i was asked to do a daily election show sitting there from that advantage point, many people didn t vote, facing nothing like the adversity that they faced in haiti. but most people di
i want to introduce our panelists. we will go in the order listed in your program. so this panel and national heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. good morning everybody. this is a jane, my colleague. we are from the research archive and data strategy team at the national public radio. we are known as rad. please make sure to introduce yourself and say hello. sittingf rad officer is in the front, will also be presenting tomorrow at a plenary session. please make sure you attend her talk. we are here to tell you about npr s historical archives in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building. always valued research and archives. we have had an expertly organized audio archive going back to the beginning of all ofngs considered at the end may 1989. one of the first persons they hired was a researcher exclusively to help in the newsroom. having s
panel.hairing this basically keeping everybody more or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. so i just want to introduce our panelists and the weight will get started. i think we will go in the order .isted in your program weo this panel is on are going to so, this panel is on radio and national heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. good morning, everybody. this is jane, my colleague. we are from the research archive and data strategy team at the national public radio. we are known as rad. in our company. several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. our chief officer sitting in the atnt will also be presenting the interdisciplinary session, so please make sure you attend her talk as well. we are here to tell you about historicalted npr s archive in 2013
or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. so i just want to introduce our panelists and then we will get started. i think we will go in the order listed in your program. so, this panel is on radio and national heritage. and we are going to hear first from jane gilvin and ayda pourasad, of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archives. ayda pourasad: good morning, everybody. this is jane, my colleague. we are from the research archive and data strategy team at the national public radio. we are known as rad. in our company. several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure to go and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. our chief officer sitting in the front will also be presenting at tomorrow at the plenary session so please make sure you attend , her talk as well. we are here to tell you about how we created npr s historical archive in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a