“I went from being on the front page for football, representing my itty-bitty school, to being on the front page as a thief and a meth head.”

Our new, expanded cd includes a special 32-page booklet with historic photos and a complete transcript of the documentary.

An ever-expanding list of shows to listen to.

PRX (Public Radio Exchange) has launched a new collective of the best story-driven shows on the planet. We are proud to be a founding member, along with some of the most talented producers around.

Read our tribute to the life of Nelson Mandela.

Here’s a list of great books to start paging through.

In West Virginia, people say that in the old days, communities turned into ghost towns when the coal ran out. Now they turn into ghost towns when the mountaintop mines move in.

7 PM on November 12 at the Sixth and I Synagogue and Performance Space. Get your tickets now!

Stories from the day a plane crashed into the Empire State Building.

Get your tickets now for our Teenage Diaries Revisited event on November 12.

Listen to our latest series on  n  p  r .

Listen to Josh’s teenage and grown-up diaries in our latest podcast. (Plus, outtakes!)

A video of Joe’s talk at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism about producing Teenage Diaries Revisited.

Joe writes about how the Teenage Diaries Revisited project began.

Are you a teenager with a story to tell? Write it down, photograph it (and record it if you want) and then submit it to the storytelling site Cowbird.

Learn how the Teenage Diaries Revisited series began.

Amanda was the first teenage diarist I ever worked with (and the last before the world went digital). Now, more than 16 years later, Amanda is back on NPR as part of our Teenage Diaries Revisited series.

The editors at Bookish.com have developed a reading list with books that correspond to the stories in Teenage Diaries Revisited.

One of the things that makes Josh Cutler a great diarist is that I never know what he is going to say next. Sometimes he doesn’t either.

From football star, to junkie, to dad. A lot of life happens in 16 years.

16 years after his teenage diary, Juan has achieved a version of the American dream: a good job, happy marriage, three kids, two cars, and his own home. But he’s still undocumented.

Watch this trailer for our new series, airing May 6-10 on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Tell your story to the folks at Bookish for a chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to our Teenage Diaries Revisited event at BAM on May 6.

On May 6 at 7:30 PM, join Ira Glass of This American Life and Joe Richman of Radio Diaries in a special live multimedia event at BAM’s Fishman Space to kick off our new series, Teenage Diaries Revisited.

When Jeff Rogers recorded his Teenage Diary back in 1998, he referred to himself as a ‘halfrican.’ We caught up with Jeff in this week’s podcast, while he was in the midst of celebrating ‘Mulatto History Month.’

When searching for the audio of George Wallace’s ‘Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever,’ speech, we repeatedly found ourselves at …

World AIDS Day is a day to support people living with HIV and to celebrate the lives of those who have died from the virus. For me, it’s a day to remember Thembi Ngubane.

14 years ago, Melissa Rodriguez disappeared. She walked out of her apartment in New Haven, left most of her belongings, changed her cell phone number, and didn’t tell her friends where she was going. All she took was her two-year old son, Issaiah, and a few photographs. A year ago, we received an email from her that inspired us to revisit our Teenage Diaries series.

Teen boxer Claressa Shields says she’s never gotten anything other than gold, and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival she kept her record. Radio Diaries is incredibly proud to tell you that our story about Claressa, Teen Contender, won the prize for Best Documentary.

A collection of Cowbird Teenage Diaries will be featured on npr.org. Plus, two teens will be selected to work with Radio Diaries to produce audio Teenage Diaries that will air on NPR in 2013! Learn how to participate in this project.

Wow! 17 year old Claressa Shields – our Teen Contender – just won the gold medal! It’s a historic moment: …

A: Claressa Shields!
At Radio Diaries we are throwing away all pretense of journalistic objectivity. After a long journey, Claressa’s going for the gold.

Radio Diaries will be celebrating Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy all week next week.
Stray tuned…

Last month, we followed teen boxer Claressa Shields while she was preparing for the Summer Olympic Games 2012 in London.

Radio Diaries is profiled in the current “Why’s This So Good” feature from the Nieman Storyboard. Go ‘behind-the-scenes’ to find …

In this week’s New Yorker, Ariel Levy profiles Claressa Shields, the subject of our story from earlier this year, Teen …

Radio Diaries’ next story, “The Two lives of Asa Carter”, will be broadcast on NPR on Friday April 20 at …

Over the past year, Americana band The Ghost of Joseph Buck has been writing and recording songs based on our …

“Teen Contender” airs today (Monday) on NPR’s All Things Considered at 4:30 PM (ET). At 16, Claressa Shields is the …

Get your tickets quick before they’re gone….Friday 2/10, photographer Sue Johnson and teen boxer Claressa Shields will join Rosie Perez …

In 2012, for the first time, women boxers will compete in the Olympics. We’re collaborating with the New York Times, …

If you subscribe to our podcast, you’ll notice we’ve thrown a lot of podcasts up in the past month. If …

A couple of years ago, an animation student at CalArts named Jisoo Kim came to us with an idea. She …

Our latest documentary airs today on NPR…..and it’s kind of a strange one. Strange and beautiful. And it may be …

Happy veterans day, all. We’ve been thinking about vets….and Occupy Wall Street….and how timely our latest documentary is. We’re looking …

Hello! Welcome to Radio Diaries’ new and improved website. We’re still in beta, and the site may still have some …