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# 27 - Public journalism: "The Story"

Posted on May 18, 2007

A new (to me) program from American Public Media is "The Story".  I mention it here, because it seems like it would be a good place to include some voices from Indonesia and East Timor.

When I did searches of Indonesia and East Timor, I found one story related to the tsunami of 2004 and this one story entitled "Friend of the Forest".

In the Archive, which numbers only 49 as of today, are a wide variety of sometimes-quirky human interest stories -- many on health and illness, many on Iraq and the Middle East.

The premise of the program is a kind of interlocking of stories, where listeners add to stories they have heard or contribute to stories-in-progress. Coincidence and follow-up seem to be recurrent themes.  The host, Dick Gordon, is an insightful interviewer.  Here's a recent one, One African Library http://thestory.org/sidebars/agbessi-laura-and-family for example that might have Indonesian or East Timorese counterparts