{"id":10550,"date":"2016-02-24T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2016-02-24T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:00:58","slug":"david-schwimmer-puts-studs-terkel-archive-over-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/02\/24\/david-schwimmer-puts-studs-terkel-archive-over-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"David Schwimmer puts Studs Terkel Archive over the top"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Studs<\/a>

<\/a> Studs Terkel (Photo: Christopher Walker)<\/p><\/div>\n

A sizable donation from actor\/director David Schwimmer helped put a Kickstarter campaign<\/a> to fund the Studs Terkel Radio Archive<\/a> over the top this week.<\/p>\n

WFMT Radio Network<\/a> surpassed its goal of raising $75,000 three days before the February 25 deadline. As of early Wednesday, more than $84,000 had been pledged.<\/p>\n

The Chicago History Museum<\/a> and WFMT Radio Network are working together to create a free public digital archive of Terkel\u2019s interviews, taped from 1952 to 1997 at WFMT FM 98.7, <\/a>the Window to the World Communications classical music station. When completed, the online repository will include more than 5,600 hours of Terkel's programs.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>

David Schwimmer<\/p><\/div>\n

Among more than 640 people who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign was Schwimmer, a Northwestern University alum who co-founded Chicago\u2019s Lookingglass Theatre Company and starred in the long-running series \u201cFriends.\u201d A station representative called Schwimmer\u2019s donation \u201ca particularly timely large gift,\u201d but said she could not confirm the exact amount.<\/p>\n

Also identified as a donor was Garrison Keillor, host of \u201cA Prairie Home Companion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tony Macaluso, director of syndication for WFMT Radio Network and director of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, said a guiding principle of the archive was to do everything possible to make sure that it was accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means making it thoroughly searchable thanks to transcriptions and curated categories, easy and fun for anyone to excerpt and share and quick and effective to re-use, whether by a journalists or radio producers looking to augment a timely story with material from the archive or teachers, artists or scholars looking for just the right sound clip to help bring a historic moment, a celebrated thinker or a social experience to life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Terkel, the Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, died in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sizable donation from actor\/director David Schwimmer helped put a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Studs Terkel Radio Archive over the top this week. WFMT Radio Network surpassed its goal of raising $75,000 three days before the February 25 deadline. As of early Wednesday, more than $84,000 had been pledged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}