Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of Showtime's "This American Life." He is also the host and producer of the public radio program, which had its premiere on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners, distributed by Public Radio International. The podcast of the show is consistently one of the most popular in America.
Glass began his career as a 19-year-old intern at National Public
Under Glass's editorial direction, "This American Life" has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and duPont-Columbia awards, as well as the Edward R. Murrow and the Overseas Press Club awards. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "…at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." It has won critical acclaim and attracted continuous national media attention over the years. In 2001, Time magazine named Glass "Best Radio Host in America."
In 2007, Riverhead Books published "The New Kings of Non-Fiction," a collection of narrative non-fiction essays edited by Glass. A feature film, "Unaccompanied Minors," based on a story from the radio show was released by Warner Bros. in December 2006. The show has spawned its own comic book, three greatest hits compilations, a paint-by-numbers set, a "radio decoder" toy and a DVD, which was created with cartoonist Chris Ware.
While producing the Showtime series, Glass and his staff continue to create original radio shows.
Glass began his career as a 19-year-old intern at National Public
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Radio's network headquarters in Washington, DC in 1978. Over the years, he worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job in NPR's Washington, DC headquarters. He has been a tape cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor, and producer, and has filled in as host of "Talk of the Nation" and "Weekend All Things Considered."Under Glass's editorial direction, "This American Life" has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including the Peabody and duPont-Columbia awards, as well as the Edward R. Murrow and the Overseas Press Club awards. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "…at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." It has won critical acclaim and attracted continuous national media attention over the years. In 2001, Time magazine named Glass "Best Radio Host in America."
In 2007, Riverhead Books published "The New Kings of Non-Fiction," a collection of narrative non-fiction essays edited by Glass. A feature film, "Unaccompanied Minors," based on a story from the radio show was released by Warner Bros. in December 2006. The show has spawned its own comic book, three greatest hits compilations, a paint-by-numbers set, a "radio decoder" toy and a DVD, which was created with cartoonist Chris Ware.
While producing the Showtime series, Glass and his staff continue to create original radio shows.
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