Who is Ira Glass?
Ira Glass is the host and producer of This American Life. The program premiered on WBEZ in Chicago on November 17th, 1995 and launched nationally in June of 1996. In 1997… the program won the prestigious Peabody Award. Glass has worked for NPR for 18 years, starting when he was 19 years old. At one point or another, he has worked on nearly every NPR network news program, and done virtually every production job in NPR’s Washington headquarters. He has been a tape cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor and producer. He has filled in as host of Talk of the Nation and Weekend All Things Considered. He produced the pilots and helped design the format of the late-night program Heat with John Hockenberry. From 1989 until 1995, Ira Glass was a reporter in NPR News’ Chicago Bureau. For two years, he covered Chicago school reform for NPR’s All Things Considered, with two unusual series of reports. The first followed Taft High School for an entire school year. The second followed Washi
Ira Glass is an American public radio host best known for his radio and television show This American Life. Glass’ radio show debuted in 1995, and the television version first aired in March 2007 on Showtime. Each hour-long radio show consists of a series of narrative “acts” on a range of typically non-fiction topics. Ira Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 3 March 1959. His father, Barry Glass, was an accountant and radio announcer, and his mother, Shirley, was a psychologist. Ira Glass was active in student theater during his time at Mitford Mill High School. He also dabbled in the radio world as a teenager, writing jokes for Baltimore disc jockey Jonny Walker. After graduation, Glass attended Northwestern University, later transferring to Brown University, where he majored in semiotics. Ira Glass made his on-air debut as R2D2 on a local radio show in 1977. He moved to Chicago, where he began working on Chicago Public Radio, in 1989 in order to be with his then girlfriend, carto
