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Ira Glass is most renowned as the host and producer of Chicago Public Radio's "This American Life". He was born on March 3, 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland. Glass's professional public radio career spans more than 20 years. He started as an intern at National Public Radio. Initially he worked as a reporter and host on various NPR programs, consisting Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Glass was hugely influenced by Joe Frank's national public radio show. And it was the first show that he worked on.
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In 1988, Glass was entitled as one of a handful of "Young Journalists of the Year" by the Livingston Foundation. In 1991, the National Association of Black Journalists awarded him. During the 1992 Presidential Campaign, he toured with the Clinton entrouge, and in January 1993, he hosted NPR's live airing of the Clinton Inauguration. Glass has been hosting and producing, This American Life, since 1995, from WBEZ. The show was nationally organized in June 1996 and was distributed by Public Radio International. It had a record of reaching over 1.6 million listeners weekly. On November 17, 2005, This American Life celebrated its 10th anniversary. In the celebration of the anniversary, the first episode was telecasted as a special episode, "New Beginnings". Prior to this, the first episode had never been broadcasted outside of Chicago. That first episode consisted of interviews with talk-show host Joe Franklin and Ira's mother, as well as stories by Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired, and filmmaker, performance artist Lawrence Steger.
During high school, Glass wrote jokes for Baltimore radio personality Johnny Walker. In September 1999, Ira got together on a comic book titled Radio: An Illustrated Guide with Jessica Abel. He also assisted as one of the executive producers of the 2006 feature film Unaccompanied Minors. It is a true story of what occurred with This American Life contributing editor Susan Burton and her sister Betsy at an airport on the day after Christmas. On March 22, 2007, Glass and company started broadcasting a television version of This American Life as half hour episodes on the Showtime network.
Glass recently appeared on the show "An Evening with Ira Glass & Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God". This was a special event in which Julia Sweeney performed for an hour. Following this performance, Ira Glass come together onstage and Ira interviewed and hosted a second hour of conversation, to talk more deeply about the motifs of the evening performance.
