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Ira Glass ( Full name: Ira Jeffrey Glass ) is an American public radio personality. He currently serves as the host and producer of the radio and television series called This American Life. Ira has also been a participant in other NPR programs, such as Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition.
Due to his work in radio and television, Ira has won several awards such as the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio as well as the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting. He is a Baltimore native who started his career by working in radio while still a teenager. While a student at Brown University, Iran worked alongside Keith Talbot at NPR during his summer breaks.
Also, the journalsit worked as a story editor and interviewer for years prior to starting to cover his own stories in his late twenties. Ira continued to work on the public radio programs such as All Things Considered and The Wild Room after moving to Chicago. He also co-hosted The Wild Room. He and Torey Malatia developed the show called This American Life after Ira received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Within its first six months, the show won a Peabody Award and became nationally syndicated one year later. Later on, the show was formulated into a television program of the same name on Showtime. The program ran for two seasons. Currently, Ira performs a live show and has also contributed to or written articles, books, as well as comic books related to the radio show.
Ira Glass Age
He was born on March 3, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Ira is 62 years old.
Ira Glass Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Ira stands at a height of 6 ft 2 in ( Approx 1.88m).
Ira Glass Family
He was born to Jewish parents Barry Glass and Shirley Glass on March 3, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Ira grew up with his younger sister called Karen Glass Barry ( former senior vice president in film development at Disney Studios) and older sisters called Randi Glass Murray ( a literary agent based in San Francisco,). As a child, the journalist wanted to be an astronaut but his parents hoped he would become a doctor. Ira loved comedy from a young age and his family frequented the theater. At the age of 11, Ira and his sister put on shows in their house’s basement and invited neighborhood children to watch. As a teenager, Ira he moonlighted as a magician.
Ira Glass Wife
He dated Lynda Barry ( cartoonist and author) for some time. Lynda briefly joined Ira in Washington, D.C., but she moved to Chicago to be near her fellow cartoonists in the summer of 1989 and Iran followed her. In August 2005, Iran married his ex-wife Anaheed Alani. The two had dated before splitting harshly and then decided to give the relationship another try. Ira announced on This American Life in March 2017 that he and Anaheed had separated.
Ira Glass Education
He attended Milford Mill High School in Baltimore County. While there, Ira held editorial roles as a member of the school’s yearbook staff. Also, he served as the co-editor of the student literary magazine. After graduating from high school, Ira joined Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. he was initially a pre-medical student and his fellow alums are Mary Zimmerman and David Sedaris. Later, Ira transferred to Brown University and concentrated in semiotics. Ira graduated from the University in 1982.
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The MacArthur Foundation approached the general manager of Chicago Public Radio, Torey Malatia, in 1995 with an offer of US$150,000 to produce a show that featured local Chicago writers as well as performance artists. Torey approached Ira with the idea. Ira countered that he always dreamt of doing a weekly program with a different premise, a budget of US$300,000, and a desire to make it a national show. He took two months off with no pay so as to work on the pilot. However, Ira didn’t include his co-host in his plans, assuring him that the deal was unlikely to happen.
Covino says that he felt “betrayed” after the show went on without him. However, he continued to produce The Wild Room alone until February 1996. Ira invited David Sedaris to read his essays on the program prior to producing Sedaris’ commentaries on NPR as well as contributing to Sedaris’s success as an independent author. They originally named the show Your Radio Playhouse with its first episode titled “New Beginnings” airing on November 17, 1995.
Later, the show’s name changed to This American Life with its first episode under this name airing on March 21, 1996. The show was syndicated nationally by Public Radio International in June 1996 after NPR passed on it. Ira devoted himself to the effort by making the daily commute from his North Side apartment. He also spent 70 to 80 hours in the offices every week on the Navy Pier. Within six months of its first broadcast, the show won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast media.
Ira Glass This American Life
Over the years, guest contributors of the show included Spalding Gray, Anne Lamott, Tobias Wolff, Michael Chabon, Sarah Vowell, and Dave Eggers. This American Life reached its tenth anniversary on November 17, 2005. The following week, it broadcast for the first time outside of Chicago in celebration. The show’s production team was approached by The television network Showtime and proposed to convert This American Life into a television program.
The team refused for the first time since they never wanted to compromise the format and make something “tacky and awful.” However, they later agreed to make the program for television after Showtime conceded to different conditions such as a format that did not resemble a news magazine. Showtime ordered six episodes in January 2007 after viewing the pilot, with the first half-hour episode airing on March 22, 2007.
Ira was forced to move to New York for filming. In an interview with Patt Morrison on Southern California Public Radio, Ira revealed that he lost 30 pounds (14 kg) over the project. The show ended in 2009 after airing thirteen episodes over two seasons. The show ended due to the heavy workload needed to produce it. On July 1, 2014, Chicago Public Media made an announcement that it would start self-distribution of This American Life starting via Public Radio Exchange (PRX).
This American Life reached over 4.7 million listeners each week by 2020. Currently, Ira can be heard in all but four episodes. The 500th show was aired in July 2013. This American Life radio show episode called “Return to the Scene of the Crime” was broadcast live in May 2009 to over 300 movie theaters.
Ira Glass Podcast
Ira and his ex-wife Anaheed appeared on the podcast How Was Your Week on June 17, 2011, and he revealed that, if he were not on the radio, he would be a professional poker player. He filed for divorce on April 17, 2017.
Ira Glass Book
– Radio: An Illustrated Guide written with Jessica Abel and published in 1999.
– The New Kings of Nonfiction published in 2007
Ira Glass Quote
– “The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”
– “Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– “Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”
– “We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
Ira Glass Salary
The WBEZ board voted to raise Ira’s salary from $170,000 annually to $278,000 for the 2013 fiscal year but he requested that it be lowered to $146,000 the following year. Ira has since asked for it to be lowered again, calling the original sum “unseemly”.
Ira Glass Net Worth
He is an American public radio personality with an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Who Is Ira Glass
Ira is an American public radio personality. He currently serves as the host and producer of the radio and television series called This American Life. Ira has also been a participant in other NPR programs, such as Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition.
Is Ira Glass Married
Ira dated Lynda Barry ( cartoonist and author) for some time. In August 2005, Iran married his ex-wife Anaheed Alani. The two had dated before splitting harshly and then decided to give the relationship another try. Ira announced on This American Life in March 2017 that he and Anaheed had separated.
How Old Is Ira Glass
Ira is a 62-year-old American public radio personality who was born on March 3, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.