Ira Glass

Ira Glass created the acclaimed radio and television series ‘This American Life,’ which launched as ‘Your Radio Playhouse’ in November 1995 and was subsequently renamed in March 1996. The program quickly achieved national syndication and earned a Peabody Award within its first six months. Prior to this landmark achievement, Glass spent 17 years at NPR, beginning in 1978 as an intern at their Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio in 2009, and the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting in 2011. In 2013, he received the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2014. Most recently, Ira Glass and the ‘This American Life’ team were honored with the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2020 for their groundbreaking episode ‘The Out Crowd,’ marking a historic recognition for audio journalism. Under his continued leadership, ‘This American Life’ remains a cornerstone of innovative storytelling, consistently delivering compelling narratives to millions of listeners nationwide and internationally each week.