Biography
Ira Glass is an American public radio personality who hosts and produces the radio and television series This American Life and has been on other NPR programs including as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. He has received numerous accolades for his work in radio and television, including the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio and the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting.
Age
He is 65 years old as of 3 March 2024. He was born in 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. His real name is Ira Jeffrey Glass.
Family – Education
Glass was raised with two sisters, an older and a younger one, after being born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 3, 1959, to Jewish parents Barry and Shirley Glass. Randi Glass Murray, his older sister, is a literary agent in San Francisco, and Karen Glass Barry, his younger sister, worked as a senior vice president in film production at Disney Studios.
Glass attended Milford Mill High School in Baltimore County, where he served on the editorial board and was a member of the drama club. He appeared in numerous stage performances and was a member of the International Thespian Society. Glass’ journalism approach was largely influenced by musicals. Following graduation, he attended Northwestern University before transferring to Brown University, where he studied semiotics. Roland Barthes introduced him to S/Z, which let him realize his full ability in radio.
Girlfriend – Children
Glass once dated Lynda Barry, a cartoonist and author. She briefly joined him in Washington, D.C., but in the summer of 1989, she relocated to Chicago to be closer to other cartoonists, and Glass followed. Glass married writer and editor Anaheed Alani in August 2005. They had dated before abruptly splitting up, but decided to give the relationship another shot. Glass confirmed on This American Life in March 2017 that he and Alani had separated, and in an interview later that year, he revealed that they had been separating for three years prior. On April 17, 2017, Glass allegedly filed for divorce.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
This American Life
In 1995, the MacArthur Establishment offered Torey Malatia, the senior supervisor of Chicago Public Radio, a $150,000 financial plan to deliver a show highlighting neighborhood scholars and execution specialists. Glass, who at first needed a week by week program, required two months off without pay to deal with the pilot. He kept on creating The Wild Room alone until February 1996.
The show, initially called Your Radio Playhouse, first circulated on November 17, 1995, with an episode named “Fresh starts.” It included interviews with moderator Joe Franklin, Shirley Glass, Kevin Kelly, and Lawrence Steger. The show’s name changed to This American Life and was partnered broadly in June 1996 by Open Radio Worldwide after NPR said no thanks to it.
Glass committed himself to the work, making the day to day drive from his North Side condo and burning through 70 to 80 hours out of every week in the workplaces on the Naval force Wharf. The show immediately got wide approval and is frequently credited with changing the scene of editorial radio in the US. It won a Peabody Grant in something like a half year of its most memorable transmission for greatness in broadcast media.
In 2005, This American Life arrived at its 10th commemoration and communicated interestingly beyond Chicago. The broadcasting company Kickoff moved toward the show’s creation group and proposed changing over it into a TV program. Subsequent to survey the pilot, Kickoff requested six episodes in January 2007, and the primary half-hour episode circulated on Walk 22, 2007. Glass needed to move to New York for shooting and shed 30 pounds over the task.
Chicago Public Media declared it would start self-dissemination of This American Life beginning on July 1, 2014, through Open Radio Trade (PRX). By 2020, the show arrived at more than 4.7 million audience members every week. Glass can be heard in everything except four episodes. In 2013, the 500th episode debuted, and Glass mentioned that his compensation be brought down to $146,000 the next year. He supplements his pay with talking commitment, acquiring him “five figures for each discussion.”
Podcasts
Glass has been a guest on several podcasts, including TBTL. On February 24, 2010, the podcast Freakonomics released a bonus episode (after its first) featuring an interview with Glass on how to create a great podcast. On June 17, 2011, he and his then-wife, Anaheed Alani, appeared on the podcast How Was Your Week, when he confessed that if he didn’t work in radio, he would be a professional poker player.
Glass spoke on The Adam Carolla Podcast on June 24, 2011, where he and Adam Carolla addressed the podcast’s claim to the title of “Most Downloaded Podcast” from the Guinness Book of World Records. On September 19, 2011, Glass made an appearance on WTF Live with Marc Maron. On January 31, 2012, Glass co-hosted Dan Savage’s sex-advice podcast “Savage Love” as a guest. On Monday, November 24, 2014, Glass appeared on the Here’s The Thing podcast. Glass’s interview with Debbie Millman was broadcast on the Season 5 premiere of Storybound in 2022.
Storytelling
The fictional segments were progressively replaced by more reporting in storytelling format, such as the show’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina victims. In 2019, Glass went on tour with his presentation Seven Things I’ve Learned, in which he discusses the craft of storytelling. In 2004, UCLA sponsored a one-night storytelling event titled Visible and Invisible Drawings: An Evening With Chris Ware and Ira Glass. Glass is recognized with pioneering podcasting and modern audio storytelling.
Career
In the mid twentieth 100 years, 19-year-old David Glass was a Baltimore local who worked in different fields, including TV, radio, and publicizing. He was utilized in a shock injury unit at a clinical focus prior to tracking down function as a neglected understudy altering limited time declarations at Public Radio’s base camp in Washington, DC. In the wake of moving on from school, Glass decided to remain with NPR and leave medication, which frustrated his folks.
Glass got back to DC and worked at NPR for quite a long time, at last graduating to being a tape-shaper. He turned into a correspondent and host on a few NPR programs, including Morning Release, In light of everything, and Discussion of the Country. His most memorable show was with NPR’s Joe Straightforward, which impacted him in a “immense way” and showed him how to move away from the activity and move to greater idea and afterward return to the plot.
As he moved toward 30, he had a go at detailing his own accounts yet said he was bad at it and that he performed ineffectively on air, consumed a large chunk of the day to make a solitary piece, and didn’t serious areas of strength for have abilities. During this time, he dated a legal counselor who caused him to feel horrible and didn’t view his work in a serious way or love him.
In 1989, Glass followed his then-sweetheart, illustrator Lynda Barry, to Chicago and subsided into the Lakeview area. He started delivering grant winning reports for NPR’s Taking everything into account, explicitly on school change at Taft Secondary School and Irving Primary School. Glass and Gary Covino made and co-facilitated a Friday-night WBEZ Chicago Public Radio program called The Wild Room, which highlighted diverse substance with a free style and broadcasted without precedent for November 1990.
Glass in the long run burnt out on “freestyle radio” and started sending award proposition to the Partnership for Public Telecom. Beyond radio, Glass has likewise filled in as a print creator, distributing the collection The New Lords of True to life in October 2007.
Glass has teamed up on a few element films, including Unaccompanied Minors, which depends on the genuine story of what befell This American Life contributing proofreader Susan Burton and her sister Betsy at an air terminal one day before Christmas. He likewise composed a screenplay in view of the genuine book Metropolitan Clans about a man who should pick either his companions and his better half.
In 2013, Glass cooperated with Monica Bill Barnes and Company to deliver Three Demonstrations, Two Artists, One Radio Personality and worked close by Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass. In November 2013, Glass visited Google’s base camp and met the Google Doodle group, who aggregately consented to team up with This American Life. They proposed that for Valentine’s Day 2014, they talked with “irregular” individuals about their encounters with adoration in a similar style as the radio program.
In 2019, Glass went on visit with the show Seven Things I’ve Realized, where he discusses the specialty of narrating. The titles of the show’s demonstrations incorporate “How to recount a story”, “Save the feline”, “Disappointment is Achievement”, “Entertain yourself,” and “It’s conflict”.