Tag: Ira Glass
With new independent film, Ira Glass and TAL dream big
'Sleepwalk With Me,' is the program's latest (and biggest) attempt to break into the movie business.Ira Glass on his nervous pitch to monologist Mike Daisey
Current’s Feb. 27 story on This American Life’s recent breakthroughs with enterprise reporting describes the inspiration behind “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the story ...Adapting Daisey’s staged monologue for radio: less shouting, more intimacy
Update: On March 16, This American Life retracted “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” its Jan. 6 broadcast that adapted monologist Mike Daisey’s story ...Glass & Co.: Emboldened to tell hard-news stories
Update: On March 16, This American Life retracted “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” its Jan. 6 broadcast that adapted monologist Mike Daisey’s story ...Public radio ‘dancing at the edge of change’
There’s some heavy-duty soul-searching going on in public radio. The Public Radio Program Directors conference, Sept. 20–23 in Baltimore, sidelined its usual ...Georgia ramble turns exposé
Ira Glass didn’t know what he was in for when he walked into the post office in the seaside burg of Brunswick, ...This American Life: The pimp show turned out to be rare error, thank God
This American Life is hot. The weekly radio program produced by WBEZ, Chicago, and distributed nationally since June 1996, airs on 325 public radio ...Mo’ better radio
Believe it or not, there's a stone tablet full of radio principles guiding This American Life. Ira Glass laid them out in a talk ...If you love ‘This American Life,’ you really love it
This American Life is unlike anything on public radio. But what would you expect from a man who once devoted an hour of Talk of ...
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