Tag: This American Life
Ira Glass developing new scripted series about transgender man with Sundance Channel
This American Life host and public radio superstar Ira Glass continues his foray into scripted entertainment, as a producer of a new television series ...David Rakoff, This American Life contributor, dies at 47
Humorist and essayist David Rakoff, a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life since the program’s inception, died Aug. 9 after a ...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.Daisey, onstage and off air, revives his ‘Agony and Ecstasy’
“There is no objective, journalistic version of the show,” Daisey said. “I will be, always, making constant lies of omission by leaving ...Simple Googling dug up what Daisey had hidden
Within a few hours of phoning the translator who refuted key details in a This American Life show about factories that manufacture Apple products ...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 ...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, ...Mobile giving a ‘no-brainer’ for TAL postcast audience
It’s not the best way to collect big annual gifts from station members, pubcasting fundraisers agree. But This American Life’s producers confirmed that giving-by-texting ...Planet Money grew ‘organically’ from ‘A Giant Pool of Money’
In this Q&A, Karen Everhart talks with This American Life producer Alex Blumberg and NPR reporter Adam Davidson.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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