Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. The show is heard
each week by over 5 million listeners on public radio stations and podcast.
Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington,
DC in 1978, when he was 19 years old. He put This American Life on the air in 1995. He also served
as an editor for the groundbreaking podcasts Serial, S-Town and Nice White Parents.
Under Glass’s editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and
journalistic excellence, including nine Peabody awards and the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded foraudio journalism. In 2021 This American Life episode ‘The Giant Pool of Money’ was inducted into
the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, the first podcast ever so honored. In 2025
This American Life, Serial, S-Town and Nice White Parents were listed on Time magazine’s 100 Best
Podcasts of All Time.