Ira Glass, the award-winning creator, producer and host of NPR's "This American Life" brings "Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening With Ira Glass" to the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Media sponsor for this event is WBEZ 91.5 FM.
Using audio clips, music, and video, Glass shares lessons from his life and career in storytelling and gives insight into what inspires him to create, what drives his passion, and how failures and successes informed his decisions. During his presentation, Ira Glass will mix stories live onstage and help his audience better follow the creative process of one of our foremost storytellers. Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's headquarters in DC. Over the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did nearly every production job they had: tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. He spent a year in a high school for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing stories for "All Things Considered." He moved to Chicago in 1989 and put "This American Life" on the air in 1995. "This American Life" celebrated its 20th anniversary last year and, under Glass's editorial direction, has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including five Peabody awards. The American Journalism Review has hailed the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." "This American Life" currently reaches 2.2 million listeners on more than 500 public radio stations in the U.S., Australia and Canada, with another 2.2 million downloading each podcast. For years, it was the most popular podcast on iTunes, until the "This American Life" staff created the program "Serial," which ran for two seasons and had more than 10 million people downloading each episode.
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