It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995 at WBEZ, in Chicago, ...

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Ira Glass is a writer, producer, storyteller, performer, and a familiar voice. His show This American Life has set the contemporary standard of nonfiction radio shows, and has influenced and inspired ...

With Podcast Canon, Benjamin Cannon analyzes the history of podcasts and interrogates how we talk about the art form. In December of 1995, Your Radio Playhouse broadcast its first episode on Chicago’s ...

A colleague shared with me a photo of a Post-it note with the words “Become Empathy Machines!” scrawled on it, taken at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2016. [1] It ...

The long-running radio show and podcast This American Life is moving its podcast ad sales to National Public Media from New York Times Co. in the latest sign of shifting fortunes in the podcast ...

During a time when a lot of us feel like we are living in a holding pattern, stories of people feeling stuck. Words can seem so puny and ineffective sometimes. On this show, we have stories in which ...

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