"by MailChimp, a frequent podcast advertiser, and salaried staff positions were initially funded by WBEZ. Admitting the podcast was funded from ""This American Life""s budget during the launch, producer Koenig noted that ""Serial"" would eventually need to generate its own funding. She said, ""Everyone's saying 'It's podcasting! It's internet! ""Of course"" there'll be money somewhere.' We're not exactly sure yet."" Dana Chivvis, another producer, observed that, since the industry is still in its infancy, a business model for podcasting has yet to be established. Towards the end of the first season, producers asked for public donations to fund a second"
"This American Life This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage. The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse. The series was distributed by Public Radio International until June 2014, when the program became self-distributed with"
"episodes of Season 1 of ""Orange Is the New Black"", Robert Stanton portrays a radio personality, Maury Kind who hosts an NPR show called ""Urban Tales"", a fictional portrayal of ""This American Life"". The 2014 motion picture ""Veronica Mars"" depicts the character of Stosh ""Piz"" Piznarski working at ""This American Life."" Host Ira Glass appears in a cameo role as himself, and many ""This American Life"" staffers appear in background roles. In 2018, in Season 12, Episode 9 of ""The Big Bang Theory"": ""The Citation Negation"", Leonard asks Amy if the podcast she is listening to is ""This American Life."""
"Mike Birbiglia, who made a short film with Terry Gross. On June 7, 2014, ""This American Life"" recorded a fourth live event titled ""The Radio Drama Episode"". Contributors included Carin Gilfry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Birbiglia, Joshua Bearman, and Sasheer Zamata. The episode was broadcast on radio and the podcast on June 20, 2014. From 1998 to 2005, the program could be accessed online in two formats: a free RealAudio stream available from the official show website, and a DRM-encrypted download available through Audible.com, which charged $4 per episode. In early 2006, the program began to offer MP3 copies of each"
"for creating the feeds. , a typical podcast episode was downloaded 750,000 times. In February 2010, Public Radio Exchange launched a mobile app on Apple's iTunes Store. This app contains MP3 audio of the podcast. In October 2016, ""This American Life"" launched an app called Shortcut to allow listeners to share short audio clips on social media, similar to the way gifs allow social media users to share video clips. Stephanie Foo served as project lead, collaborating with developers Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi of Feel Train. In the app, listeners can select an audio clip of up to 30"
"any other ideas, she mentioned podcasting a story that unfolded over time, a serialized narrative. In an interview with ""Mother Jones"", she explained that each episode would return to the same story, telling the next chapter of a long, true narrative. Episode one of the series was released on October 3, 2014, with additional episodes released weekly online. Glass introduced it as a spinoff of his popular radio program, ""This American Life"", and aired episode one on his show. He explained, ""We want to give you the same experience you get from a great HBO or Netflix series, where you"
"the show in September 2016. Three years in, the team decided to “try their hand at something new.” They released ""This is Love"", a new podcast that “investigates life's most persistent mystery.” Season one launched on Valentine’s Day, 2018. The six-episode weekly series explores “stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other.” Season two comes out in the fall of 2018. ""Criminal"" has been described as ""the best new radio show in America"" in ""The Huffington Post"", as ""the thinking person’s true crime podcast"" in ""The News & Observer"", and as ""the purist’s"
"piece as one of ""Reply All""'s ""most provocative episodes."" In 2015, Foo launched her own podcast called ""Pilot"", with each installment to serve as a pilot episode for a different genre of podcast. CBC's Lindsay Michael named ""Pilot"" to a 2016 list of five best recent podcasts, saying Foo has ""created her own playground...A place where she can try things out and see how they go."" Foo served as the project lead on the development of an app from ""This American Life"", launched in October 2016, called Shortcut. Produced in collaboration with developers Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi of Feel"
"American Life"", he worked as a freelance radio reporter, contributing to ""This American Life"", the Savvy Traveller and Chicago Public Radio. In 2008 he collaborated with National Public Radio economics correspondent Adam Davidson to co-host the Planet Money podcast, which posts new episodes twice weekly. In August 2014, he started Gimlet Media along with Matthew Lieber. Initially pitched as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Gimlet Media is a podcasting business. Blumberg documented the startup process in the first season of a podcast hosted on Gimlet Media, titled StartUp. The second season follows ""Dating Ring"", another startup company. Apart from StartUp,"
"personal and true-to-life alternative to the way Israel is often portrayed in many news outlets. During a 20,000-kilometer (12,400 mile) road trip across the United States, host Mishy Harman was introduced to the popular radio show, ‘This American Life’ hosted by Ira Glass. Harman soon became addicted to the show’s compelling human-interest stories. When Harman returned home to Jerusalem after the road trip, he convinced three childhood friends to join him in creating an Israeli podcast based on This American Life’s style of storytelling. On July 19, 2013 the Israel Story team released its first episode. Initially, they hoped to"
"show on the grounds that Ira Glass was ""not famous enough"" to be parodied on ""Saturday Night Live"". Glass then invited Armisen to impersonate him as a guest co-host for an episode of ""This American Life"" in January 2013. In 2012, in Season 6, Episode 12 of ""30 Rock"": ""St. Patrick's Day"", Ira Glass's voice appears on the radio, apparently presenting TAL, with his studio having been overrun by drunken thugs. In 2013, Stanley Chase III, Mickey Dwyer, Ken Fletcher, and Matt Gifford launched the parody podcast ""That American Life"" on iTunes, which is hosted by ""Ira Class"". In two"
"This American Life (TV series) This American Life is an American television series based on the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, the series is hosted by Ira Glass. The series premiered on March 22, 2007. Two seasons of the show have aired on Showtime. The second season finale aired on June 8, 2008, and Showtime aired one final episode in May 2009. In September 2009, Glass announced that he and the other creators of the show had ""asked to be taken off TV"", largely in part to the difficult schedule required to produce a television"
"a producer for ""This American Life"" in January 2004. She co-produced the 2006 Peabody Award-winning episode of ""This American Life"" titled ""Habeas Schmabeas."" In 2013, she began work on a spinoff podcast of the ""This American Life"" radio program titled ""Serial"", which debuted in October 2014. ""Serial"" was honored with a Peabody award in April 2015, noting that it took podcasting into the cultural mainstream. ""TIME"" magazine named Koenig one of ""The 100 Most Influential People"" on April 16, 2015. Also in 2015, she was named as one of ""The Forward 50"". Koenig is the daughter of advertising copywriter Julian"
"more than 1.7 million listeners on more than 500 stations weekly, with an average listening time of 48 minutes. Glass can be heard in all but four episodes. In July 2013, the 500th show was aired. On November 17, 2005, ""This American Life"" celebrated its tenth anniversary. The following week, as a special show celebrating the anniversary, the first episode, ""New Beginnings,"" was re-broadcast. Prior to this, the first episode had never been aired outside of Chicago. When the first episode was broadcast in 1995, the show was known as ""Your Radio Playhouse."" That first episode includes interviews with talk-show"
"this. After that brief period, a female producer who only spoke over the ""loud speaker"" during the Sampler Platter. She seems to be the voice on the show's intro also. A female identified as ""Suzannah, captain of the Non-Men"" has recently been identified as the producer. During this era, the co-host became the Iceman. He is bombastic and likes to make up multi-syllabic words. His love for all teams Boston has been made known on several occasions. In 2013, the show moved to podcasts in lieu of live radio. Matt became known as ""The Phat Man"" and the Iceman was"
"changed from ""Speaking of Faith"" to ""On Being"". In 2013, Tippett left APM to start the non-profit production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which she described as ""a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart"". As of July 2014, ""On Being"" aired on 334 public radio stations across the United States, and the ""On Being"" podcast reached a global audience of 1.5 million listeners a month. ""On Being"" was listed in the iTunes top ten podcasts of 2014. In 2016, ""On Being"" changed distributors from APM to the Public Radio Exchange. The ""Columbia Journalism Review"" said of ""On"
"on the same project. Stephanie Foo Stephanie Foo (born 1987) is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for ""Snap Judgment"" and ""This American Life"". Foo was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States with her family when she was two years old. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz. Foo taught high school journalism after college, and began listening to ""This American Life"" and ""Radiolab"". She eventually decided to try her hand at it, hitchhiking to a pornography convention in search of a story and ultimately starting a podcast called ""Get Me On This American"
"its release. S-Town podcast received the Peabody Award for 2017 in the category Radio/Podcast. George Foster Peabody Award S-Town S-Town is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Brian Reed and created by the producers of ""Serial"" and ""This American Life"". All seven chapters were released on March 28, 2017. The podcast was downloaded a record-breaking 10 million times in four days, and it had been downloaded over 40 million times by May of 2017. In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show ""This American Life"" asking them to investigate an alleged murder"
"may be similar in concept to Lisa Ling’s previous show, ""Our America"". However, Ling told the Huffington Post that ""This is Life"" will be “edgier” and “much more in your face” than the last series, which aired on OWN. This Is Life with Lisa Ling This Is Life with Lisa Ling is a CNN original documentary television series produced by Brooklyn-based production company Part2 Pictures and American journalist Lisa Ling, who is also the show’s host. The program was announced on April 14, 2014, and its first season premiered September 28, 2014. Lisa Ling is a writer, journalist, and former"
"Stephanie Foo Stephanie Foo (born 1987) is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for ""Snap Judgment"" and ""This American Life"". Foo was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States with her family when she was two years old. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz. Foo taught high school journalism after college, and began listening to ""This American Life"" and ""Radiolab"". She eventually decided to try her hand at it, hitchhiking to a pornography convention in search of a story and ultimately starting a podcast called ""Get Me On This American Life"". Another early audio"
"news analyst for the Breakfast Blast Newscast on Kids Place Live on SiriusXM radio. Raz served as a Ferris Professor of journalism at Princeton University and taught journalism at Georgetown University and George Washington University. In September 2016, Guy Raz started hosting a new podcast on NPR, called How I Built This about entrepreneurship. In 2017, it became one of the 20 most-downloaded podcasts in the United States. In May 2017, Raz created NPR's first-ever children's program. The podcast, Wow in the World, was co-created with award-winning children's host Mindy Thomas. Raz and Thomas also created a children's production company,"
"York Times"" journalist Catrin Einhorn. Calhoun is half-Chinese through his mother. Ben Calhoun Benjamin Chang Calhoun (born 1979) is an American radio journalist and a producer for the public radio program ""This American Life"" and the podcast ""Serial"". Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he now lives in New Jersey. Calhoun left ""This American Life"" from 2014 to 2017 to serve as Vice President of Content and Programming at WBEZ, the NPR affiliate in Chicago. Prior to that, Calhoun produced and reported for ""This American Life"". Calhoun has taught at Loyola University Chicago and lectured at other universities. Prior to his work"
"new contract to continue the SiriusXM show, which appears on the rebranded Opie Radio channel. Cumia announced on July 8, 2014, that he would launch a new Internet-based podcast as ""The Anthony Cumia Show"", which began airing in August 2014. This show was kept separate from his old internet radio show ""Live from the Compound,"" which Anthony had set up as a hobby, unrelated to his future show in the same studio. Cumia's website later specified that ""his live, uncensored HD video podcast"" called ""The Anthony Cumia Show"" would launch on August 4. Beginning in August 2014 the show aired"
"and they then edit the raw tape to create an episode-length story. Richman's pieces have appeared on NPR's ""All Things Considered"", and ""This American Life"", and on BBC Radio. In 2013, Richman started the ""Radio Diaries"" podcast, as a showcase for his pieces. The podcast later became one of the founding members of Radiotopia. In 2018 Radiotopia created a short-form exclusive podcast for its financial supporters. Each episode of ""Radiotopia Plus"" poses a question that the each of the network's show hosts and producers answer. In 2017 Radiotopia launched ""Showcase"" after putting out an open call for new podcast proposals."
"became the first non-musical act ever to play the iTunes Festival. ""Answer Me This!"" was nominated for Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011, in the category ""Best Internet Programme""; in 2010, the podcast won the silver award and in 2011, it won the gold award. In 2012, it won a European Podcast Award. The broadcast frequency was changed from weekly to fortnightly in January 2014, then to monthly from December 2016. The 300th episode was broadcast in October 2014. ""Answer Me This!"" is hosted by Zaltzman, Mann, and Dr. Martin Austwick (a.k.a. ""Martin the Sound Man""). Mann"
"Borders on January 20, 2009. The set was given a wide release on July 17, 2009. This American Life (TV series) This American Life is an American television series based on the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, the series is hosted by Ira Glass. The series premiered on March 22, 2007. Two seasons of the show have aired on Showtime. The second season finale aired on June 8, 2008, and Showtime aired one final episode in May 2009. In September 2009, Glass announced that he and the other creators of the show had ""asked to"
"that week's show. Content varies widely by episode. Stories are often told as first-person narratives. The mood of the show ranges from gloomy to ironic, from thought-provoking to humorous. The show often addresses current events, such as Hurricane Katrina in ""After the Flood."" Often ""This American Life"" features stories which explore aspects of human nature, such as ""Kid Logic,"" which presented pieces on the reasoning of children. The end credits of each show are read by Glass, and include a sound clip extracted out of context from some portion of that show, which Glass humorously attributes to previous WBEZ general"
"Alex Blumberg Alex Blumberg is an American entrepreneur, radio journalist, former producer for public radio and television, best known for his work with ""This American Life"" and ""Planet Money"". He is the co-founder and CEO of the podcast network Gimlet Media. Blumberg received a B.A. from Oberlin College and is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University. From 1999-2014 he was the producer for the public radio show ""This American Life"" and his stories were regularly featured on the show. From 2007-2009 he was the executive producer of the television version of ""This American Life"". Prior to ""This"
"had resurfaced in episode streams due to a website redesign. Though the segments are cut from the streams of the episodes, the transcript of the contents were kept accessible on the ""This American Life"" website. These were from the episodes ""57: Delivery"", ""79: Stuck in the wrong decade"", and ""86: How to take money from strangers"". In 2014, it was announced that PRI would stop distributing the show in July. After a few months, in May, Glass announced that the staff would be distributing the show themselves, with Public Radio Exchange doing the technical legwork to deliver the audio to"
"Chicago to work as a producer on the show. Many of Goldstein's pieces have been featured on ""This American Life"" where he is a contributing editor. From 2000 to 2002 he was also a producer of the show. In 2002, Goldstein returned to Montreal and started work on several projects for CBC Radio One. He hosted ""WireTap"", which debuted in 2004 and ended in 2015. The program featured stories told over the phone. In May 2014, Goldstein played an ""expert witness"" in humorist John Hodgman's comedy/court show podcast ""Judge John Hodgman"". In September 2016, Goldstein began a new podcast, ""Heavyweight"","
"follow some detour or left turn, explore music we love, take you to live events, and generally try to shake up your universe"". These extra podcasts, referred to as ""Shorts"", are occasionally combined into full-length compilation episodes. ""Radiolab"" has been widely acclaimed among listeners and critics alike. Around 1.8 million listeners tune in to the show, though most of them access it via podcasts. It has even been hailed, along with ""This American Life"", as one of the most innovative shows on American radio. In a 2007–2008 study by Multimedia Research (sponsored by the National Science Foundation), it was determined"
"made its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Drumming is a producer for ""This American Life"". He's also been on air for the show, reporting segments around themes of family and friendship. While at the ""Washington City Paper"" in the late 1990s, Drumming became a close friend of writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, then still a student at Howard University; Drumming eventually became godfather to Coates's son. In a 2015 segment of ""This American Life"", the two discussed the trajectory of their friendship over the next two decades of their personal lives and respective careers in media. Neil Drumming"
"Planet Money Planet Money is an American podcast and blog produced by NPR. Using ""creative and entertaining"" dialogue and narrative, Planet Money claims to be ""The Economy Explained"". The podcast launched on September 6, 2008 to cover the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 in the wake of the Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was created after the success of ""The Giant Pool of Money"", an episode of ""This American Life"". As of 2018, episodes are hosted by Robert Smith, Stacey Vanek Smith, Kenny Malone, Ailsa Chang, Jacob Goldstein, Noel King, Sarah Gonzalez, Karen Duffin and Cardiff"