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• Ira Glass Can Save Your Life (with Narrative Suspense)

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 477
  Good stories happen to people who can tell them. Or in the case of Queen Scheherazade from “Arabian Nights,” good stories happen to a young woman whose only hope at dodging her own gruesome beheading is to leave her homicidal husband on a narrative cliffhanger 1,001 nights in a row until the morning he finally ...
  2 days ago

• Anvil! & Salt Win Top 2009 IDA Awards

  
  Prof. Kobre's Guide to Videojournalism — Authority: 127
  The International Documentary Association awarded Anvil! The Story of Anvil ( pictured ) the top prize in its Distinguished Feature category. The documentary about a struggling heavy metal band, directed by Sacha Gervasi, last week won the IDAs Music category as well. Salt , directed by Michael Angus and Murray ...
  4 days ago

• Wiki-Wiki-Yeah!: A Conversation With Jimmy Wales

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 477
  If you missed the boat on scoring tickets to the  *sold out* Ira Glass talk at Zellerbach Hall tonight, please … please don’t cry. We’re bloggers. Which is just a nice way of saying “emotional cripples.” We’re ill-equipped to deal with tears. But seriously, don’t worry because Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, ...
  5 days ago

• The Chuck Klosterman Interview Part 1: Eating the Dinosaur, the State of Entertainment Journalism, and Whether or Not Avatar is Geekdom’s Chinese Democracy

  
  /Film — Authority: 783
  Any pop culture writer worth a scan online today has a unique opinion on Chuck Klosterman . The renown American author and journalist made a name for himself in the aughts with witty, hyper-informed contributions as a former senior writer and columnist at SPIN. In 2003, he released a bestselling book of essays ...
  6 days ago

• Ira Glass and Regina Spektor on David Letterman

  
  kayfabe — Authority: 544
  Ira Glass and Regina Spektor on David Letterman
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• Intl Documentary Assn Awards Announced

  
  Prof. Kobre's Guide to Videojournalism — Authority: 127
  The 2009 International Documentary Associations Awards ceremony will take place on Friday, Dec. 4 in Los Angeles. Winners were announced today in several major categories, including Limited Series (Sundance Channel’s Architecture School); Continuing Series (PBS POV, in its 22nd season); and Music (Anvil! The ...
  1 week ago

• Review: Magpie Project’s “The Happy Family Series”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 136
  A Weird and Gifted “Family” Pulls It Together The Magpies Project present: The Happy Family Series: Demonstrations Exploring “Harmonic Antagonisms ” inspired by P.T. Barnum ’s “ The Happy Family ” Curated by Shawn Reddy Emceed by H.B. Ward a.k.a. "The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bugging Jonathan Goldstein

  
  Radio Sweethearts — Authority: 118
  You probably already know this, but Jonathan Goldstein, of “This American Life” fame, has his own radio show, “ WireTap ,” that runs on the CBC Radio One in Canada, and, via Public Radio International, several American public radio stations. "Alberto Gonzales on line 2...." by Vaguely Artistic, Flickr. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Currently watching Season 1.

  
  Peter W. Knox — Authority: 654
  Currently watching Season 1.
  3 weeks ago

• Nominees Announced for the 2009 International Documentary Association IDA Awards

  
  IMOOVIZINE — Authority: 120
  "Diary of a Times Square Thief" Directed & Written by Klaas Bense The nominees for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced this week. The winners will be announced December 4th at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles, in a ceremony hosted by This ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ira Glass Teaches Storytelling (4-part video)

  
  Prof. Kobre's Guide to Videojournalism — Authority: 127
  The problem with many attempts at videojournalism is that they are passable reports, but are deficient in the storytelling department. TV newsmagazine afficianados know that what engages an audience is more than merely an assemblage of facts and figures. We all respond better to a central character, dramatic ...
  4 weeks ago

• I’m On This American Life (this weekend)

  
  Off The Map — Authority: 92
  By Jim Henderson The call came about 10 days ago “Got any bait and switch stories Jim?” A writer with TAL was on the phone calling me. I’m a huge Ira Glass fan. However, I’m nothing compared to some of my 30 and under friends. They said things like… “I would quit my job and move to NY and work ...
  4 weeks ago

• Real Journalism from This American Life

  
  Ben Sternke — Authority: 118
  One of the things that Tim Keller points out in his new book Counterfeit Gods is how polarized American political discourse has become in the past few years. Rarely in the TV news world do you find anyone interested in having an actual discussion with someone from “the other side.” Everything quickly devolves ...
  5 weeks ago

• Panel Nerds: Ira Glass and Etgar Keret’s “This Israeli Life”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 787
  Who : Writer Etgar Keret interviewed by This American Life host Ira Glass What : Live from NYPL ’s “Is Reality Overrated?” Where : New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum When : October 28, 2009 Thumbs : Up It’s obvious why Ira Glass and Etgar Keret immediately became friends. ...
  6 weeks ago

• Someone Elses Money

  
  Sweetney — Authority: 118
  If you do nothing else today -- and I mean this -- please listen to this episode of This American Life from the other week on the insurance industry and our current national health insurance debacle. Youll be enlightened and entertained in equal measure, I promise you. Also? Bonus reason to...
  6 weeks ago

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