We’ve spun off multiple podcast series, including Serial, S-Town, Nice White Parents, The Improvement Association, and The Trojan Horse Affair. We’ve done live shows onstage, and you can watch some of them, including one where Lin-Manuel Miranda turned one of our stories into a mini-musical. This episode spawned another entire program called Planet Money. One of our most popular episodes explained the 2008 economic collapse as it was starting to unfold. ![]() Nikole Hannah-Jones reported an episode telling the recent history of Michael Brown’s high school in Ferguson, Missouri, and making the case for an educational policy that’s been out of favor for years: school desegregation. We did an episode on Afrofuturism and an episode wandering around Paris with David Sedaris. And the show where every story had been pitched by our own parents, who - wonderful as they are - are not very talented at spotting good radio stories. And the show where we put a band together from musicians’ classified ads. There was the show where we taped for 24 hours in an all-night restaurant. If you’re brand new to our show, you might start with the list of episodes our host Ira Glass put together called “ New to This American Life?” We’ve been on the air since 1995, so you can also browse through our recommended lists or our entire archive of more than 800 episodes. We’re also on the radio in Canada and Australia. We’ve won all sorts of awards, including seven Peabody Awards-plus one for Serial and one for S-Town, made by our co-workers-and the very first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a radio show or podcast. Our show reaches more than 4 million listeners each week, with 2.6 million downloading the weekly podcast and 1.6 million listening across 500+ public radio stations. ![]() In other words, stories! Our favorite sorts of stories have compelling people at the center of them, funny moments, big feelings, surprising plot twists, and interesting ideas. Mostly we do journalism, but an entertaining kind of journalism that’s built around plot.
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