Glass brings radio magic to Yale
As Ira Glass ascended to the stage before a packed Law School auditorium, the audience erupted in enthusiastic applause. But as Glass, radio personality and the speaker for the Poynter Fellowship’s annual Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture, settled behind his desk, the entire auditorium plunged into darkness — and then, silence.
“This is radio,” Glass said into his mike as the audience laughed along in the dark. “There’s something about the invisibility of radio, of listening to someone’s voice, that really gets to you.”
Sitting behind a full set of broadcast equipment, Glass,...
