In a 2000 commencement speech to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Glass said, "I went through a very early phase that lasted about half a year. Whenever I would get into any kind of trouble in writing about some moment, some scene, how do you get into the story, how do you end the story, there was this NPR reporter who I adored, who I thought was just the most amazing writer. He is a really wonderful writer, named Alex Chadwick.
In a 2000 commencement speech to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Glass said, "I went through an initial period that lasted roughly half a year. Whenever I encountered difficulties while writing about some event or scene, how do you enter the story and conclude it, there was this NPR reporter whom I greatly admired, Alex Chadwick.