Glass won an Overseas Press Club award in 1976 for his radio reporting of the deaths of Palestinians at the Beirut refugee camp at Tel el Zaatar; and he has shared the British Commonwealth and Peabody Awards for documentary films. In 2011, he initiated his publishing imprint, Charles Glass Books, under the aegis of Quartet Books in London. His first publications were Stephane Hessel's "Time for Outrage!", D.D. Guttenplan's "American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone", John Bird's "The John Borrell's "The White Lake", and Jeremy Clarke's "Low Life: The Spectator Columns".