Tony Gruenewald’s résumé includes radio journalism, copywriting, public relations, and producing accessible audiobooks for blind and dyslexic students. He is also a spoken word artist and widely published poet whose work can be found in his book The Secret History of New Jersey and in various anthologies.
Although he was born in the Village, Tony has lived most of his life in New Jersey, where he finds lots of hiking trails, boardwalks, minor league baseball, traffic jams, and delayed trains. He holds a BA in Journalism and an MA in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.
Anton Gruenewald appears in the following:
Tucker Carlson’s Dad Defended NPR and Then Helped Save WNYC
Thursday, June 18, 2020
When the apple falls far from the tree.
Behind the Scenes at The Daily Show
Monday, March 16, 2020
On the Media was there as the show took flight.
Did ‘Seinfeld’ Put the Polish Back on The Big Apple?
Monday, March 09, 2020
Forget Giuliani: Did Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer make New York safe for America again?
“It Gutted Me Like a Fish”
Monday, March 02, 2020
Charles Bowden on the emotional toll of crime reporting.
“They all will follow...I’m Moses”
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Rebels without a pause, Chuck D. and Public Enemy take the “side road” to push the music industry into the Internet age
“The Radio Equivalent of Muhammad Ali”
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Remembering the 'Chief Rocker' Frankie Crocker and the importance of pioneering African American disk jockeys to their communities
Not your garden variety police brutality: On the Media on the Abner Louima case
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
“You like seeing instant justice delivered . . . until you get Abner Louima” - Jim Dwyer
“Dad, if I went to Dartmouth, do you think I’d be mugged?”
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
How the world viewed America in 1995.
“My radical solution is that we consider women human beings”
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Gloria Steinem vs. “The People vs. Larry Flynt”
The Birth of a Cable News Nation: On the Media on the debut of Fox News
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
When Giuliani helped Fox News get into your home.
At the fulcrum of history: Katharine Graham on On the Media
Monday, March 11, 2019
The legendary Washington Post publisher talks about the stories behind the stories that shook the nation.
Like a fish trying to imagine what reality would be like without water
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Oh, how quaint: On the Media analyzes America’s television addiction
Bernie Sanders On the Media and Everything Else
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
"Who is the leader of the American working class today? Nobody knows", says Sanders.
Portrait of Paul Manafort as a “convention fixer”
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
“I much prefer a man who tells me straight to my eyes that he’s going to manipulate me” --Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
The Longest Shutdown Before The Longest Shutdown
Friday, January 25, 2019
Escaping the last longest shutdown.
On the Media’s Big Bang
Friday, September 21, 2018
Angry callers. Press vs. president. Even a different name! Welcome to On the Media's prehistory.
Whatever Happened to Ice-T?
Friday, September 21, 2018
"Cop Killer" was not a career killer at all.
On the Entrance Ramp to the Information Superhighway
Friday, September 21, 2018
Casey Jones, you better watch your speed!
“Something blew up under the World Trade Center...”
Friday, September 21, 2018
A city under siege—in 1993.
