Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

Brooke Gladstone is host of On the Media. She is the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and many others you tend to collect if you hang out in public radio long enough.

Just before coming to On the Media, she did some pilots for WNYC of a call-in show about human relationships with Dan Savage called A More Perfect Union. That was pretty cool.

She also is the author of The Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton), a media manifesto in graphic form, listed among the top books of 2011 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal, and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic.

Gladstone always wanted to be a comic hero and she finally did it. Here she is animated.

At WNYC’s 2012 Christmas party, backed by the fabulous Radio Flyers band, she sang “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” with her sisters Lisa and Stacey, thus fulfilling all her dreams.

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Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

America, Are We Ready to Fix the Media?

Thursday, October 31, 2024

WNYC’s election series “America, Are We Ready?” looks at the state of election coverage during this very abnormal campaign season.

How the Media is Covering the 2024 Election

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Brooke Gladstone, and Micah Loewinger, co-hosts of WNYC's On The Media, talk about what’s been different in the media during this presidential election cycle.

Why Don't Sex Scandals Matter Anymore?

Friday, October 11, 2024

Roosevelt, Kennedy, Eisenhower — they all got a pass. But today we peer back at the moment when poking into the private lives of political figures became standard practice.

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OTM Introduces Brooke's New Co-Host

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Micah Loewinger is the brand new co-host of WNYC's On the Media!

Do Sperm Whales Talk to Each Other?

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

How the clicks of sperm whales are reminiscent of human language. 

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The Ensh*ttification of Everything

Friday, June 21, 2024

Why tech companies just seem to get worse, and how to solve the problem.

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A Journalism History Lesson from Calvin Trillin

Friday, March 29, 2024

Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.

Life in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Friday, March 22, 2024

Deportations, re-education, and voting at gunpoint.

Understanding Donald Trump's Rhetoric

Friday, March 22, 2024

The tried and true rhetorical patterns of the former president.

The Real Mission Behind Moms for Liberty

Friday, March 15, 2024

It's not really about books or school boards.

The Long Lineage of Conservative Mother Movements

Friday, March 15, 2024

What we can learn from past iterations of Moms for Liberty.

A journalism history lesson from Calvin Trillin

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.

20 Days In Mariupol: A Look Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary

Friday, March 08, 2024

A conversation with the Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary's creator.

What Does “Decolonization” Mean in the Context of Gaza?

Friday, March 08, 2024

And the value of looking backwards to understand the present.

American Patriots Support... Vladimir Putin?

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Why are nationalists in the U.S. supporting Putin?

Who Cares About Literary Prizes?

Friday, February 23, 2024

It turns out, a lot of us.

How the Alabama IVF Ruling Was Influenced by Christian Nationalism

Friday, February 23, 2024

Apostles, prophecies, and a thirst for power

Cord Jefferson on the Art of Adapting a Novel For the Screen

Friday, February 23, 2024

And his road from journalism to Hollywood.

Bobi Wine is Fighting for Democracy in Uganda

Friday, February 16, 2024

His journey is the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary. 

Jon Stewart's Back at The Daily Show

Friday, February 16, 2024

Stewart pioneered a form of late night political comedy decades ago. Does it still hold up today?