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:
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Micah Loewinger is the brand new co-host of WNYC's On the Media!
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
How the clicks of sperm whales are reminiscent of human language.
Friday, June 21, 2024
Why tech companies just seem to get worse, and how to solve the problem.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Deportations, re-education, and voting at gunpoint.
Friday, March 22, 2024
The tried and true rhetorical patterns of the former president.
Friday, March 15, 2024
It's not really about books or school boards.
Friday, March 15, 2024
What we can learn from past iterations of Moms for Liberty.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Trillin joined The New Yorker in 1963.
Friday, March 08, 2024
A conversation with the Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary's creator.
Friday, March 08, 2024
And the value of looking backwards to understand the present.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Why are nationalists in the U.S. supporting Putin?
Friday, February 23, 2024
It turns out, a lot of us.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Apostles, prophecies, and a thirst for power
Friday, February 23, 2024
And his road from journalism to Hollywood.
Friday, February 16, 2024
His journey is the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Stewart pioneered a form of late night political comedy decades ago. Does it still hold up today?