Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

How Newsrooms Could Better Support Journalists with Trauma

Friday, July 23, 2021

In a profession where trauma is an occupational hazard, trauma has also been used to disqualify journalists from covering certain subjects.

How a Nightclub Fire Brought Down a Government

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

A nightclub fire. Hospital deaths. Government corruption. And the Oscar-nominated film that tells the whole story.

How Shakespeare Became an American Icon

Friday, July 16, 2021

What the Bard can teach us about what it means to be American.

A Shakespearean Comedy in Kabul

Friday, July 16, 2021

Staging Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost in Kabul as a celebration of hope and a form of therapy.

Painting for the Future and Talking to the Dead

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was one of the first abstract painters. So why are we just learning about her now? Plus, how dead spirits helped women find their voices.

Red Wine's "French Paradox"

Friday, July 09, 2021

How 60 Minutes made red wine popular. 

Beyond Ethanol

Friday, July 09, 2021

On developing a synthetic alcohol with all of the benefits but none of the risks. 

America Has a Drinking Problem

Friday, July 09, 2021

America's relationship with solitary drinking started far before COVID.

Alcohol in the Ancient Times

Friday, July 09, 2021

The drinks of yore. 

Zello: A Recruitment & Organizing Tool For The Far Right

Friday, July 02, 2021

How violence surrounding the election began unfolding months earlier.

The Zello Tapes: The Walkie-Talkie App Used On January 6th

Friday, July 02, 2021

Listen to recordings from an insurrectionist as she stormed the Capitol.

Is 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' a Neo-Confederate Anthem?

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

A pop critic unpacks the complexities of The Band's canonical, misunderstood song. 

A New Model for Local Journalism?

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The New Bedford Light revives investigative journalism in a historic whaling town where Gannett gutted the local newspaper.

What The Press Missed About the Pentagon Papers

Friday, June 18, 2021

The late Les Gelb, project leader for the Pentagon Papers, on what representations of the leak leave out of the real story. 

The DOJ Seizes Reporters' Records, Again

Friday, June 18, 2021

Another round of transparency v. "national security."

Was the Biden-Putin Meeting Anything More Than Political Pageantry?

Friday, June 18, 2021

What Russian and American media got right and wrong about Putin and Biden's first meeting.

Nixon's Undoing Came Long Before Watergate

Friday, June 18, 2021

How an act of treason in the '60s haunted Nixon for the rest of his career.

Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding

Friday, June 11, 2021

A new study shows that when the GOP takes power in a state, that state is likely to become less democratic. 

How to Cover the Ongoing Siege On Democracy

Friday, June 11, 2021

Should journalists still be in "emergency" mode?

A Brief History of Being Cancelled

Friday, June 04, 2021

How the "cancel" in "cancel culture" originated in the Black community.