Anton Gruenewald

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.
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Behind the Scenes at The Daily Show

Monday, March 16, 2020

On the Media was there as the show took flight.
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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?
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“It Gutted Me Like a Fish”

Monday, March 02, 2020

Charles Bowden on the emotional toll of crime reporting.
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“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
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“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
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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
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“Dad, if I went to Dartmouth, do you think I’d be mugged?”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

How the world viewed America in 1995.
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“My radical solution is that we consider women human beings”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Gloria Steinem vs. “The People vs. Larry Flynt”
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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.
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At the fulcrum of history: Katharine Graham on On the Media

Monday, March 11, 2019

WNYC
The legendary Washington Post publisher talks about the stories behind the stories that shook the nation.
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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
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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.
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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
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The Longest Shutdown Before The Longest Shutdown

Friday, January 25, 2019

Escaping the last longest shutdown.
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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.
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Whatever Happened to Ice-T?

Friday, September 21, 2018

"Cop Killer" was not a career killer at all.
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On the Entrance Ramp to the Information Superhighway

Friday, September 21, 2018

Casey Jones, you better watch your speed!
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