Brooke Gladstone is best known for the…pause…that Bob Garfield inserts before mentioning her name in the credits for On the Media.
She’s 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:
Friday, February 12, 2021
The truth itself was on trial once again last week.
Friday, February 12, 2021
Revisiting the stories of maligned women of the '90s — this time, with empathy.
Friday, February 12, 2021
A deeper look at a pop star's battle for independence and understanding.
Friday, January 29, 2021
To get more vaccines produced, we might need to take a whack at intellectual property rights — at least temporarily.
Friday, January 29, 2021
How Redditors turned the stock market — which is absurd — into something very, very absurd.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Why public health experts need to tell the whole truth — and admit what they don't know.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
How bored Redditors turned the stock market — which is absurd — into something very, very absurd.
Friday, January 22, 2021
After four plus years, a (short-lived) reprieve.
Friday, January 22, 2021
How do we begin to repair the deep damage done to our information ecosystem?
Friday, January 22, 2021
Bob and Brooke reflect on two decades worth of shows.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Listen to recordings from an insurrectionist as she stormed the Capitol.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Social media's future might look more like a public park than a space ship.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Coronavirus spreads in schools. Just like it spreads everywhere else.
Friday, January 08, 2021
A pop critic unpacks the complexities of The Band's canonical, misunderstood song.
Friday, January 08, 2021
On Wednesday, as law enforcement struggled to respond, journalists struggled for words.
Sunday, December 27, 2020
As this historic year comes to a close, it's time to set aside what we want to remember. Today, a Time Capsule call-in special.
Friday, December 25, 2020
Brooke and Bob reflect on lessons learned from covering the right's anti-majoritarianism drift.
Friday, December 25, 2020
Brooke and Bob reflect on essential lessons learned about 2020's protests for racial justice.
Friday, December 25, 2020
Brooke and Bob revisit some essential lessons from a year of reporting on the pandemic.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Examining the consequences of 'White Jesus' in America.