Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

(Janice Yi)

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:

How a Manifesto Against 'Objectivity' Transformed One Journalist's Career

Friday, July 23, 2021

Moving on from so-called "objectivity."

What it's Like to Report on Gay Marriage When It's Deeply Personal

Friday, July 23, 2021

Covering gay marriage when your own vows are at stake.

A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh.

When Black Journalists Are Barred From Covering Black Lives Matter Protests

Friday, July 23, 2021

White editors still have significant control of newsroom leadership positions — and "objectivity" itself.

The Most Dangerous Time to be a Journalist

Friday, July 23, 2021

Brooke speaks with Joel Simon about his almost 25 year journey with the Committee to Protect Journalists.

A sign on a wall outside reads 'Washington Post.' Commuters can we be seen in the reflection of the wall.

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.

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.

How Shakespeare Became an American Icon

Friday, July 16, 2021

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

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.