Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

(Janice Yi)

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:

Pedestrians walk past a Shake Shack in New York.

Why Do Journalists Keep Falling for Police Fast Food Hoaxes?

Friday, June 26, 2020

The fake story about poisoned police officers at Shake Shack is part of a troubling pattern.

A cross hangs from the cathedral ceiling while Rayshard Brooks is memorialized on a screen during his public viewing at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday, Jun 22, 2020, in Atlanta.

A Rush To Editorial Judgment, Averted

Friday, June 26, 2020

How staffers at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution stopped themselves from criminalizing a victim of police brutality.

"Abstinence-Only" Coronavirus Guidance Won't Save Us

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Public health experts who research how to manage risk advise a harm-reduction approach instead.

A woman passes a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery adorned with tributes to victims of COVID-19, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in New York.

We're Still In The First Wave

Friday, June 19, 2020

But actually, it looks more like a plateau with 20,000 new Covid-19 cases a day.

How We Remember the Tulsa Massacre

Friday, June 19, 2020

In 1921, the predominantly Black community of Greenwood was the site of one of the largest so-called "race riots" in American history. Why don't we talk about it?