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:
Friday, May 26, 2023
Micah Loewinger recorded Oath Keepers storming the Capitol. Then he received a subpoena.
Friday, May 26, 2023
When reporting becomes federal evidence; a history of journalists being called to testify; escaping the far right and an abusive marriage.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The former Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed News on the end of an era of digital news, and what's next.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Why the myth of a reality TV boom keeps circulating.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Longterm, speculative fears of AI's ability to outsmart us are obscuring current issues.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Solutions to Big Digital gone bad
Friday, May 19, 2023
Regulating AI; Old Hollywood Myths; Fixing the Internet
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Why the myth of a reality TV boom keeps circulating.
Friday, May 12, 2023
When "representation" and "free speech" become reasons to platform lies.
Friday, May 12, 2023
We know that internet platforms have gotten worse. But how exactly did our systems allow it?
Friday, May 12, 2023
It's not about what happens to the men.
Friday, May 05, 2023
When did the internet start getting worse?
Friday, May 05, 2023
How Iraqi journalists have fought to tell their own stories over the last twenty years.
Friday, May 05, 2023
This isn't just a case about the First Amendment.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The state of Fox News today is thanks to Rupert Murdoch. A look inside the Murdoch media empire shows how media outlets can turn into right-wing political influence machines.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The embattled family behind a media empire that inspired Succession.
Friday, April 21, 2023
How the Murdoch media empire influenced broader culture.
Friday, April 21, 2023
What we learned from the case that almost went to trial.
Friday, April 21, 2023
What his friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow reveals.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Why NPR has decided to pause its use of its Twitter accounts after the disagreement over how it was labeled.