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.

Shows and Blogs:

Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

A Different Way Of Thinking About The Coronavirus

Friday, April 03, 2020

"If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell once wrote, “language can also corrupt thought.” So, what does it mean to be "at war" with Covid-19?

On Monday, March 16, 2020, Amazon said that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online.

Worker Warriors Demand More

Friday, April 03, 2020

History shows us how the heroes of war can be empowered to demand better treatment and protections.

What War Rhetoric Means For A Wartime Economy

Friday, April 03, 2020

The economic policies put into place now could have implications for years to come.

How To Value A Life

Friday, March 27, 2020

The media conversation this week prompted big questions about what each of us is worth.

Science Communications In the Time of Coronavirus

Friday, March 27, 2020

Biologists and epidemiologists are sharing their findings on preprint servers. What those are, and how journalists and news consumers should regard them.