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:

Covering The Apocalypse

Friday, August 24, 2018

"In a time of apocalypse, the facts are actually even more important."

Still from a 2013 production of 'Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play' at Playwrights Horizons.

What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Nuclear Apocalypse

Friday, August 24, 2018

In "Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play," playwright Anne Washburn imagines how our society might cope with a sudden nuclear catastrophe... with the help of The Simpsons.

The Day After, Today

Friday, August 24, 2018

In 1983, a made-for-tv movie called The Day After set the stage for a national conversation about the threat of nuclear war. Is it time for a remake?

What is Twitch?

Friday, August 17, 2018

Now streaming: tragedy, humanity, esports.

Streaming While Homeless

Friday, August 17, 2018

The story of one streamer, who turned to Twitch during his darkest hour.

A Private App for Public Officials

Friday, August 10, 2018

How can public records be preserved when state officials use an app that destroys messages?

Associated Press reporter Michael Graczyk leaves the Huntsville Unit after witnessing the execution of confessed killer Elroy Chester in Huntsville, Texas.

Reporting from the Death Chamber

Friday, August 10, 2018

Michael Graczyk, AP reporter, on the mindset required to cover hundreds of executions in Huntsville, Texas.

CNN journalist Jim Acosta does a stand up before the daily press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.

For the Sake of The People In This Room

Friday, August 03, 2018

The White House and the press spar once more. What's the end game?

Who Do We Think We Are?

Friday, July 27, 2018

We're not only wrong about how we see the other party — but also how we see ourselves.

White House Press Corps Gets In Formation

Friday, July 27, 2018

Finally, some unity.

How Fringe Ideas Become Policy

Friday, July 20, 2018

How shifting the so-called "Overton Window" has helped push "Abolish ICE" into the mainstream.

30 Years Of Talking (And Talking And Talking) About Climate Change

Friday, July 20, 2018

The summer of 1988 featured a heat wave, a drought, wildfires, and the first national discussion about the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin during their joint news conference in Helsinki on Monday, July 16.

At a Fever Pitch, Again

Friday, July 20, 2018

This week's Russia news rose to a fever pitch. It'll come back down again.

A memorial for Eric Garner rests on the pavement near the site of his death, Saturday, July 19, 2014, in the Staten Island borough of New York.

I Can't Breathe

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Eric Garner was killed by an NYPD officer four years ago today. We revisit Brooke's talk with Matt Taibbi about what we should learn from Garner's life and death.