Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

Did Lulz Break Wall Street?

Thursday, January 28, 2021

How bored Redditors turned the stock market — which is absurd — into something very, very absurd. 

Twenty Years of On The Media

Friday, January 22, 2021

Bob and Brooke reflect on two decades worth of shows.

The Shepard Tone Turns Off

Friday, January 22, 2021

After four plus years, a (short-lived) reprieve.

What The Press Have And Should Have Learned From The Trump Era

Friday, January 22, 2021

How do we begin to repair the deep damage done to our information ecosystem?

The Zello Tapes: The Walkie-Talkie App Used During The Insurrection

Friday, January 15, 2021

Listen to recordings from an insurrectionist as she stormed the Capitol.

Imagining Our Social Media Future

Friday, January 15, 2021

Social media's future might look more like a public park than a space ship.

How the School Transmission Conversation Became So Muddled

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Coronavirus spreads in schools. Just like it spreads everywhere else.

What Do We Call This?

Friday, January 08, 2021

On Wednesday, as law enforcement struggled to respond, journalists struggled for words. 

Why Some Hear 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' As A Neo-Confederate Anthem

Friday, January 08, 2021

A pop critic unpacks the complexities of The Band's canonical, misunderstood song. 

WNYC's Time Capsule Call-In Special

Sunday, December 27, 2020

As this historic year comes to a close, it's time to set aside what we want to remember. Today, a Time Capsule call-in special.

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The Year Of The Uprising

Friday, December 25, 2020

Brooke and Bob reflect on essential lessons learned about 2020's protests for racial justice. 

The Year Of The Right

Friday, December 25, 2020

Brooke and Bob reflect on lessons learned from covering the right's anti-majoritarianism drift.

The Year Of The Virus

Friday, December 25, 2020

Brooke and Bob revisit some essential lessons from a year of reporting on the pandemic.

Unlearning White Jesus

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Examining the consequences of 'White Jesus' in America.

Beware Trump-In-Cuffs Bluster

Friday, December 11, 2020

Trump may be criminally charged sooner, or later, than you think. Or not at all. 

The Moral Burden of Pandemic Decision-Making

Friday, December 11, 2020

What early-pandemic shortages can tell us about the problems that await us in vaccine rollout.

How We Mourn

Friday, December 11, 2020

COVID has forced us to change the way we mourn our dead — and given us some new rituals to carry forward.

Is The Pandemic Making Us Numb To One Another's Pain?

Friday, December 11, 2020

Is it our responsibility to experience the intense suffering in the world every day?

How Shakespeare Became an American Hero

Friday, November 27, 2020

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

Why The Press Downplayed the 1918 Flu

Friday, November 27, 2020

Until recently, that deadly pandemic has been mostly absent from our collective memory.