Brooke Gladstone

Brooke Gladstone (born 1955) is an American journalist, author, and media analyst. She is the host and managing editor of the WNYC radio program On the Media.

Early life and education Gladstone was born on Long Island, New York, one of six siblings. She grew up in Syosset, and attended Syosset High School. Shortly before college, she moved with her family to the Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont, and ended up attending the University of Vermont, majoring in theatre and graduating in 1978.

Career Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In the early 1980s, she covered public broadcasting for the industry newspaper Current and reported for Cablevision and The Washington Weekly in Washington, D.C.

In 1987, Gladstone joined National Public Radio, first as editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, and later became senior editor of All Things Considered. Gladstone describes the book as "a treatise on the relationship between us and the news media," The Influencing Machine was listed seventh among the ten Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction by The Atlantic, and listed among the top books of 2011 by The New Yorker, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly. Academic journals called her book an illustration of the history of media's influence on culture.

In 2015, Gladstone was part of the cast of the historical documentary Best of Enemies, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville.

In 2017, Gladstone wrote The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, a nonfiction book in which she talks about how people's filtered reality in a constantly changing media landscape threatens democracy, published by Workman Publishing Company.

In 2019, Gladstone joined NPR Detroit to host a one-month-long series on the house-evictions crisis on Detroit today with Stephen Henderson. In 2022, she was a Critic in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Gladstone gives lectures as a guest at universities including Princeton and the University of Texas at Austin.

Personal life Gladstone is married to Fred Kaplan, a journalist and author. Together, they have twin daughters. Gladstone is Jewish and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Ketzel Levine is a cousin.

Honors and awards 1991 John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists (Stanford University) Overseas Press Club Award 2003 Milwaukee Press Club Sacred Cat Award 2004 Peabody Award 2012 Honorary Doctorate from The New School 2020 Front Page Award for Radio In-Depth Reporting for the series "Busted: America's Poverty Myths"

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