Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist and media analyst. She is host and managing editor of the National Public Radio newsmagazine, On the Media, and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Observer, and Slate. Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has hosted PBS's Charlie Rose Show. She is widely quoted as an expert on press trends.
Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In Washingt...
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Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist and media analyst. She is host and managing editor of the National Public Radio newsmagazine, On the Media, and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Observer, and Slate. Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has hosted PBS's Charlie Rose Show. She is widely quoted as an expert on press trends.
Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s, she landed a low-paying newsletter job and lived in a tiny apartment, keeping her belongings in a suitcase made entirely of cardboard. By 1982, she had become a correspondent for Currents. Gladstone rose to become a media reporter for NPR in the 1990s. She also covered the death throes of the Soviet Union for NPR while based in Moscow.
On May 24, 2009, Gladstone embarked on a collaboration with cartoonist Josh Neufeld. Their book, to be published by W.W. Norton, is tentatively titled The Influencing Machine....
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