20 Facts About Bob Garfield

Robert Garfield was born on c 1955 and is an American journalist and commentator, and the host of Bully Pulpit from Booksmart Studios.

Bob Garfield is former co-host of On the Media from WNYC.

Bob Garfield is the host of The Genius Dialogues from Audible.

From 1986 to 1999, Garfield was a roving correspondent for All Things Considered and was a longtime advertising analyst for ABC News.

Bob Garfield began his career as a reporter for the Reading Times from 1977 to 1981.

Bob Garfield has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization and The Washington Post magazine.

Bob Garfield wrote the "AdReview" column in Advertising Age from 1985 to 2010.

Bob Garfield has written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and many other publications.

Bob Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It", a country song performed on NPR by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the situation comedy Sweet Surrender.

In October 2007, Bob Garfield launched Comcast Must Die as a customer-service platform of last resort for disgruntled Comcast subscribers.

Bob Garfield co-hosted the radio program and podcast On the Media with Brooke Gladstone from 2001 until 2021.

In 2012, Bob Garfield co-founded a podcast about the English language called Lexicon Valley, presented by Slate, with producer Mike Vuolo.

In 2015, Bob Garfield founded the Media Future Summit at Wharton, an annual gathering of high-level executives, owners and academics aimed at addressing the flailing media economy.

Bob Garfield is a senior fellow at the Wharton Future of Advertising Program, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Garfield has been a Professor of Practice at Penn and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty in Media Ecology at Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

In 2021, New York Public Radio fired Bob Garfield, saying he had violated the station's anti-bullying policy.

Station management issued Bob Garfield a warning in 2020 but the behavior persisted, officials said.

Bob Garfield said the behavior amounted to two instances of yelling at meetings, in both cases as a response to "provocation [that] was extraordinary and simply shocking".

Bob Garfield was raised in a Jewish family in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, "a hometown of my youth".

Bob Garfield is married to Milena Trobozic; they have three daughters.