10 Facts About Brooke Gladstone

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Brooke Gladstone was born on 1955 and is an American journalist, author and media analyst.

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Brooke Gladstone is the host and managing editor of the WNYC radio program On the Media.

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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.

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In 1995, Brooke Gladstone returned to the United States and was hired as NPR's first "media reporter," based in New York City.

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Brooke Gladstone wrote The Influencing Machine, a nonfiction graphic novel illustrated by Josh Neufeld and others in 2011.

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

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In 2017, Brooke 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.

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In 2019, Brooke Gladstone joined NPR Detroit to host a one month long series on the house evictions crisis on Detroit today with Stephen Henderson.

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Brooke Gladstone gives lectures as a guest lecturer at universities like Princeton and The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brooke Gladstone is married to Fred Kaplan, a journalist and author.