Brooke Gladstone

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Brooke Gladstone is the editor and co-host of National Public Radio's weekend show, On the Media. A co-winner of two Peabody awards for broadcast excellence, she is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and Slate. Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has served as substitute host on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. Widely quoted as an expert on press trends, she has covered news media for much of her career, starting as a correspondent for Currents magazine in the early 1980s and continuing as media reporter for NPR in the 1990s. Gladstone also covered the death throes of the Soviet Union for NPR while based in Moscow.

As an aspiring journalist in Washington, D.C., just arrived in town with a drama degree from the University of Vermont, Gladstone waited tables and lived in a tiny apartment, keeping her stylish-yet-funky clothes in a cheap cardboard dresser. Today, critics celebrate her On the Media performance for its mix of insight, wit, irony, and occasional hilarious self-mockery.^{[citation needed]} A Long Island native and mother of twin daughters, she resides in Brooklyn with her husband, journalist Fred Kaplan.