Brooke Gladstone

Brooke Gladstone
Gladstone in 2012
Born	1955 Long Island, New York, USA
Residence	Brooklyn, New York
Education	University of Vermont Stanford University
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit(s)	On the Media All Things Considered Weekend Edition
Spouse(s)	Fred Kaplan
Children	2

Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist and media analyst. She is co-host (with Bob Garfield) 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 appeared on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal and CNN's Reliable Sources (and once filled in for Charlie Rose on 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 covered public broadcasting for the industry newspaper Current and reported for Cablevision and The Washington Weekly.

In 1987, at the age of 32, she joined National Public Radio, first as editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, and then as senior editor of All Things Considered. In 1991, she received a Knight Fellowship to study Russian language and history. A year later, she was reporting from Moscow for NPR, covering such stories as the bloody 1993 power struggle. In 1995, Gladstone returned to the United States and was hired as NPR's first "media reporter," based in New York City.