Brooke Gladstone on the Media

Brooke Gladstone is best known for the …pause…that Bob Garfield inserts before mentioning her name in the credits for On the Media. Among her other accomplishments, she was an NPR Moscow-based reporter, its first media reporter, senior editor of NPR’s All Things Considered, and the senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. As the years progress, she grows ever more senior.

She’s the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and many others you tend to collect if you hang out in public radio long enough.

Just before coming to On the Media, she did some pilots for WNYC of a call-in show about human relationships with Dan Savage called A More Perfect Union. That was pretty cool.

She also is the author of The Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton) and Library Journal, and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic.

At WNYC’s 2012 Christmas party, backed by the fabulous Radio Flyers band, she sang “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, ” with her sisters Lisa and Stacey, thus fulfilling all her dreams.

Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

As another disturbing video of police action goes viral, we provide a handbook for filming police encounters and bearing witness.

The federal government has suffered one of the largest data breaches-or hacks-in its history. Cyber policy expert Robert Knake reminds us how to react.

Brooke speaks with journalist Loren Ghiglione, who believes he might have found some answers about the future of journalism in the science fiction of the past.

Most of us are familiar with Facebook or Apple products, but don't really understand the code that animates them. Programmer Paul Ford wants to change that.

This week, the Supreme Court made its first ruling on a case about the nebulous world of violent online speech.

Two newspapers have published databases attempting to count everyone killed by police in 2015. Brooke speaks to the reporters behind the investigations.

Once called the "library provision, " Section 215 of the Patriot Act forced libraries to become headliners in the battle waged to protect American freedoms.