Brooke Gladstone, managing editor and co-host of "On the Media," has a long history with public radio. After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of "Weekend Edition with Scott Simon" and became senior editor of "All Things Considered" in 1989. In 1991, she spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow and then reported for NPR from Moscow during Boris Yeltsin's turbulent presidency (1992-95.) After that, Gladstone served for six years as NPR's first media correspondent and then joined "On the Media" when it relaunched in January, 2001.

Gladstone is the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and several others.

She also is the author of The Influencing Machine, a media manifesto in graphic form, listed among the year's top books by The New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal, and among the "10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction" by The Atlantic.

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