Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand | |
---|---|
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism UC Berkeley |
Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
Notable credit(s) | Press Play, The Madeleine Brand Show (later Brand & Martínez), Day to Day, Morning Edition, All Things Considered |
Madeleine Brand is an American broadcast journalist and radio personality. Brand is the host of the news and culture show Press Play, on KCRW-FM (89.9), one of Los Angeles' two National Public Radio (NPR) affiliates. The show made its debut in January 2014.[1][2] Brand broadcasts from the basement of the cafeteria of Santa Monica College.[2]
Education
A Los Angeles native, Brand grew up in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area.[3]
Brand attended the University of California, Berkeley, beginning her radio career on college radio station KALX; she earned a B.A. in English, with honors, in 1988. She later received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she later returned to teach documentary radio.[1][3][4]
Career
Brand reported and anchored for NPR for thirteen years at various affiliates across the country: KQED, San Francisco; WBUR, Boston; WBGO, Newark, and WBFO, Buffalo.[1][3][4][5] She served as West Coast correspondent and occasional substitute host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered.[1] In 2006, she began co-hosting the radio program Day to Day with Alex Chadwick, which broadcast from NPR West studios in Los Angeles.[5]
In 2010, Brand became host of the new daily Southern California Public Radio program The Madeleine Brand Show on the public radio station KPCC, which aired between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pacific Time.[2] The show broadcast from the Mohn Broadcast Center in Pasadena.[2] The show was popular for its first 23 months, and was the station's most-listened-to in-house program (with the highest Arbitron rankings), and won a number of radio journalism awards.[2][3][4] However, the show came to an "abrupt end" after KPCC paired Brand with longtime ESPN sports reporter A Martínez in an attempt to attract Latino listeners and fulfill the requirements of a $6 million Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant.[2][3] The pairing of the two hosts, under the name Brand & Martínez, debuted August 13, 2012, but lasted just four weeks and was a failure, in part because the two had met only twice before the program began.[3] Brand left the station in September 2012 and was replaced by Alex Cohen (the show was renamed Take Two).[2][3]
Following her time at NPR, Brand was briefly at the Los Angeles public television station KCET as a special contributor to the fifth season of SoCal Connected, hosted by Val Zavala.[1][3][4]
In Summer 2013, Brand occasionally substituted for longtime broadcaster Warren Olney IV on his show To the Point on KPCC's rival KCRW.[2] In September 2013, Brand moved to KCRW and began to develop Press Play, which debuted in January 2014, becoming the first new daily program on KCRW since 2001.[2] Press Play competes against Larry Mantle's AirTalk on KPCC.[2]
Personal life
Brand is married to filmmaker Joe DeMarie, and together they have two children. She lives in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e KCRW biography.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ryan Faughnder, Madeleine Brand returns to radio with 'Press Play' debut on KCRW, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Deborah Vankin, Madeleine Brand talks KCET, leaving KPCC and the future, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Tessa Stuart, How KPCC's Quest for Latino Listeners Doomed The Madeleine Brand Show, LA Weekly, November 1, 2012.
- ^ a b Madeleine Brand Joins Alex Chadwick as Host of "Day to Day," NPR Midday Newsmagazine, NPR, February 1, 2006.
- ^ Ferrell, David (April 11, 2014). "Silver Lake's Madeleine Brand adores nature in her city". Orange County Register.
External links
- KCRW.org: "Press Play with Madeleine Brand" — current LA news + culture broadcast—podcast.
- NPR.org: KCRW's Press Play with Madeleine Brand — NPR podcasts links.
- Twitter.com: Madeleine Brand (@TheMadBrand)
- Facebook.com: KCRW Press Play - Home
- LA Times.com: "Madeleine Brand returns to radio with 'Press Play' debut on KCRW" (January 2014)
- Los Angeles Magazine.com: "Making Radio Waves: The Surprisingly Messy End to KPCC's The Madeleine Brand Show" (November 2013)
- NPR.org: "Madeleine Brand Joins Alex Chadwick as Host of Day to Day, the NPR Midday Newsmagazine." (February 2006)
- Notebook on Cities and Culture.org: An interview with Madeleine Brand
- v
- t
- e
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1925–1981)
- National Educational Radio Network (1961–1970)
- Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967–)
- Association of Public Radio Stations (1973–1977)
- All Songs Considered
- All Things Considered
- Alt.Latino
- Code Switch
- Consider This
- Here and Now
- How I Built This
- Invisibilia
- Morning Edition
- No Compromise
- Planet Money
- Rough Translation
- TED Radio Hour
- The Thistle & Shamrock
- Throughline
- Tiny Desk Concerts
- Up First
- Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
- Weekend Edition
- 1A
- Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
- Car Talk (reruns only since 2012)
- Fresh Air
- From the Top
- Latino USA
- Mountain Stage
- Piano Jazz
- StoryCorps
- World Cafe
personalities
- Noah Adams
- Eleanor Beardsley
- Ailsa Chang
- Scott Detrow
- Leila Fadel
- David Folkenflik
- Tom Gjelten
- Don Gonyea
- Terry Gross
- Jon Hamilton
- Maria Hinojosa
- Linda Holmes
- Steve Inskeep
- Mary Louise Kelly
- Anthony Kuhn
- Bill Kurtis
- Mara Liasson
- Michel Martin
- A Martínez
- Kelly McEvers
- Bob Mondello
- Renée Montagne
- Michele Norris
- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
- Ayesha Rascoe
- Arun Rath
- Guy Raz
- Fiona Ritchie
- Peter Sagal
- Ari Shapiro
- Scott Simon
- Lakshmi Singh
- Alix Spiegel
- Susan Stamberg
- Juana Summers
- Nina Totenberg
- Shankar Vedantam
- Linda Wertheimer
- Jenn White
- Robin Young
personalities
- Margot Adler
- Tom Ashbrook
- Nancy Barnes
- Geoff Bennett
- Melissa Block
- Bob Boilen
- Madeleine Brand
- Dee Dee Bridgewater
- Paul Brown
- Alex Chadwick
- Meghna Chakrabarti
- Farai Chideya
- Neal Conan
- Audie Cornish
- Adam Davidson
- Bob Edwards
- Ira Flatow
- Corey Flintoff
- Lulu Garcia-Navarro
- Bob Garfield
- Anne Garrels
- Rob Gifford
- Brooke Gladstone
- Wade Goodwyn
- David Greene
- Liane Hansen
- John Hockenberry
- Jeremy Hobson
- Joshua Johnson
- Jacki Lyden
- Carl Kasell
- Noel King
- Ted Koppel
- Robert Krulwich
- Ketzel Levine
- Tom and Ray Magliozzi
- Marian McPartland
- Lulu Miller
- Sylvia Poggioli
- Diane Rehm
- Cokie Roberts
- Ken Rudin
- Daniel Schorr
- Andrea Seabrook
- Robert Siegel
- Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
- Alison Stewart
- Ray Suarez
- Sanford J. Ungar
- Juan Williams
- Nancy Wilson
- Craig Windham
productions
- Ask Me Another
- Bryant Park Project
- Day to Day
- The Diane Rehm Show
- Earplay
- Jazz Profiles
- News & Notes
- NPR Playhouse
- Only a Game
- Radio Expeditions
- Talk of the Nation
- Tell Me More
- State of the Re:Union