Madeleine Brand

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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]

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 KCRW biography.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ryan Faughnder, Madeleine Brand returns to radio with 'Press Play' debut on KCRW, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Deborah Vankin, Madeleine Brand talks KCET, leaving KPCC and the future, Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Tessa Stuart, How KPCC's Quest for Latino Listeners Doomed The Madeleine Brand Show, LA Weekly, November 1, 2012.
  5. 1 2 Madeleine Brand Joins Alex Chadwick as Host of "Day to Day," NPR Midday Newsmagazine, NPR, February 1, 2006.
  6. ↑ Ferrell, David (April 11, 2014). "Silver Lake's Madeleine Brand adores nature in her city". Orange County Register.
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