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Brooke started out in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining, cable television, and public broadcasting (the latter for Current.) She also wrote and edited theater, film and music reviews for The Washington Weekly.

Her freelance pieces (on topics ranging from orgasmic Russian faith healers to the aesthetics of Pampers) have appeared in the London Observer, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The American Journalism Review and In These Times, among others.

Brooke's world changed in 1987 when NPR's Scott Simon asked her to fill in as senior editor for his still-new program, Weekend Edition Saturday. They finally gave her the job, and a couple years later, she became senior editor of the daily news magazine, All Things Considered.

In 1991, Brooke was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford and a year later she was in Russia, reporting on the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament and other interesting stories for NPR.

In 1995, Brooke was packing for home while NPR was creating its brand new media beat. That became her job, and so it has remained, sort of. After six years on the media beat in NPR's New York Bureau in midtown Manhattan, she was tapped by WNYC several subway stops downtown, to help relaunch On The Media.

She took over as managing editor and co-host and On The Media was reborn in January of 2001. It has since doubled its audience and won quite a few awards by brazenly showing how the journalism sausage is made.

Brooke has won several awards too. She's most proud of the one recently bestowed by the Milwaukee Press Club for lifetime achievement, called the Sacred Cat Award. However, much to her dismay, On The Media's staff stubbornly refuses to perform any of the associated rituals.

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