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On the Media Host Brooke Gladstone Speaks with Station Manager Gavin Dahl

Janice Yi

Brooke Gladstone is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and the co-host and managing editor of public radio show On the Media, which KDNK is adding to the morning schedule next week. Her new book is The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time. She spoke with station manager Gavin Dahl. You can hear On the Media right here on KDNK Mondays, starting July 3rd, from 5 to 6AM.

Gavin became one of the youngest station managers in public radio on February 1, 2017. He is a writer and producer with a passion for community media. Prior to starting at KDNK as news director in 2016, Gavin worked for national radio programs Alternative Radio with David Barsamian and Nonprofit Radio with Tony Martignetti along with local stations KGNU Boulder, KYRS Spokane, KRBX Boise, KAOS Olympia, and Air America Radio affiliate KPTK Seattle. His nonprofit management experience includes Open Media Foundation, where he led a government transparency team, and Common Frequency, where his policy advocacy supported dozens of noncommercial radio startups. Boulder Weekly, Raw Story, Austin American-Statesman, Boise Weekly, and The Sopris Sun have published his reporting. His TV credits include directing teams at Colorado Channel, crewing for Democracy Now!, and hosting on Free Speech TV. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2008 with a BA in media production and community organizing.