Madeleine Brand is an American journalist best known for her work on National Public Radio as a co-host of radio news magazine Day to Day

Day to Day

Day to Day was a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio , and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate. Madeleine Brand served as host since 2006...

(since cancelled) and a contributor to Morning Edition

Morning Edition

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. Brand attended Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 where she later returned to teach radio journalism, and is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 with a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 in English

English literature

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Brand is currently hosting a daily program called "The Madeleine Brand Show" for Southern California Public Radio broadcast on KPCC between 9:00AM and 10:00AM Pacific.

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