Brady Carlson
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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson,
NPR,
The Daily Beast,
Salon,
WBUR-FM (Boston, MA),
KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA),
WLRN-FM (Miami, FL),
Duluth News Tribune,
WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA),
WOSU-FM (Columbus, OH),
Wisconsin Public Radio
and
Covers:
At WPR: Wisconsin news of all kinds.
On the podcast: stories about unusual, offbeat or interesting discoveries, research, history, culture, etc.
Doesn't Cover:
National news is not typically my beat, unless it's connected to Wisconsin.
@CoolWeirdPod, @PplOfLocalNews, @ColdHolidayBand, @WPR or read my @wwnorton book DEAD PRESIDENTS. This account is inactive.
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Brady Carlson’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Brady Carlson is a longtime public radio host, writer and presidential enthusiast – all of which prompted him to travel to all the gravesites of the US presidents, research the stories behind the sites, and share what he learned in his book Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).
Dead Presidents takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments and memorials, telling the sur…
Brady Carlson’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 8 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
In 8th grade I was somehow editor of the school paper. Mostly this meant staying after school once a month to staple copies of each edition.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. But it was one that beeped at me when I spelled words wrong - and that's how I learned to spell.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email only please. I can get through a ton of info every day as long as it all comes through my inbox.