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'''Bob Garfield''' (b. ca. 1955) is the co-host of the ''[[On the Media]]'' show on ''[[National Public Radio]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Bob Garfield | url=http://www.onthemedia.org/people/bob-garfield | publisher=[[On the Media]] | accessdate=2012-02-10 }}</ref> Until 2010, he wrote the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in ''[[Advertising Age]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Garfield Says Adieu, AdReview | url=http://adage.com/article/ad-review/garfield-adieu-adreview/143129/ | publisher=Crain Communications | date=2010-04-05 | accessdate=2012-08-07}}</ref> Garfield was a frequent contributor to ''[[All Things Considered]]''and a longtime advertising analyst for ''[[ABC News]]''. He has also appeared on ''[[CBS News]]'', ''[[CNBC]]'', ''[[PBS]]'', and the [[Financial News Network]].
'''Bob Garfield''' (b. ca. 1955) is the co-host of the ''[[On the Media]]'' show on ''[[National Public Radio]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Bob Garfield | url=http://www.onthemedia.org/people/bob-garfield | publisher=[[On the Media]] | accessdate=2012-02-10 }}</ref> Until 2010, he wrote the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in ''[[Advertising Age]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Garfield Says Adieu, AdReview | url=http://adage.com/article/ad-review/garfield-adieu-adreview/143129/ | publisher=Crain Communications | date=2010-04-05 | accessdate=2012-08-07}}</ref> Garfield was a frequent contributor to ''[[All Things Considered]]'' and a longtime advertising analyst for ''[[ABC News]]''. He has also appeared on ''[[CBS News]]'', ''[[CNBC]]'', ''[[PBS]]'', and the [[Financial News Network]].


== Career ==
== Career ==

Revision as of 05:18, 29 November 2012

Bob Garfield (b. ca. 1955) is the co-host of the On the Media show on National Public Radio.[1] Until 2010, he wrote the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age.[2] Garfield was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and a longtime advertising analyst for ABC News. He has also appeared on CBS News, CNBC, PBS, and the Financial News Network.

Career

Garfield began his career as a reporter for the Reading Times from 1977 to 1981.[3] He has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization and the Washington Post Magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Wired[4], and many other publications.

A collection of his work, titled Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner's in 1997. A second book, And Now a Few Words from Me, appeared in 2003. Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It," a country song performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the situation comedy Sweet Surrender. In 2009, he published a book about the collapse of the media landscape called The Chaos Scenario. His first novel, Bedfellows, will be published in October 2012.[5]

In October 2007, Garfield launched the ComcastMustDie.com WWW site to protest Comcast's customer service.[6]

In 2010 Garfield announced that he would stop writing the "AdReview" column after 25 years.[7] Currently, he is a bi-weekly columnist for both the Guardian[8] and MediaPost,[9] writing on the subjects of media and marketing.

Honors and awards

In 1997, Garfield's "Ad Review" won a Jesse H. Neal Award for best column in its classification.[10]

Garfield's work with On the Media has won several awards. In 2003, the show received the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Media Criticism in Best Body of Work, TV and Radio.[11] In 2004, On the Media won a Peabody Award for excellence.[12] Most recently, the show won the 2012 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from the College of Communications at Penn State.[13]

Personal life

Garfield has called Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, "a hometown of my youth".[14]

References

  1. ^ "Bob Garfield". On the Media. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  2. ^ "Garfield Says Adieu, AdReview". Crain Communications. 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  3. ^ Farrell, Joseph N. (1992-11-03). "Perot ads get vote as winner". Reading Times. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  4. ^ "YouTube vs. Boob Tube". Condé Nast Digital. 2006-12. Retrieved 2012-08-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Bedfellows". Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  6. ^ Donohue, Steve (2007-10-08). "Media Columnist Launches ComcastMustDie.com". Multichannel News. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
  7. ^ Bob Garfield, "Garfield Says Adieu, AdReview", Advertising Age, April 5, 2010.
  8. ^ "Bob Garfield". Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2012-08-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Bob Garfield is editor at large for MediaPost". MediaPost Communications. Retrieved 2012-08-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "19 MAGAZINES CAPTURE NEAL AWARDS; ONE BOWS OUT: GRAND NEAL GOES TO 'SALES & MARKETING MANAGEMENT' FOR DIVERSITY PIECE". Crain Communications. 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  11. ^ "Programs Events NPC Award Winners". 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  12. ^ "PEABODY WINNERS BOOK" (Press release). see 2004 winners. Retrieved 2010-09-26. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Bart Richards Award honors 'On the Media'". Penn State Website. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
  14. ^ Bob Garfield, "The Paleozoic Internet", On the Media, June 10, 2011.

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