Madeleine Brand Reporter Madeleine Brand is a reporter for National Public Radio's Morning Edition .
Brand covers breaking news and provides both short and in-depth features.
Her diverse reports include a business story on steel import quotas, a cultural piece on Stanley Kubrick's early films, an examination of the juvenile crime bill on Capitol Hill, a feature on why the military is having trouble recruiting, a feature on a small crabbing community in the Chesapeake, urban sprawl in Phoenix, the marketing of the new Star Wars film, gun owners' reactions to school shootings and gun control measures, and the cultural history of sneakers. In addition, Brand substitutes for NPR business reporter Jack Speer and has guest-hosted Morning Edition , Weekend Edition Saturday , Weekend All Things Considered , and Talk of the Nation . Brand started in public radio during her years at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the news department at KALX while earning a Bachelor's degree in honors English. Eventually, Brand took time away from radio to complete a Master's degree in journalism at Columbia University and to be a freelance print reporter in New York and Moscow. In June of 1997, Brand came to NPR to join the staff of Early Morning Edition , and in 1998, she began reporting for Morning Edition .