Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand

Host, Press Play with Madeleine Brand, The Legal Eagle Files

Madeleine Brand is the host of  the award-winning daily news and culture show, Press Play. On the show, she covers national, international and local stories through a Southern California lens.  She is also the co-host of KCRW's legal affairs podcast, The Legal Eagle Files.

Madeleine has hosted and reported for NPR and for affiliate stations for more than 30 years. She has a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she also taught documentary radio. Madeleine's undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in English.

Madeleine Brand on KCRW

The federal government is planning to investigate the CA Dept.

Students’ gender identities, soil testing in wildfire areas

The federal government is planning to investigate the CA Dept.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The Trump administration has halted a program financing lawyers for immigrant children.

Big law firms under attack by Trump, giant-clawed dino is found

The Trump administration has halted a program financing lawyers for immigrant children.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The Trump administration’s release of war plans on a group chat that included the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief raises questions about the competence of the president’s top national…

Democrats’ direction, ‘Severance’ finale, art by Charles Gaines and others

The Trump administration’s release of war plans on a group chat that included the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief raises questions about the competence of the president’s top national…

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Khalil is considered a leader in anti-Israel protests on campus. ICE arrested him on Saturday and revoked his green card.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The Santa Ana parking enforcer, LAZ Parking, is facing backlash for issuing too many tickets and overstepping their authority by citing license plate violations.

from KCRW Features

A new bill wants to clarify if nail salon workers are independent contractors.

from KCRW Features

Republicans insist they will not cut Medicaid, the health program for poor and disabled Americans. But the budget they drew up depends on it.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

NPR's Live Special Coverage of Trump’s address will begin at 6 PM PT.

from News Special Programming

Ukraine says tens of thousands of children have been taken and illegally hidden within Russia’s adoption system since the invasion.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Famed Big Bear bald eagles, Jackie and Shadow, welcomed two newborns after years of losses. The chicks must now weather the winter cold and predators to survive.

from KCRW Features

A group of government workers filed a lawsuit in federal court in California today, arguing that Elon Musk’s demands for federal employees to provide a bulleted list of everything they…

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Measles is spreading in a West Texas community with low vaccination rates. What’s the risk in Southern California?

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand