Slate's Dispatches: The Michael Jackson Trial

By Madeleine Brand

Published March 23, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate contributor Seth Stevenson on the latest in the Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria, California. The pop music icon's dramatic criminal trial on child molestation charges continues despite Jackson's apparent illness.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).