Early career Gagliano contributed arts features and criticism to In Pittsburgh newsweekly (now Pittsburgh City Paper). He briefly served as the paper's music editor. His arts profiles, reviews and previews also appeared regularly in the daily
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1995, Gagliano freelanced for
LA Weekly before turning to public radio and filing features for
Marketplace,
All Things Considered,
Weekend America, and the
Savvy Traveler. Gagliano was a full-time reporter for
Marketplace from 2006 to 2010. In addition to domestic and foreign business & economy reporting, he wrote and produced the show's “Marketplace Players” satirical sketches.
Dinner Party Download In 2008, Gagliano co-created the podcast “The Dinner Party Download” with
Brendan Francis Newnam. The two also co-hosted and co-produced, with Gagliano as primary editor. Begun as an independent bi-weekly, 15-minute show, it was eventually produced and distributed by
American Public Media, and expanded to an hour-long weekly radio show in 2011. It ran for 400 episodes and aired on 183 public radio stations. The show was nominated for multiple podcasting honors, including “Best Arts And Culture Show” at the
2018 Webby Awards. It was named “Best Food and Drink Podcast” by the Academy of Podcasters at the 2016
Podcast Movement conference and was a finalist the following year. Gagliano's interviews garnered two
National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards and a Southern California Journalism Award from the
Los Angeles Press Club. A companion book written by Gagliano and Newnam, “Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party” was published by
Little Brown Inc. in December 2017. The show aired its final all-new episode the same week.
Post Dinner Party Download In 2019 and 2020, Gagliano was a recurring guest host for Southern California
NPR affiliate
KCRW's daily news and culture shows "Press Play" and "Greater L.A.". He earned another Southern California Journalism Award for his "Press Play" profile of Tommy Peltier, an early collaborator of musician
Judee Sill. Gagliano co-hosted two shows for the podcasting network
Wondery: "Safe for Work" and "One Plus One." Both ended production in 2020. Later that year he served as Senior Story Editor for the
Crooked Media podcast "Missing America", and as co-writer and co-producer of Wondery's "Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound", hosted by
Taraji P. Henson. Both were nominated for Webby awards, with "Missing America" winning a "People's Voice" award for "Best Individual Episode - Documentary".
MUBI Podcast In 2021,
MUBI announced Gagliano would host, write and executive produce its first flagship podcast — a documentary-style show exploring movies and cinema culture. It completed its first season in July 2021. In March 2022, MUBI announced Gagliano had been named Head of Audio for the company, and would continue to host the MUBI Podcast. The eighth and latest season began airing in July of 2025. Since its launch, the show has been nominated for three Webby Awards (including "Best Arts/Culture Podcast"), three
Ambie awards (including twice for "Best Entertainment Podcast"), and two British Podcast Awards ("Best New Show" and "Best Arts & Culture Show").
Television Gagliano was a writer's assistant on the sixth season of the TV sitcom
Mad About You.
Print Gagliano contributes music, food, and travel features to the
New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal. == References ==