A podcast that rips out the pages of your history books to re-examine the stories you thought you knew and the ones you were never told.
Journalism History
A podcast that rips out the pages of your history books to re-examine the stories you thought you knew.
Episodes
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Episode 139: PR and Crime Novels
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
PR researcher Karen Miller Russell discusses her latest article examining public relations in U.S. mystery novels. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast
Friday Apr 05, 2024
50th Anniversary: Why Does Journalism History Matter?
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the academic journal Journalism History, we're reaching into the vault to highlight five of the podcast's most popular episodes. In this episode, we revisit out most popular show, a reflection with prior guests on the central mission of our show: Why does journalism history matter? Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
50th Anniversary: Hidden Figures in Public Relations History
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the academic journal Journalism History, we're reaching into the vault to highlight five of the podcast's most popular episodes. In this episode, researcher Denise Hill provides an overdue spotlight on African-American public relations practitioners, including Ida B. Wells, Henry Lee Moon, Moss Kendrix and Inez Kaiser. The transcript is Episode 21 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
50th Anniversary: News for the Masses
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the academic journal Journalism History, we're reaching into the vault to highlight five of the podcast's most popular episodes. In this episode, historian Bill Huntzicker, author of the book The Popular Press, 1833–1865, describes the forces that radically altered the journalism industry in New York and across the United States in the mid-1800s. The transcript is Episode 45 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
50th Anniversary: Newspaper Titans: William Randolph Hearst
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the academic journal Journalism History, we're reaching into the vault to highlight five of the podcast's most popular episodes. In this episode, historian Chris Daly discusses the career of William Randolph Hearst and we take a virtual tour of Hearst’s former home, Hearst Castle, in California. The transcript is Episode 66 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
50th Anniversary: The Unknown Stories of Titanic
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the academic journal Journalism History, we're reaching into the vault to highlight five of the podcast's most popular episodes. In this two-guest episode, researcher Tim Ziaukas focuses on the crisis communication history of Titanic while historian Ron Rodgers discusses his research, The Titanic, the Times, Checkbook Journalism, and the Inquiry into the Public's Right to Know. The transcript is Episode 76 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
From the Vault: Mathew Brady and Photographic Copyright
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
In this episode from the vault, scholar Jason Lee Guthrie describes how 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, best known for his vivid battlefield scenes of the Civil War, used copyright to protect his work from infringement and legally link his name with images he believed would have enduring value. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Episode 138: ESPN Turns 45
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Author Travis Vogan discusses the complicated legacy and precarious future of the all-sports cable network that turned the NFL Draft and NCAA men’s basketball tournament into television spectacles. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Feb 19, 2024
From the Vault: The Black Press & the Fight for Racial Justice
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
In a throwback to an episode in our vault, author Fred Carroll describes the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press began to cross over in the 1920s. The transcript is Episode 72 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Episode 137: First Lady of the Black Press
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Historian Jinx Broussard discusses the career of Ethel Payne and the book African American Foreign Correspondents, A History. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast