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.
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Episodes
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Scholar Vanessa Murphree reviews the rocky and trailblazing history of one of the first community radio stations to offer online streaming, WWOZ 90.7 FM in New Orleans. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Professor Beth Garfrerick discusses the partnership between community weekly newspapers and national newspaper syndication services in the first half of the 20th century and the resulting influence on thousands of rural newspaper readers. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Author Vince DiGirolamo uncovers the successes and struggles of the children who have hawked and delivered newspapers since the founding of America. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
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. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Author Michael Fuhlhage explores the undercover tactics of Northern reporters working in the South and the role of newspapers as open source intelligence in the lead-up to the Civil War. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Author Amber Roessner discusses her book, "Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign." She argues his underdog presidential victory signaled a transition from party politics focused on issues and platforms to a newer brand of personality politics.
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
Former reporter and editor Mark J. Prendergast remembers reporting on upheavals across Central America in the 1980s, the landfall of Hurricane Hugo in Puerto Rico in 1989, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, as well as his role in the declassification of the Pentagon Papers.
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Professor Julie Lane discusses the passionate following that Joe McCarthy had during his lifetime and the political and journalistic implications at the time as well as those that continue into today.
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
Author W. Joseph Campbell describes the major media events that made 1995 a watershed year, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the trial of O.J. Simpson to the Bosnia peace accords to the President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair.
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
The hosts of the Journalism History podcast come together for a special Christmas episode that tells the story of an 8-year-old girl and the most reprinted editorial in the English language.