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 Aug 21, 2023
Episode 131: The Sage of Emporia
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Biographer Beverley Buller discusses William Allen White, known as the Sage of Emporia, and how this Kansas newspaper owner became a national phenomenon whose home remains a tourist attraction today. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Episode 130: When the News Broke
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Author Heather Hendershot discusses her book, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Episode 129: Staged News
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Author Jordana Cox discusses her book, Staged News, about a Depression-era collaboration between journalism and theater to produce news for the theatrical stage. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Episode 128: The Birth of High School Journalism
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Researcher Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen describes how student newspapers became prominent parts of the American high school experience in the early 1900s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday May 22, 2023
Episode 127: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War Washington
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists. In this episode, she details the sense of responsibility driving Washington reporters in the '40s and '50s and explains their resulting complicity in passing lies and misinformation to the public. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday May 08, 2023
Episode 126: Monica Lewinsky and 1998 Newspaper Framing
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Researcher Tracy Everbach discusses the 25th anniversary since the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair became national news and the problematic coverage that Lewinsky endured in 1998. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Episode 125: Advertising and the Great Depression
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
University of Kansas student Chloe Martens discusses her research examining how advertisers framed their products during the Dust Bowl/Great Depression years. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Episode 124: Look: The Forgotten Magazine
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Former New York Times reporter, book author, and historian Andrew L. Yarrow shares the overlooked history of Look magazine, a photojournalistic rival to better-known Life that featured pioneering coverage of topics like civil rights and gender and that both reflected and helped build the American post-war consensus. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Episode 123: The History of Deaf Printers
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Curator Jannelle Legg discusses a new online exhibit examining the role of Deaf printers in journalism history. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Episode 122: FDR and The Media
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
For the 90th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt becoming president, author Harold Holzer discusses FDR's relationship with the press and public relations, as well as his mastery of mass communication. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.