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 Mar 28, 2022
Episode 101: The Immigrant Press and First Red Scare
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Researcher Anna Popkova describes the importance of the immigrant press in the early 1900s to help build and inform communities new to America and how critical these newspapers were during times of sweeping discrimination. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Episode 100: The Telegraph, Libel and Press Freedom
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Author Patrick File discusses his book, Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era, and reviews three turn-of-the-century libel suits, including one from world-famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Episode 99: A Tour of the Midcentury Newsroom
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Historian Will Mari gives a tour of the American newsroom as it existed in the mid-20th century, introducing the various roles involved in the newsgathering process both inside and out of the newsroom. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Episode 98: Dear Abby, I’m Gay
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Author Andrew Stoner describes how advice columnists, such as Ann Landers, Dear Abby and Dr. Joyce Brothers, affected public opinion on homosexuality. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/. Editor's Note: Stoner passed away after the recording of this podcast. We dedicate this episode to his legacy.
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Episode 97: The Community-Building Bennett Banner
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Researcher Sheryl Kennedy Haydel explains how the journalists of the student-run Bennett Banner used their paper to rally their peers at Bennett College, a historically Black college for women, from the 1930s through the '50s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Episode 96: Newspaper Coverage of Women in Politics
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Researcher Tracy Lucht analyzes how five trailblazing women in politics of different races, ethnicities and regions were written about after the 19th Amendment was ratified. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Episode 95: The First Presidential Press Secretary
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Scholar Meghan Menard McCune reviews the career of Ray Stannard Baker, the chief spokesman for President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Episode 94: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
As a holiday tradition, we re-air our episode where 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. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Episode 93: Journalism and Jim Crow
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Professor Kathy Roberts Forde discusses her co-edited book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Episode 92: Truth and Ideology Among Cold War Correspondents
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
City University of London Senior Lecturer Dina Fainberg explores the experiences of U.S. and Soviet foreign correspondents during the Cold War and the competing notions of truth they pursued in their reporting. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.