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 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/.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Episode 91: Ratings Powerhouses Univision and Telemundo
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Author Craig Allen describes how Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo became ratings powerhouses by programming a unique mix of news, soccer, telenovelas and variety shows. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Episode 90: How the Other Half Lives
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Historian Keith Greenwood shares the story of muckraker Jacob Riis and his famous photography examining How the Other Half Lives. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Episode 89: Civil War Press Suppression in the American West
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Researcher Mary Lamonica describes the editorial battles waged among American West newspaper editors during the Civil War and the impact that pro-Union support for press suppression had on defining the boundaries of free speech.
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Episode 88: Covering the Kent State Shootings
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Author Bob Giles discusses his book, When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later, and what it was like to be an editor in charge of that coverage in 1970. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Episode 87: Reporting from Ground Zero
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Former television reporter Vince DeMentri recalls reporting live from the wreckage of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. You can also find essays about the history of journalism and 9/11 at our website https://journalism-history.org/. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Episode 86: Woodrow Wilson’s Ministry of Propaganda
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Author John Maxwell Hamilton analyzes the propaganda spread during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Relations. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Episode 85: Making Jesse James a Folk Hero
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Researcher Cathy Jackson explains the outsized role that newspapers played in making a folk hero out of Jesse James. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Episode 84: Life Magazine’s “College Girl”
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Researcher Lindsay Hargrave discusses the history of Life magazine and how college-aged women were portrayed in the 1930s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Episode 83: America's "Tory" Printer
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Historian Autumn Lorimer Linford tells the real story of James Rivington, the most infamous printer of the American Revolution. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/