Journalism History
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Journalism History
A podcast that rips out the pages of your history books to re-examine the stories you thought you knew.
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100 episode
Episode 147: Journalism History Matters
After six years, the hosts and selected guests reflect on the importance of this podcast and journalism history in this series finale. Show transcript...
From the Vault: The Sunday Paper
In this episode from our vault, author Paul Moore discusses his book, The Sunday Paper, exploring the history of the Sunday newspaper and its rise as...
Episode 146: The Newspaper Axis
Historian Kathryn Olmsted discusses her recent book, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, and explains how anti-interventionist at...
From the Vault: Wars on the Press by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump
In this episode from our vault, author Mark Feldstein discusses the nasty relationship between President Richard Nixon and investigative journalist Ja...
Episode 145: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952
Author Ira Chinoy discusses his latest book, Predicting the Winner, and the beginning of computer forecasting with elections. Show transcripts are ava...
From the Vault: Newspaper Titans: Joseph Pulitzer
In this episode from our vault, historian Chris Daly reviews the sensational career of publisher Joseph Pulitzer before we take a virtual tour of the...
Episode 144: The Letdown of Liberal Talk Radio
Journalist Gregory Svirnovskiy discusses Democrats’ unsuccessful attempts after the 1994 midterm elections to counter conservative hosts like Rush Lim...
From the Vault: Journalists on Film
In this episode from our vault, author Richard Ness reviews Hollywood’s diverse depictions of journalists over the years, from crusading reporters in...
Episode 143: Last Paper Standing
Author Ken Ward discusses his new book, which examines a century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Show transcripts...
From the Vault: They Came to Toil
In this episode from our vault, professor Melita Garza discusses newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants during the Great Depression year...
Episode 142: The Peopleization of TV News
Researcher Maddie Liseblad discusses the early days of television in the U.S. and how the format for local TV news that continues today was developed...
From the Vault: The Flyin’ Jenny Comic Strip
In this episode from our vault, scholars Pamela Walck and Ashley Walter discuss their research on a pioneering comic strip whose portrayal of a female...
Episode 141: Fake News in the American Revolution
Author Jordan Taylor examines a “post-truth” era that long predated misleading social media posts and unscrupulous twenty-first-century politicians, s...
From the Vault: The Commercialization of PBS
In this episode from the vault, historian Camille Reyes charts the history of the Public Broadcasting Service as a platform for new ideas and informat...
Episode 140: How Private Investment Helped Destroy Newspapers
Margot Susca delves into the destructive practices of private equity firms on newspapers, highlighting the urgent need for a thorough understanding of...
Episode 139: PR and Crime Novels
PR researcher Karen Miller Russell discusses her latest article examining public relations in U.S. mystery novels. Show transcripts are available at h...
50th Anniversary: Why Does Journalism History Matter?
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 po...
50th Anniversary: Hidden Figures in Public Relations History
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 po...
50th Anniversary: News for the Masses
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 po...
50th Anniversary: Newspaper Titans: William Randolph Hearst
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 po...
50th Anniversary: The Unknown Stories of Titanic
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 po...
From the Vault: Mathew Brady and Photographic Copyright
In this episode from the vault, scholar Jason Lee Guthrie describes how 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, best known for his vivid battlefield s...
Episode 138: ESPN Turns 45
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 ba...
From the Vault: The Black Press & the Fight for Racial Justice
In a throwback to an episode in our vault, author Fred Carroll describes the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alterna...
Episode 137: First Lady of the Black Press
Historian Jinx Broussard discusses the career of Ethel Payne and the book African American Foreign Correspondents, A History. Show transcripts are ava...
From the Vault: Eisenhower: The Public Relations President
In a throwback to an episode in our vault, author Pam Parry discusses how President Dwight Eisenhower embraced public relations as a necessary compone...
Episode 136: Kent Cooper’s Associated Press
Gene Allen, professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, charts the career of Kent Cooper, who joined the Associated Press in 1910 before cl...
From the Vault: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
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 t...
Episode 135: History of the Christmas Card
Writer John Hanc describes his research on the history of Christmas cards for an article that ran in Smithsonian Magazine. Show transcripts are availa...
From the Vault: The History of Food Journalism
In this throwback from our vault, food journalism expert Kim Voss discusses the significance of food history and the story behind New York Times food...
Episode 134: Myth, Memory, Media Mourning and the Kennedys
Researcher Carolyn Kitch discusses her article, “A Death in the American Family: Myth, Memory and National Values in the Media Mourning of John F. Ken...
From the Vault: Finding Ghosts in Newspapers
In this throwback from our vault, we trace American newspapers’ fascination with ghosts back to the 1800s with historian Paulette D. Kilmer. The trans...
Episode 133: The 1948 Presidential Election
Historian Cayce Myers describes the tactics used by the press in explaining its errant coverage of the 1948 presidential election, drawing parallels a...
From the Vault: Intimidation Through Libel Law
In a throwback to an episode in our vault, historian Aimee Edmondson describes how opponents of the Civil Rights movement weaponized libel law for dec...
Episode 132: Investigative Reporting in the 1830s
Historian Gerry Lanosga describes the investigative reporting techniques used by abolitionists in the early 1800s to counter lies and disinformation s...
Episode 131: The Sage of Emporia
Biographer Beverley Buller discusses William Allen White, known as the Sage of Emporia, and how this Kansas newspaper owner became a national phenomen...
Episode 130: When the News Broke
Author Heather Hendershot discusses her book, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Show transcripts are available at https...
Episode 129: Staged News
Author Jordana Cox discusses her book, Staged News, about a Depression-era collaboration between journalism and theater to produce news for the theatr...
Episode 128: The Birth of High School Journalism
Researcher Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen describes how student newspapers became prominent parts of the American high school experience in the early 1900s....
Episode 127: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War Washington
Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists. In this epis...