Journalism History

Historian Nick Hirshon describes the media's treatment of the mental health of professional athletes. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

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/ . 

Author Paul Moore discusses his book, The Sunday Paper, exploring the history of the Sunday newspaper and its rise as an American cultural institution between the 1880s and 1920s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/  

Historians Kim Mangun and Lisa Parcell explain how advertisers began speaking directly to Black audiences in the 1950s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.

Independent scholar Paula Hunt describes the transformation Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown brought to the magazine and the commercial success that followed. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Author Kim Todd details the daring exploits of women reporters who pioneered a new genre of investigative journalism in the 1880s and 1890s. Show transcripts are available at  https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ .

Biographer Ray Boomhower follows the career of war correspondent Richard Tregaskis from Guadalcanal to Korea to Vietnam. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Historian Melissa Greene-Blye discusses the importance of representation of Native Americans in the media of the past and present. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Ryan Linkof discusses his research, 'The Photographic Attack on His Royal Highness': The Prince of Wales, Wallis Simpson and the Prehistory of the Paparazzi. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Researcher Joy Jenkins describes how the language used in news media to describe people with disabilities has changed through the case of a 1977 protest in support of civil rights regulations. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Researcher Ulf Jonas Bjork explains the criticism voiced in medical journals against reporters, advertisers and the newspaper industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Show transcripts are available at  https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ .

In observance of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests, researcher Jon Marshall explores the role of the press in covering the scandal and the eventual downfall of the Nixon administration. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Researcher Brian Thornton discusses one of the first and most bizarre newspaper frauds in the United States: the infamous moon hoax of 1835, perpetuated by the New York Sun and reporter Richard Adams Locke. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Author Richard Ness reviews Hollywood’s diverse depictions of journalists over the years, from crusading reporters in All the President’s Men and Spotlight to manipulative media executives in Citizen Kane and Network. Show transcripts are available at  https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ .

Historian Erika Pribanic-Smith uses the hotly contested 1844 presidential election to explain the partisan press era and to draw connections between that era and our own. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

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/

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/ . 

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/ . 

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.

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/

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/

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/

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/ . 

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/

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/ .