Journalism History

After six years, the hosts and selected guests reflect on the importance of this podcast and journalism history in this series finale. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

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 an American cultural institution between the 1880s and 1920s. The transcript is episode 114 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/.

Historian Kathryn Olmsted discusses her recent book, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, and explains how anti-interventionist attitudes by publishers such as Hearst, McCormick, and Lord Beaverbrook hindered the U.S. and British responses to Hitler's rise to power. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

In this episode from our vault, author Mark Feldstein discusses the nasty relationship between President Richard Nixon and investigative journalist Jack Anderson as well as the many criticisms leveled against the news media by President Donald Trump. The transcript is episode 18 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/. 

Author Ira Chinoy discusses his latest book, Predicting the Winner, and the beginning of computer forecasting with elections. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

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 Missouri History Museum in Pulitzer’s adopted hometown of St. Louis. The transcript is episode 65 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ . 

Journalist Gregory Svirnovskiy discusses Democrats’ unsuccessful attempts after the 1994 midterm elections to counter conservative hosts like Rush Limbaugh with the liberal voices of Mario Cuomo, Gary Hart, and Ed Koch. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

In this episode from our vault, 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. The transcript is episode 103 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ .

Author Ken Ward discusses his new book, which examines a century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

In this episode from our vault, professor Melita Garza discusses newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants during the Great Depression years and the issues that remain in current times. Note that some references to current events may have changed since the episode was first released. The transcript is episode 23 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

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 in the 1960s. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

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 aviator helped ease Americans’ fears about changing gender roles in the World War II era. The transcript is Episode 13 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

Author Jordan Taylor examines a “post-truth” era that long predated misleading social media posts and unscrupulous twenty-first-century politicians, stretching back to when colonial newspapers printed false accounts of battles and beheadings. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast

In this episode from the vault, historian Camille Reyes charts the history of the Public Broadcasting Service as a platform for new ideas and information that has been haunted and hobbled by capitalism and cronyism. The transcript is Episode 78 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

Margot Susca delves into the destructive practices of private equity firms on newspapers, highlighting the urgent need for a thorough understanding of this history in safeguarding our democratic society. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/  

PR researcher Karen Miller Russell discusses her latest article examining public relations in U.S. mystery novels. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast 

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 popular episodes. In this episode, we revisit out most popular show, a reflection with prior guests on the central mission of our show: Why does journalism history matter? Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/. 

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 popular episodes. In this episode, researcher Denise Hill provides an overdue spotlight on African-American public relations practitioners, including Ida B. Wells, Henry Lee Moon, Moss Kendrix and Inez Kaiser. The transcript is Episode 21 at https://jo...

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 popular episodes. In this episode, historian Bill Huntzicker, author of the book The Popular Press, 1833–1865, describes the forces that radically altered the journalism industry in New York and across the United States in the mid-1800s. The transcript...

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 popular episodes. In this episode, historian Chris Daly discusses the career of William Randolph Hearst and we take a virtual tour of Hearst’s former home, Hearst Castle, in California. The transcript is Episode 66 at https://journalism-history.org/pod...

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 popular episodes. In this two-guest episode, researcher Tim Ziaukas focuses on the crisis communication history of Titanic while historian Ron Rodgers discusses his research, The Titanic, the Times, Checkbook Journalism, and the Inquiry into the Public...

In this episode from the vault, scholar Jason Lee Guthrie describes how 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, best known for his vivid battlefield scenes of the Civil War, used copyright to protect his work from infringement and legally link his name with images he believed would have enduring value. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

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 basketball tournament into television spectacles. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

In a throwback to an episode in our vault, author Fred Carroll describes the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press began to cross over in the 1920s. The transcript is Episode 72 at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/ .

Historian Jinx Broussard discusses the career of Ethel Payne and the book African American Foreign Correspondents, A History. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast