Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Episode 1423
The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and …
2 years, 3 months ago
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 125
Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and onli…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Episode 9
Lee Gutkind is the founder of the literary magazine, Creative Nonfiction. He’s edited or authored over 30 books during his time on the faculty of, fi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Alissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
Episode 145
Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of…
2 years, 3 months ago
Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism” (SUNY Press, 2019)
Episode 49
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days. There’s an entire body of re…
2 years, 3 months ago
Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 157
Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusett…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, "Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 113
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.
The internet brings information to our fingertips …
2 years, 3 months ago
Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau, "Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 73
Undercover investigators have been celebrated as critical conduits of political speech and essential protectors of transparency. They have also been …
2 years, 4 months ago
Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 120
The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. …
2 years, 4 months ago
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 5
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility.
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Press…
2 years, 4 months ago