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Back to SearchJohannes C. P. Schmid, "Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 168
In Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Johannes Schmid’s new book considers documentary comics in relationship to fr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Episode 1363
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the crea…
2 years, 8 months ago
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
Episode 66
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters pro…
2 years, 8 months ago
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Episode 61
Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “…
2 years, 8 months ago
Andrew J. Hoffman, "The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 103
Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Other Side of the Desk: A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello
Episode 175
How can writing for the general public help scholars to democratize education? Today, The Conversation editor Emily Costello takes us behind the scen…
2 years, 8 months ago
A Better Way to Buy Books
Episode 109
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alrea…
2 years, 8 months ago
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
Episode 195
How did the first newspaper in Macau come into being? What was the first foreign language newspaper on Chinese soil about? How was the dynamic betwee…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Episode 65
In this 2014 episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Betty Medsger. Medsger was a Washington Post reporter in March 1971, and received a cac…
2 years, 9 months ago
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 63
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put …
2 years, 9 months ago