Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 145
Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexi…
4 years, 5 months ago
Eric Berkowitz, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Episode 144
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangero…
4 years, 6 months ago
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
Episode 264
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relation…
4 years, 6 months ago
Elizaveta Friesem, "Media Is Us: Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Episode 77
Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 419
In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and ce…
4 years, 7 months ago
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)
Episode 70
Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismi…
4 years, 7 months ago
Will Mari, "The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960" (U Missouri Press, 2021)
Episode 59
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Pres…
4 years, 7 months ago
Denis McQuail, “Perspectives on Mass Communication” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 62
Perspectives on Mass Communication is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Denis McQuail (1935-2017), who was Emeritus …
4 years, 8 months ago
Mark Baker, "Time of Changes" (Albatros Books, 2021)
Episode 124
Mark Baker is an American journalist and travel writer. In the 1980s, he lived in Vienna and reported on the former Eastern bloc for Business Interna…
4 years, 8 months ago
Covering Donald Trump: A Conversation with Allen Salkin
Episode 13
What's it like to cover Donald Trump? In this episode, veteran American journalist Allen Salkin explains.
For over three decades, Salkin has written …
4 years, 8 months ago