Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCaitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 58
Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Thomas Aiello, "The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 254
In The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity (Duke University Press, 2021), Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinat…
4 years, 8 months ago
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 142
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Amer…
4 years, 9 months ago
Local Long-Form Journalism: An Interview with David Schmalz
Episode 12
David Schmalz is a staff writer at the Monterey County Weekly, where his longform pieces have won numerous awards from the California News Publishers…
4 years, 9 months ago
Christopher M. Elias, "Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1059
If information is power, then so too is gossip. In Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (U Chicago Pr…
4 years, 9 months ago
Covering New York Politics: A Conversation with David Freedlander
Episode 11
David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has ap…
4 years, 9 months ago
Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 205
Over the course of a long and successful legal career, Morris Ernst established himself as one of Americas foremost civil libertarians. Yet his advoc…
4 years, 9 months ago
Megan Goodwin, "Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 156
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that…
4 years, 9 months ago
John Lovett, "The Politics of Herding Cats: When Congressional Leaders Fail" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Episode 540
In considering how legislation moves forward in the American political system, we often think about elected representatives sitting in committee hear…
4 years, 10 months ago
Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
Episode 76
Throughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and produc…
4 years, 10 months ago