Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNikki Usher, "News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 55
The future of local news and the connection between local news and democracy are two of the hottest topics in philanthropy, education, and media thes…
4 years, 11 months ago
Xenia Svetlova, "On Heels in the Middle East" (Pardes Publishing, 2020)
On Heels in the Middle East (Pardes Publishing, 2020) is the first book of Ksenia Svetlova, an Israeli journalist of Russian origin who covered the M…
4 years, 11 months ago
Jacob L. Nelson, "Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 65
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry — including profound financial instability and public distrust — is for journalists …
4 years, 11 months ago
Pandemic Perspectives from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Episode 52
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri…
4 years, 11 months ago
Matthew Karp on Writing Engaged History
Episode 6
Matthew Karp is a historian of the U.S. Civil War era and its relationship to the nineteenth-century world. He received his Ph.D. in History from the…
5 years ago
Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (Brookings, 2021)
Episode 1005
In recent years Americans have experienced a range of assaults upon the truth. In The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Instit…
5 years ago
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
Episode 58
Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun …
5 years ago
Andrea Wenzel, "Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 51
At a time when trust in the media is low and "news deserts" are increasing across the United States, engaged journalism offers a framework for connec…
5 years ago
Cara A. Finnegan, "Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Episode 72
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks. In this episode, Dr. Lee M. Pierce (they & she) interviews Dr. Cara A. Finnegan abou…
5 years ago
Julie Golia, "Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 6
Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newsp…
5 years ago