Podcast Episodes

Mark Deuze, “Media Life” (Polity Press, 2012)

“You live in media. Who you are, what you do, and what all of this means to you does not exist outside of media.”

So begins Mark Deuze‘s critical loo…

13 years, 4 months ago

Chip Bishop, “The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop” (Lyons Press, 2011)

It’s a great advantage of a dual biography that one can draw attention to a significant life that might otherwise be unexamined by linking it to the …

13 years, 4 months ago

James Rodgers, “Reporting Conflict” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

One of the hardest jobs in journalism is making sense of conflict. Seeing through the fog of war and through what each side wants you to report is fa…

13 years, 9 months ago

Jonah Goldberg, “The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas” (Sentinel, 2012)

In his new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (Sentinel HC, 2012), Jonah Goldberg, founding editor of National Revi…

14 years ago

John Bloom, “There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)

Howard Cosell was fond of saying that American television in the 1970s was dominated by three C’s, representing each of the broadcast networks: rever…

14 years, 3 months ago

Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011)

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embrac…

14 years, 4 months ago

Tim Groseclose, “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind” (St. Martin’s Press, 2011)

In his new book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (St. Martin’s Press, 2011), Tim Groseclose, Marvin Hoffenberg Professor…

14 years, 5 months ago

Richard Hamilton, “The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco” (I. B. Taurus, 2011)

Few places can match the Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech for spectacle. As the shadows lengthen and dusk approaches, the square seethes with snake charmer…

14 years, 8 months ago

Howard Spodek, “Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth Century India” (Indiana University Press, 2011)

As Ahmedabad, the chief city of Gujarat state in Western India, puts itself up as a contender for World Heritage status, Howard Spodek’s lovely book,…

14 years, 10 months ago

James Brabazon, “My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir” (Canongate, 2010)

In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was happening in that…

15 years ago