Podcast McGarr Podcast: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War Washington 22 May 20237 May 2023 For the 127th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists.…
Broadcast History Series Broadcast Essay: The Intersectionality of Race and Power in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 15 May 202315 Dec 2024 How Fred Rogers and François Clemmons led with Compassion Following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, U.S. cities erupted in violent civil unrest. African Americans’ social oppression reached its…
Podcast Everbach Podcast: Monica Lewinsky and 1998 Newspaper Framing 8 May 20237 May 2023 For the 126th episode of the Journalism History podcast, researcher Tracy Everbach discusses the 25th anniversary since the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair became national news and the problematic coverage that…
Book Reviews Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler 1 May 202315 Apr 2023 2023-5 | Download PDF Olmsted, Kathryn. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 328 pp., $30.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780300256420, Reviewed by…
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