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Episodes
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Season 4
Episode 107: Joy Jenkins – Framing Protest and Describing Disability
Episode 106: Ulf Jonas Bjork – Doctors Confront the Turn-of-the-Century Press
Episode 105: Jon Marshall – Watergate and the Press
Episode 104: Brian Thornton – The Moon Hoax
Episode 103: Richard Ness – Journalists on Film
Episode 102: Erika Pribanic-Smith – Defining the Partisan Press Era
Episode 101: Anna Popkova – The Immigrant Press and the Red Scare
Episode 100: Patrick File – The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom
Episode 99: Will Mari – Tour of the Midcentury Newsroom
Episode 98: Andrew Stoner – Dear Abby, I’m Gay
Episode 97: Sheryl Kennedy Haydel – The Community Building Bennett Banner
Episode 96: Tracy Lucht – Newspaper Coverage of Women in Politics
Episode 95: Meghan Menard McCune – The First Presidential Press Secretary
Episode 94: Holiday Podcast – Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Episode 93: Kathy Roberts Forde – Journalism and Jim Crow
Episode 92: Dina Fainberg – Truth and Ideology Among Cold War Correspondents
Episode 91: Craig Allen – Ratings Powerhouses Univision and Telemundo
Episode 90: Keith Greenwood – How the Other Half Lives
Episode 89: Mary Lamonica – Civil War Press Suppression in the American West
Episode 88: Bob Giles – Covering the Kent State Shootings
Episode 87: Vince DeMentri – Reporting from Ground Zero
Episode 86: John Maxwell Hamilton – Woodrow Wilson’s Ministry of Propaganda
Season 3
Episode 85: Cathy Jackson – Making Jesse James a Folk Hero
Episode 84: Lindsay Hargrave – Life Magazine’s “College Girl”
Episode 83: Autumn Linford – America’s “Tory” Printer
Episode 82: Stephen Bates – The Hutchins Commission
Episode 81: Brooke Kroeger – The Plucky Path of Nellie Bly
Episode 80: Randy Krehbiel – The Tulsa Race Massacre
Episode 79: Matt Cecil – Hoover and the Fourth Estate
Episode 78: Camille Reyes – The Commercialization of PBS
Episode 77: Lisa Napoli – The Founding Mothers of NPR
BONUS: Jonathan Karl – Front Row at the Trump Show
Episode 76: Tim Ziaukas & Ron Rodgers – The Untold Stories of the Titanic
Episode 75: Dale Cressman – Nixon’s War on Television
Award-winning student podcasts
- First place: Nick Ashton (LSU) – Drum Publications and the Players They Shape
- Second place: Ryley McKiernan (William Paterson) – Blurred Lines
- Third place: Ellen Chamberlain (Wayne State) – Deporting and Empowering a Communist Journalist
- Honorable mention: Marcela Mack (Duquesne) – Celebrity Journalism and Social Consciousness
- Honorable mention: Sean Mauro (William Paterson) – Prior Restraint and the Pentagon Papers
- Honorable mention: Murry Goldberg (LSU) – Sports Talk Radio in Memphis
Episode 74: Elisabeth Fondren – The Great War through the Lens
Episode 73: Harlen Makemson & Flora Khoo – The Power of Political Cartoons
Episode 72: Fred Carroll – The Black Press and the Fight for Racial Justice
Episode 71: Brian Campbell – Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents
Episode 70: Rob Wells – Enforcement Journalism and the Keating Five Scandal
Episode 69: Brandon Storlie – Coverage of Detroit’s 12th Street Riot
Episode 68: Holiday Episode – Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (re-aired)
Episode 67: Lisa Burns – Media Relations and First Ladies
Episode 66: Newspaper Titans, part II: William Randolph Hearst
Episode 65: Newspaper Titans, part I: Joseph Pulitzer
BONUS: Teri Finneman – The Historic Election of Kamala Harris
Episode 64: Katie Sibley – The Media Savvy First Lady
Episode 63: Sherry Hall – How Newspapering Shaped a President
BONUS: Paulette Kilmer – Finding Ghosts in Newspapers
Episode 62: Will Slauter – Copyrighting the News
Episode 61: Carolina Velloso – A True Newspaperwoman
Episode 60: Owen Johnson – Ernie Pyle, WWII and Telling It Like It Is
Episode 59: Kimberly Wilmot Voss: The History of Food Journalism
Episode 58: Raymond McCaffrey – Jackie Robinson After Baseball
Episode 57: Mike Jaccarino – America’s Last Great Newspaper War
Season 2
Episode 56: Aimee Edmondson – Intimidation Through Libel Law
Episode 55: Meg Heckman – The Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party
Episode 54: Cronkite special: The Most Trusted Man in America
Episode 53: Wendy Melillo – The Problems with Polls
Episode 52: Claire Rounkles – Court Held at Midnight
Episode 51: Shelley Spector – The Father of Public Relations
BONUS: Why Does Journalism History Matter?
Episode 50: Andrew Stoner – A Pioneer in AIDS Coverage
BONUS: Katie Foss – The History of American Epidemics
Episode 49: Mike Conway – The Made-for-Television Tunnel Escape
Episode 48: Vanessa Murphree – The Wonderful Wizard of Community Radio
Episode 47: Beth Garfrerick – The “Silent Partner” of the Country Press
Episode 46: Vince DiGirolamo – A Nation of Newsboys
Episode 45: William Huntzicker – News for the Masses
Episode 44: Michael Fuhlhage – Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets
Episode 43: Amber Roessner – Jimmy Carter and the Media
Episode 42: Mark J. Prendergast – Covering Conflict and Controversy
Episode 41: Julie Lane – Defending Joe McCarthy
Episode 40: W. Joseph Campbell – 1995: The Year the Future Began
Episode 39: Holiday episode – Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Episode 38: Erika Pribanic-Smith – Emma Goldman and the First Amendment
Episode 37: Daniel Haygood – The Anti-Christ of Advertising
Episode 36: Matthew Pressman – The Press at the Precipice
Episode 35: Bailey Dick – Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker
Episode 34: Caryl Cooper – Violence Against the Media
Episode 33: Vicki Brown – The Media and the Mormon Struggle in Missouri
Episode 32: Ken Ward – The “Vilest” Newspaper Titan
Episode 31: Michael Socolow – The History of Televised Presidential Debates
Episode 30: Carrie Teresa – Black Celebrity Journalism
Episode 29: Michelle Rotuno-Johnson – The Stonewall Riots
Season 1
Episode 28: Aaron Atkins – Your Paper Saved Seattle
Episode 27: Jason Lee Guthrie – Mathew Brady and Photographic Copyright
Episode 26: Candi Carter Olson – The Women’s Press and Utah’s Battle over the Vote
Episode 25: Pam Parry – Eisenhower: The Public Relations President
Episode 24: Josh Shepperd – The Grassroots Rise of Public Broadcasting
Episode 23: Melita Garza – They Came to Toil
Episode 22: Scott Peterson – The Bare-Knuckle Boxing Championship of 1860
Episode 21: Denise Hill – Hidden Figures in Public Relations History
Episode 20: Nick Hirshon – We Want Fishsticks
Episode 19: Ava Sirrah – Native Advertising from Franklin to Facebook
Episode 18: Mark Feldstein – Wars on the Press by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump
Episode 17: John Coward – Press Portrayals of Native Americans
Episode 16: Wm. David Sloan – The Man Behind “The Media in America”
Episode 15: Erin Coyle – A “Carnival” Trial and the Free Press
Episode 14: James Farrell – Salem, Murder, and the Press
Episode 13: Walck & Walter – Flyin’ Jenny Comics and Women’s Work
Episode 12: Marilyn Greenwald – A Pioneering Reporter, the Hardy Boys, and Biography Writing
Episode 11: Remembering the Bushes: The Power of Obituaries & Memory
Episodes 6-10: Panelists Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
Episode 10: Brooke Kroeger, “Engaging the Public with Suffrage”
Episode 9: Nancy Unger, “Belle La Follette’s Campaigns for Suffrage”
Episode 8: Amy Easton-Flake, “Literary Works in The Revolution and The Women’s Journal“
Episode 7: Teri Finneman, “The Press and the Anti-Suffrage Movement”
Episode 6: Linda Lumsden, “Historiography of Suffrage Media Research”
Episode 5: Maurine Beasley – First Ladies and the Press
Episode 4: Scholars Discuss Oral History in Research
Episode 3: Sweeney Explores Important Role of Journalists
Episode 2: Professors Discuss Advising Strategies for Theses/Dissertations
Episode 1: Borchard Talks Lincoln and Media
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