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Journalism
Interviews with journalists and scholars of journalism about their new books.
May 9, 2024
Newspaper
Newspaper (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Dr. Maggie Messitt is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censo…
May 3, 2024
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
Zvenyika Eckson Mugari's book Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power (Routledge, 2020) focuses on news silence i…
May 2, 2024
Night Train to Odesa
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories. Although life kept gett…
April 26, 2024
Antiracist Journalism
Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories that shed light on protest, activism, institutional …
April 25, 2024
Reviving Rural News
Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journali…
April 1, 2024
Kia Hiwa Rā!
Māori journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand has become a vibrant industry, reporting through print, radio, television and the internet. Kia Hiwa Rā!: Māo…
March 8, 2024
Blissful Blindness
The most heinous Soviet crimes - the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and o…
March 7, 2024
The Infographic
Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and onlin…
March 1, 2024
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Lee Gutkind is the founder of the literary magazine, Creative Nonfiction. He’s edited or authored over 30 books during his time on the faculty of, fir…
February 28, 2024
Going for Broke
Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country (Haymarket, 2023), edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hards…
February 14, 2024
From News to Talk
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days. There’s an entire body of res…
February 13, 2024
Science Communication in a Crisis
Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts…
February 10, 2024
Verified
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds. The internet brings information to our fingertips…
January 31, 2024
Truth and Transparency
Undercover investigators have been celebrated as critical conduits of political speech and essential protectors of transparency. They have also been d…
January 27, 2024
On Disinformation
The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. I…
January 15, 2024
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Pres…
January 13, 2024
Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Sherry Lee, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of the non-profit, independent media organization The R…
January 13, 2024
Opposable Thumbs
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert h…
January 9, 2024
A Revolution in Type
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Ayelet Brinn offers a fascinating glimpse into the …
January 7, 2024
No Longer Newsworthy
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Ameri…