Andie Tucher of Columbia University is the winner of the 2023 Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History.
Tucher is the guest of “Episode 121: The Colonial Press,” which was released in February 2023. It was the top-rated episode of that year, drawing over 500 downloads.
Andie Tucher is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and director of the PhD program
“I’ve been so pleased to see that ever since I began working on the history and meaning of fake news I seem to have become much more interesting wherever I go,” Tucher said. “And I’m so grateful to the Journalism History podcast and to the great interviewer Teri Finneman for the opportunity to share my thoughts and insights with this even more interesting community of journalism history scholars. I appreciate how seriously you all have taken fake news and fake journalism, and I thank you for this honor!”
Jon Marshall of Northwestern University is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History.
He is a guest in “Episode 105: Watergate and the Press,” a top-rated episode of the podcast with over 400 downloads. Marshall was also selected for his support of the show in the past year. Journalism History chooses its top guest from the prior calendar year.
Jon Marshall of Northwestern University, winner of Best Podcast Guest Award
“I am deeply grateful to AEJMC’s History Division for this award,” Marshall said. “It is especially meaningful for me because the Journalism History podcast series provides a valuable service to teachers, students, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about media history’s fascinating past, and I often use some of its episodes in my own courses. I was honored to be interviewed by Ken Ward about Watergate and the history of presidents and the press for the podcast.”
Each issue, Clio highlights the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
This summer we highlight U.S. presidents and the media.
Episode 18: Wars on the Press by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump Professor Mark Feldstein discusses the contentious relationships between U.S. presidents and the American press, including the extreme measures Richard Nixon went to in order to silence Jack Anderson, the most famous investigative journalist of the era.
Episode 43: Jimmy Carter and the Media Professor Amber Roessner joins the podcast to talk about her book that covers the astonishing Carter presidential campaign. Roessner focuses on the construction of a political image that beat the odds and signaled a new chapter for American political campaigns.
Episode 75: Nixon’s War on TelevisionPresident Richard Nixon’s press management strategies are the focus of another podcast episode, this one discussing the relationship between the Nixon Administration and ABC News. Dale Cressman details what happened to that relationship in the wake of Vice President Agnew’s attack on television journalists.
BONUS EPISODE: Front Row at the Trump Show Podcast host Teri Finneman speaks with Jonathan Karl about his book Front Row at the Trump Show. Karl is the ABC News Chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” He is also the former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
And one more for the road:
Episode 69: Coverage of Detroit’s 12th Street Riot For those of you interested in learning more about Detroit newspapers and the city’s history before AEJMC in a few weeks, check out the episode discussing newspaper coverage of the July 1967 Detroit riots. Brandon Storlie joins the podcast to explain how and why the reporting was so problematic and how that connects to current issues in media coverage.
Each month, Clio highlights the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
This month we highlight political radicalism and the fight for the First Amendment.
Episode 101: Anna Popkova – The Immigrant Press and the Red Scare Researcher Anna Popkova describes the importance of the immigrant press in the early 1900s to help build and inform communities new to America and how critical they were during times of sweeping discrimination.
Episode 35: Bailey Dick – Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker Host Nick Hirshon spoke with Bailey Dick about the radical journalism of Dorothy Day during her five decades at the helm of The Catholic Worker.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
This month’s focus is on wartime reporting, with episodes discussing conflicts both hot and cold, domestic and international.
Episode 92: Truth And Ideology Among Cold War Correspondents Historian Dina Fainberg explores the experiences of U.S. and Soviet foreign correspondents during the Cold War and the competing notions of truth they pursued in their reporting. She discusses some of the findings of her recent book, Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Front Lines, 1945-1991 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
Episode 74: The Great War Through the Lens Journalism professor Elisabeth Fondren joins the podcast to discuss the little known World War I photographer Percy Brown, who captured significant photojournalism history during his time in captivity in a prison camp after he was accused of being a spy. You can read more about Fondren’s work in her recent Journalism History article, “The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great War through the Lens of Percy Brown, British Correspondent and Photojournalist (1914-1920).”
Episode 60: Ernie Pyle, WWII, and Telling It Like It Is This episode covers the career of one of the most prominent war correspondents, Ernie Pyle. Owen Johnson discusses Pyle’s journey in journalism, from growing up in rural Indiana to his must-read journalism during World War II.
And check out the podcast’s episode on the unknown stories of the Titanic – the unsinkable ship slipped beneath the waters of the North Atlantic 110 years ago this month.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
This month’s focus is on Women’s History Month, with episodes discussing newspaper coverage of women in politics; the stories of trailblazing female reporters; and the media relations activities of first ladies.
Episode 96: Newspaper Coverage of Women in Politics In this episode, Tracy Lucht analyzes how five trailblazing women in politics of different races, ethnicities and regions were written about after the 19th Amendment was ratified. She is the co-author of “Gender, Race, and Place in Newspaper Coverage of Women ‘Firsts’ after the Nineteenth Amendment” in the December 2021 issue of Journalism History.
Episode 77: The Founding Mothers of NPR Journalist Lisa Napoli discusses her book about how four women – Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts – transformed journalism through their pioneering work on National Public Radio.
Episode 67: Media Relations and First LadiesLisa Burns joins the podcast to discuss her book, Media Relations & The Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump, and the successes and failures of first ladies’ media strategies.
Sadie Kneller Miller
Episode 61: A True Newspaper Woman Carolina Velloso discusses the career of sports reporter, photojournalist and national magazine writer Sadie Kneller Miller, a trailblazing journalist at the turn of the 20th century whose story had been lost to history.
Finally, Andrew Stoner recently joined the podcast to discuss advice columnists and their impact on public opinion of homosexuality. He passed away in February. You can listen to the episode discussing his research here.
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Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
In the latest episode, researcher Sheryl Kennedy Haydel explains how the journalists of the student-run Bennett Banner used their paper to rally their peers at Bennett College, a historically Black college for women, from the 1930s through the ’50s.
This month’s focus is on Black history, with episodes that span the 19th and 20th centuries and cover journalism and public relations topics.
Episode 93: Journalism and Jim Crow Historian Kathy Roberts Forde discusses her co-edited book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. The book examines the role that journalism played in creating and maintaining Jim Crow oppression that included support for lynching, segregation, forced labor, voter suppression, and a racist criminal justice system.
Episode 72: The Black Press and the Fight for Racial Justice Historian Fred Carroll talks about the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press began to cross over in the 1920s. He argues the Black press played two important roles: It presented Black life as it’s lived, and, at the same time, protested racial wrongs.
Episode 30: Black Celebrity Journalism Historian Carrie Teresa explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by Black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow era segregation. She covers the topic of Black celebrity journalism in greater detail in her book, Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America.
Episode 21: Hidden Figures in PR History Public relations professor Denise Hill discusses the African-American public relations practitioners long overshadowed by their white counterparts in history books. Hill explores the PR strategies of Ida B. Wells’ anti-lynching campaign, and also highlights the work of several PR pioneers. These include the stories of Henry Lee Moon, director of public relations for the NAACP; Moss Kendrix, a public relations specialist who helped convince companies to stop using advertising stereotypes such as Aunt Jemima; and Inez Kaiser, who started the first African-American female-owned public relations firm in the country.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
In the latest episode, Professor Kathy Roberts Forde discusses her co-edited book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America.
This month, we’re highlighting episodes about television.
Episode 91: Ratings Powerhouses Univision and Telemundo Author Craig Allen describes how Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo became ratings powerhouses by programming a unique mix of news, soccer, telenovelas and variety shows.
Episode 78: The Commercialization of PBS Historian Camille Reyes charts the history of the Public Broadcasting Service as a platform for new ideas and information that has been haunted and hobbled by capitalism and cronyism.
Episode 49: The Made-for-Television Tunnel Escape Historian Mike Conway describes the controversial production of a 1962 NBC documentary that captured the digging of a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall to sneak East Germans to the West.
And a special Christmas episode that first aired in 2019:
Episode 39: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus The hosts of the Journalism History podcast come together for a special Christmas episode that tells the story of an 8-year-old girl and the most reprinted editorial in the English language.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
In the latest episode, How the Other Half Lives, historian Keith Greenwood shares the story of muckraker Jacob Riis and his famous photography examining How the Other Half Lives.
More on muckraking and investigative journalism from the archive:
Episode 81: The Plucky Path of Nellie Bly Author Brooke Kroeger reviews the daring career of Nellie Bly, the newspaper reporter who feigned insanity to investigate abuse at an asylum and traveled the world in a record-breaking 72 days.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
If you want to hear more from this month’s featured book author, check out Episode 59: The History of Food Journalism. Food journalism expert Kimberly Wilmot Voss discusses the significance of food history and the story behind New York Times food writer Jane Nickerson and her food section from 1942-1957.
This month’s recommendations from the archive focus on sports journalism, with episodes that span the 19th and 20th centuries:
Episode 71: Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents Historian Brian Campbell describes the experiences of African American athletes who played baseball and achieved social status in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1930s to 1950s, and he discusses how journalists used their stories of racial equality abroad to critique the color line in the United States.
Episode 61: A True Newspaper Woman Researcher Carolina Velloso explores the career of sports reporter, photojournalist and national magazine writer Sadie Kneller Miller, a trailblazing journalist at the turn of the 20th century whose story had been lost to history.
Episode58: Jackie Robinson After Baseball Historian Ray McCaffrey describes the activism of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson after he retired from the game that he integrated, including his newspaper columns in support of Muhammad Ali’s right to refuse military service and a boycott of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
And for something extra spooky for Halloween:
BONUS: Finding Ghosts in Newspapers For a special Halloween bonus episode, we trace American newspapers’ fascination with ghosts back to the 1800s with historian Paulette D. Kilmer.
