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 Ladies Lisa 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.

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.

Additionally, make sure to check out the Journalism History Podcast’s excellent series from its first season that celebrated the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage with five episodes. These cover the historiography of suffrage media research; the press and the anti-suffrage movement; literary works in suffrage periodicals; Belle La Follette’s suffrage campaigns; and an episode exploring the creation of the website suffrageandthemedia.org.     

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.