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.