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About James Kates
James Kates is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has worked as an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other publications.James Kates is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has worked as an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other publications.
NBN Episodes hosted by James:
March 3, 2024
Seeing Opera Anew
What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them de…
January 12, 2024
The Last Supper Club
During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that a craft brewery in M…
December 4, 2023
How the News Feels
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode of…
October 11, 2023
Inside Wikipedia
In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued about 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the hist…
August 30, 2023
Americans in a World at War
On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane—the Yankee Clipper—took off from New York and island-hopped its way across the Atlanti…
June 24, 2023
Get the Damn Story
In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United Stat…
May 19, 2023
City of Newsmen
Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journali…
April 4, 2017
Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism
Charles K. (CK) McClatchy was a towering figure in the making of Sacramento and the inland empire he liked to call Superior California. As editor of t…
November 12, 2016
How Journalists Use Twitter
With messages limited to 140 characters, Twitter once drew skepticism, even scorn, from journalists who saw little role for the social-media platform …
November 6, 2016
Media, Millennials, and Politics
The millennial generation (those born from 1980 through the beginning of the 21st century) now comprises the largest voting bloc in the American elect…
October 14, 2016
Deciding What's True
In a fragmented media world where anyone can speak, professional journalists are no longer the "gatekeepers" who decide what the public will see and h…