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Journalism
Interviews with journalists and scholars of journalism about their new books.
October 10, 2024
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin, is…
October 10, 2024
Conflicted
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or c…
August 30, 2024
Journalism and the Metaverse
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Internet…
August 29, 2024
God's Ashes
Climate change. The refugee crisis. The rise of social media. These big social questions—and others—inspired journalist Marga Ortigas in the creation…
August 11, 2024
Ink-Stained Hollywood
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat l…
August 8, 2024
How Documentaries Went Mainstream
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of …
July 28, 2024
Talking Back to the West
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player…
July 26, 2024
The Virus Touch
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global…
July 24, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed …
July 18, 2024
A Danger Shared
Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from C…
July 18, 2024
Eliza Scidmore
Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geogra…
July 2, 2024
Trolling Ourselves to Death
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy …
July 2, 2024
Stringers and the Journalistic Field
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic …
June 20, 2024
On the Shadow Tracks
In 2016, journalist Clare Hammond embarked on a project to study the railways of Myanmar–a transportation network that sprawls the country, rarely use…
June 4, 2024
CEO Secrets
Richard interviews BBC Journalist Dougal Shaw about his book CEO Secrets based on the BBC Series CEO secrets in which he interviewed 100s of CEOs. W…
May 22, 2024
Lost Literacies
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip (Ohio State UP, 2024) is the first full-length study of US comic strips from the…
May 18, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. …
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…