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Journalism
Interviews with journalists and scholars of journalism about their new books.
April 7, 2026
Brand New Beat
Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine (U Cal…
March 28, 2026
Willing Warriors
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…
March 25, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual”
The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel “viewed history as consisting of stages punctuated by times of upheaval,” the author John B. Judis wrote in a recent essa…
March 18, 2026
Making the Liberal Media
In Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press (Columbia UP, 2026), A.J. Bauer examines the history of the idea of …
March 14, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Hitler and My Mother-In-Law
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the colo…
March 12, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 9, 2026
When I Stories
As news reporters, we are in the story-telling business, the eye witnesses to history, writing, it's said, ‘the first draft of history'. The fall o…
March 6, 2026
Killers of Roe
In Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights (Legacy Lit, 2026) reporter Amy Littlefield investigates the secret k…
March 2, 2026
Coming Out as Dalit
This episode features Yashica Dutt, journalist and author of Coming Out as Dalit. We began with a discussion of her choice to write a memoir, the sign…
February 28, 2026
How the Cold War Broke the News
Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspec…
February 21, 2026
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay
Using public storytelling as a driving force, Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Mod…
February 12, 2026
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Studying Chinese media has never been a stable intellectual enterprise. As Professor Yuezhi Zhao once observed, it often resembles aiming at a target …
February 8, 2026
Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lone D…
February 6, 2026
The Moving Word
In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed…
January 23, 2026
Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire
How did politicians deal with mass communication in a rapidly changing society? And how did the performance of public politics both help and hinder de…
January 13, 2026
The Price of Truth
In The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany (Cornell, 2023), Richard Fine recounts the intens…
January 2, 2026
Undaunted
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put i…
January 2, 2026
Magazine
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public th…