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About David Schwartz
NBN Episodes hosted by David:
July 1, 2014
A Transplanted Chicago
The city of Iowa City's website promotes its "small-town hospitality" and its focus on "culture." But a closer look at Iowa City, home to 70,000 and t…
March 6, 2014
Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan
Erika G. King learned a lot during research for her book, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan (Ashgate, 2014), but o…
February 17, 2014
Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate
Matthew Cecil brought many questions into his latest historical work, Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bu…
February 8, 2014
The People's News
"When we criticize the news, who are we really criticizing?" This is the final question asked by Professor Joseph Uscinski in his book, The People'…
November 16, 2013
How to Watch Television
What if there was an instruction manual for television? Not just for the casual consumer, but for college students interested in learning about the cu…
October 13, 2013
Informing the News
Is truth in journalism the same as balance? Is fairness really fair to news consumers, or is fairness merely a code word used by journalists looking t…
September 27, 2013
Out of Print
George Brock approached his book about newspapers and journalism in the digital age unwilling to write another gloom-and-doom narrative about the deat…
July 31, 2013
The Secret Lives of Sports Fans
In October 2007, journalist Eric Simons sat in the stands of Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif., to watch his beloved University of California Bears…
July 22, 2013
Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century
Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media's most studied theories and given it a faceli…
June 27, 2013
Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism
Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism: 1885-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 2013), the new book from the University of Ore…
May 29, 2013
The Wired City
Dan Kennedy envisioned a massive book project, a big-picture investigation into current issues facing journalism and media. Instead he found everythin…
April 19, 2013
There You Have It
To say John Bloom liked Howard Cosell would be overstating it. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say Bloom was fascinated by Cosell, the charismati…
April 4, 2013
Digital Disconnect
Robert W. McChesney, the celebrated political economist of communication, takes the Internet, industry and government head-on in his latest book, Digi…
March 9, 2013
Spreadable Media
If it doesn't spread, it's dead This is the unifying idea of Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green's new book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value…
March 3, 2013
Rebuilding the News
Somewhere along the line, C.W. Anderson became fascinated with digital journalism and the culture that surrounds it: engaged publics, social networks,…
February 13, 2013
Race-Baiter
Eric Deggans doesn't just want to see the media transformed. He has his eye on something even more profound. "The goal is to transform the audience," …
January 29, 2013
Media Life
"You live in media. Who you are, what you do, and what all of this means to you does not exist outside of media." So begins Mark Deuze's critical loo…
February 27, 2012
There You Have It
Howard Cosell was fond of saying that American television in the 1970s was dominated by three C's, representing each of the broadcast networks: revere…