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About Jenna Spinelle
Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State's Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She's also the communications specialist for the university's McCourtney Institute for Democracy, where she hosts and produces the Democracy Works podcast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jenna:
February 14, 2024
From News to Talk
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days. There’s an entire body of res…
June 13, 2022
Not Exactly Lying
Long before the current preoccupation with “fake news,” American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today,…
May 9, 2022
I Never Thought of It That Way
Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see s…
March 23, 2022
Covering Politics in the Age of Trump
As the United States moves on from the Trump era — and perhaps begins to contemplate what a second one might look like — conversations about journalis…
February 24, 2022
Journalism and Jim Crow
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War.…
February 7, 2022
News for US
In the midst of the disruptions and distrust that have plagued traditional media in recent years, and a degree of polarization rarely seen in American…
January 19, 2022
News After Trump
Political scientists have argued that Donald Trump exacerbated long-simmering changes in polarization, populism, and other aspects of politics. In the…
October 15, 2021
The American Newsroom
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Press…
September 10, 2021
All the News That’s Fit to Click
Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsro…
July 16, 2021
First to Fall
In First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2021), Ken Ellingwood takes readers back to the …
July 7, 2021
Home Style Opinion
The connection between local news and political polarization is a hot topic that scholars in political science, journalism, and other fields have expl…
June 23, 2021
News for the Rich, White, and Blue
The future of local news and the connection between local news and democracy are two of the hottest topics in philanthropy, education, and media these…
June 15, 2021
Imagined Audiences
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry — including profound financial instability and public distrust — is for journalists t…
June 4, 2021
Community-Centered Journalism
At a time when trust in the media is low and "news deserts" are increasing across the United States, engaged journalism offers a framework for connect…
March 17, 2020
The View from Somewhere
From the New York Times to NPR, many major news organizations have strict policies about how reporters can conduct themselves in relation to the stori…
March 11, 2020
Upending American Politics
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the …
January 27, 2020
You Are What You Read
The old mantra “if it bleeds it leads” is alive and well in today’s media landscape. In fact, social media and up-to-the-second news have made it easi…
January 6, 2020
Trumpocracy
Around the McCourtney Institute, we like to say that we’re “partisans for democracy.” We can think of few people who better embody that notion today t…
December 30, 2019
Banned
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States and around the world. Enforcing immigration law in the U.S. involves a …
December 23, 2019
Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
What is democracy? Astra Taylor grapples with this question in a documentary of the same name and a forthcoming book. We talk with her this week about…
December 16, 2019
A Crisis of Civility?
There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics. While there are plenty of examples of uncivil behavior, there’s far less agreeme…
December 9, 2019
A Lot of People Are Saying
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pag…
December 2, 2019
Blueprint for Revolution
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally. He was a founding member of the Otpor! movement that ousted Serbia Slobodan Milsovic…
November 25, 2019
Demagoguery and Democracy
When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind? Probably someone like Hitler or another bombastic leader, right? Patricia Roberts-Miller i…