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New Books in Journalism

Interview with Scholars of Journalism about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

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Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)

Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)

While the title of Matt Pearl‘s book, The Solo Video Journalist: Doing it All and Doing It Well in TV Multimedia Journal... Read more

4 May 2017

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Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)

Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)

Robert W. McChesney, the celebrated political economist of communication, takes the Internet, industry and government he... Read more

4 Apr 2013

47mins

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Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” (Simon and Schuster, 2014)

Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” (Simon and Schuster, 2014)

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are ... Read more

24 Feb 2016

27mins

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Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)

Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)

The American press is older than the United States itself. Ever since its catalytic role in the American Revolution, jou... Read more

18 Jul 2019

53mins

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Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (University of Nebraska Press, 201... Read more

11 Dec 2019

57mins

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Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)

Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)

Mitchell Stephens‘s new book, The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism (St. Mart... Read more

27 Jun 2017

50mins

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Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)

Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)

Personal health information often seems locked-down: protected by patient privacy laws, encased in electronic record sys... Read more

28 Jun 2018

56mins

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Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)

Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)

“Appalachia was among the first places where the malaise of opioid pills hit the nation in the mid-1990s, ensnaring coal... Read more

21 Aug 2018

32mins

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Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)

Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)

How have memes changed politics? In Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts(Routledge, 2019... Read more

20 Sep 2019

34mins

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Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow ... Read more

28 Feb 2020

49mins

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Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010" (Routledge, 2018)

Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010" (Routledge, 2018)

How has European culture changed since the 1960s? In Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchie... Read more

26 Dec 2018

36mins

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Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" (Oxford UP, 2018)

The story of Emmett Till’s death at the hands of white Mississippians is well known. For many Americans, it highlights t... Read more

5 Feb 2019

48mins

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Brian Michael Goss, “Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century” (Peter Lang, 2013)

Brian Michael Goss, “Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century” (Peter Lang, 2013)

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied ... Read more

22 Jul 2013

44mins

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Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013)

Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013)

It’s been 100 years since the start of the First World War, a conflict that cost millions of lives. In his recently revi... Read more

17 Nov 2014

41mins

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Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)

Everybody knows the author of The Jungle was Upton Sinclair (or, if they’re a little confused, they might say Sinclair L... Read more

1 Feb 2014

57mins

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Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

American society is deeply divided at this moment—not just on values and opinions but on basic perceptions of reality. I... Read more

26 Jun 2019

47mins

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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)

R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. Wha... Read more

9 Dec 2019

40mins

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Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)

Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)

Two professors from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada have published a book about how American popular c... Read more

16 Aug 2017

58mins

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Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019) looks at the legion of children and tee... Read more

4 Sep 2019

29mins

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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. The... Read more

3 Nov 2019

40mins

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