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Write On, Mississippi!Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 5: Civil RightsPeriod photographs of pivotal moments, first-person stories from history, and the trail of Black America’s fight for freedom and equality present a vivid look at the movement that transformed America.Panelists:DEBORAH D. DOUGLAS is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and a senior leader with The OpEd Project, leading thought leadership fellowships and programs that include the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Urgent Action Fund in South Africa and Kenya, and the McCormick Foundation-supported Youth Narrating Our World (YNOW). Wh...2021-10-1250 minWrite On, Mississippi!Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 5: Civil RightsPeriod photographs of pivotal moments, first-person stories from history, and the trail of Black America’s fight for freedom and equality present a vivid look at the movement that transformed America.Panelists:DEBORAH D. DOUGLAS is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and a senior leader with The OpEd Project, leading thought leadership fellowships and programs that include the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Urgent Action Fund in South Africa and Kenya, and the McCormick Foundation-supported Youth Narrating Our World (YNOW). Wh...2021-10-1250 min
Chicago Public Square PodcastsDid Mayor Lightfoot make things better for journalists of color?Pulliam Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and former Sun-Times editor and columnist Deborah Douglas joins host Charlie Meyerson and co-host Sheila Solomon to launch the new Chicago Media Talks podcast—a joint production of Chicago Public Square and Rivet360—with a discussion of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to limit her anniversary interviews to journalists of color.Listen here, on your favorite podcast player, via Spotify, YouTube and Pandora, on Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers or on iTunes (say “Hey, Siri! Play Chicago Public Square Podcasts”).■ Enjoying these podcasts? Keep them coming by joining The Legion of Chicago Public Squarians...2021-06-0800 min
Chicago Media TalksDid Mayor Lightfoot make things better for journalists of color?Pulliam Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and former Sun-Times editor and columnist Deborah Douglas joins host Charlie Meyerson and co-host Sheila Solomon to launch the new “Chicago Media Talks” podcast with a discussion of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to limit her anniversary interviews to journalists of color.2021-06-0833 min
Chicago Media TalksDid Mayor Lightfoot make things better for journalists of color?Pulliam Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and former Sun-Times editor and columnist Deborah Douglas joins host Charlie Meyerson and co-host Sheila Solomon to launch the new “Chicago Media Talks” podcast with a discussion of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to limit her anniversary interviews to journalists of color.2021-06-0833 min
Global Conversations with JeannetteTraveling the U.S. Civil Rights Trail with Deborah D. DouglasAs we celebrate and honor Black History Month, there’s a must-read guidebook for every traveler — Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Movement by Deborah D. Douglas. In this conversation, listen as Deborah shares about the historical U.S. Civil Rights Trail and movement. Discover what two or three-day itineraries you can plan for future trips while listening to her playlist on Spotify, U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Also, Deborah talks about everything from her childhood, her role models, and college to her inspiring career as an award...2021-02-2446 min
Northwestern IntersectionsCelebrating and Remembering the History of Black America with Deborah Douglas ’89For 100 years, Medill has trained the world’s best storytellers. Deborah Douglas ’89 is no exception. Deborah Douglas, the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and senior leader with The OpEd Project, is an award-winning journalist and the author of “U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement.” To prepare for her new book, Deborah traveled throughout the South to visit places significant to the Civil Rights Movement. In this episode of Intersections, Deborah shares on the multitude of projects she spearheaded, how a focus on the Bla...2021-02-1129 min
Northwestern IntersectionsCelebrating and Remembering the History of Black America with Deborah Douglas ’89For 100 years, Medill has trained the world’s best storytellers. Deborah Douglas ’89 is no exception. Deborah Douglas, the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University and senior leader with The OpEd Project, is an award-winning journalist and the author of “U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement.” To prepare for her new book, Deborah traveled throughout the South to visit places significant to the Civil Rights Movement. In this episode of Intersections, Deborah shares on the multitude of projects she spearheaded, how a focu...2021-02-1129 min
Modern Media PodcastProfessor Jason MittellIn this episode, JNP talks with Jason Mittell, Professor of Film and Medias Culture at Middlebury College in Vermont. Author of several key manuscripts on television culture, Prof. Mittell is also a key figure in the development of videographic criticism in film and media studies. He and his colleague, Prof. Christian Keathly, have since 2015 offered several two-week intensive workshops on videographic criticism for scholars. Our discussion focused on the history of videographic criticism, its roots in avant garde film and video work, its connection to the digital humanities, as well as current practices and pedagogies.
For more on videographic criticism...2020-12-0841 minModern Media PodcastAlexandra BellCounternarratives: A Conversation with Alexandra Bell
One of the most important questions you can ask about media is how it represents – ideas, things, people. But it’s not just a question of what the mechanisms for representation are. Instead, questions about representation are questions about meaning and about power: how they are produced and maintained. And representations are a site of struggle over meanings and power. The news media are one particularly potent site for engaging with the politics of representation. How are stories told in the news? What cultural frameworks guide the construction of news stories and, in turn, our...2019-08-0100 minModern Media PodcastSiva VaidhyanathanAntisocial Media: A Conversation with Siva Vaidhyanathan
In this installment, JNP sits down with Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan to talk about his latest book, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. The conversation delves into questions of how Facebook positions itself as a social good while its very structure provides a platform – unprecedented in its size and scope - for the manipulation of political discourse and the widespread circulation of misinformation. Prof. Vaidhyanathan is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is th...2019-05-1600 minModern Media PodcastDr. Amanda LotzWe Now Disrupt This Broadcast: A Conversation with Amanda D. Lotz
In this installment of Modern Media, JNP talks to Dr. Amanda D. Lotz about her latest book, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All (MIT Press, 2018). The story of the transformation of television at the turn of the 21st century is a story of emerging technologies, regulations, business models, and aesthetic practices that came to establish the era of internet distributed television that we now inhabit. Connecting these new structures to older ways of understanding television, Dr. Lotz makes a compelling...2019-04-1700 min
Modern Media PodcastDr. Adrienne RussellJournalism as Activism: A Conversation with Adrienne Russell
In this installment, JNP sits down with Dr. Adrienne Russell to talk about the changing worlds of both journalists and activists as they engage the intersection of emerging technologies and pressing social problems. Adrienne Russell is the Mary Laird Wood Professor of Journalism and the Environment at the University of Washington, and the author of two books: Networked: Contemporary History of News in Transition, and Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power.2018-07-2000 min
Modern Media PodcastAnne Helen PetersenIn this installment, JNP sits down with Anne Helen Petersen - senior culture writer for Buzzfeed and the author of the recent book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman – to talk about balancing academic and journalistic writing, managing the role of the public intellectual in the age of social media, and why cultural criticism matters. You can access Anne Helen Petersen’s work for Buzzfeed here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen.
To find out more about her books here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/228194/anne-helen-petersen2018-07-0300 min
Modern Media PodcastFrank Lomonte"Show your work": A Conversation with Frank LoMonte
In this installment, JNP sits down with Frank LoMonte to talk about the importance of student media, the value of journalism education, and the need for transparency and the free flow of information. Frank LoMonte is the Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C.
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Modern Media PodcastJuli Metzger"Nothing drives traffic like news": A Conversation with Juli Metzger
JNP talks with Juli Metzger about the role of media literacy education, journalistic entrepreneurship, and the importance of local media at a time when our media environment has been forever altered by new and emerging technologies that threaten to throw that environment out of balance while at the same time offering new possibilities for more meaningful and impactful journalism.2018-03-2700 min
Modern Media PodcastMichael O'Connell“Everybody Should Be Podcasting”: A Conversation with Michael O’Connell
In this installment, JNP sits down with Michael O’Connell to talk about the role of podcasting in journalism, the changes that digital platforms have brought to the work of journalism, and the value of journalism in the digital media environment. Michael O’Connell is the host of the podcast It’s All Journalism and the author of the book Turn Up The Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (Routledge 2017). O’Connell is also the senior digital editor at Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C.
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Modern Media PodcastFrom Franchise to Hometown: A Conversation with ESPN Founder Bill RasmussenIn the summer of 1978, Bill Rasmussen hatched what is surely one of the most impactful innovations in the history of television: the 24-hour cable network, ESPN. As the founder and former President of the company, Rasmussen helped develop the network’s flagship program, “Sports Center.” Bill Rasmussen joins us in the studio to talk about the thinking that led to the idea for ESPN as well as his latest venture, Hometown Networks, which allows individual communities to create and maintain their own streaming service for local sports.
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Modern Media Podcast“Design is content, design is journalism”: A Conversation with Sara QuinnIn this installment, JNP talks with Sara Quinn about visual journalism and the importance of design for news. Far beyond simply adding graphic elements to news production, design is central to the way that news is consumed, the degree to which people trust information, the increasingly undervalued status of photojournalism, and the fascinating eye-tracking research that goes into understanding how reader interact with news through design. Sarah Quinn is the President of the Society for News Design and the R.M. Seaton Endowed Chair in the Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kansas State University.
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Modern Media PodcastNet Neutrality Part IVPart IV: Warfare
In the final installment of our series on net neutrality, I talked by phone with Prof. Barbara Cherry of the Media School at Indiana University. Our topics of discussion ranged from primary definitions of regulatory structures, how those structures are represented in media accounts, the legal structures undergirding much of this debate, and the economic and ideological stakes of these regulatory policies. Prof. Cherry worked for many years as an attorney representing telecommunications companies, AT&T and Ameritech. She then worked for several years as senior counsel at the FCC in the Office of Strategic Planning and...2017-12-1400 min
Modern Media PodcastNet Neutrality Part IIIPart III: What Do you Mean by ‘Fast Lane’?
In Part III of our series on net neutrality, I talk with Prof. Doug Harms of the Computer Science Department at DePauw University. I sat down with Prof. Harms to find out just how the technical elements of “speeding up” and “slowing down” internet access to specific sites works. Prof. Harms teaches courses computer graphics, networking, and the ethics of computing. His research includes work on historic computing and computer generated holography.2017-12-1400 min
Modern Media PodcastNet Neutrality Part IIPart II: New Marginalized Spaces
In Part II of our series on net neutrality, I sit down with Prof. Leigh-Anne Goins of DePauw University. We discussed how the prospect of rolling back net neutrality regulations could have direct effects on the ability of marginalized people to participate equally in political, educational, economic, and cultural spaces. Prof. Goins teaches courses such “Women and the Internet” and “Media and Marginalized Bodies” for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department.2017-12-1400 min
Modern Media PodcastNet Neutrality Part INet Neutrality Part I: Who Cares About Netflix?
In Part I of our series on net neutrality, I talk with Prof. Andrew Cullison who serves as the Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. We spoke about the relationship between net neutrality and a healthy democratic system of governance. Sure it may seem like all this is really about is large corporations wanting the freedom to dictate your access to your favorite entertainment streaming systems. But as Prof. Cullison points out, there’s far more at stake. Andy has talked about this issue twice before on hi...2017-12-1400 min
Modern Media PodcastIndira LakshmananJNP sits down with Indira Lakshmanan to discuss the problem of "fake news," the difficulty of reporting on politics in the era of President Trump, the erosion of trust in the news media, and how that trust might be re-established. Indira Laskshmanan is a Washington DC-based columnist for the Boston Globe, writing about foreign policy and politics, and the Newmark Chair for Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute. You can read her most recent work at https://www.bostonglobe.com/contributors/ilakshmanan.2017-12-1100 min
Modern Media PodcastCraig SilvermanBuzzFeed's News Editor, Craig Silverman, has been on the trail of fake news for years. In this installment of JNP talks with Silverman, about fake news: what it is, where it comes from, the economic and political impulses for creating and sharing it, and what we can do about it. For more on Craig Silverman's work, click here (https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman)2017-11-1600 min
Modern Media PodcastJill FredericksonJonathan Nichols Pethick interviews Jill Frederickson, DePauw '92, Vice President, SportsCenter & News Editorial Operations, ESPN2017-05-0500 min
Modern Media PodcastRiley Ray Robbins"Antelopes and Jaguars: A Discussion with Riley Ray Robbins"
JNP talks with Riley Ray Robbins, a Development Executive at Back Roads Entertainment, about the varied roles of reality television in contemporary television culture - as it relates to the current wave of high-end production, the politics of representation, the current state of the media industries, and the not-so-surprising spectacle of modern politics.2017-04-2600 min
Modern Media Podcast"Here's Why You Should Care: An Interview With Dana Ferguson of The Argus Leader"In this installment of modern_media JNP talks with Dana Ferguson, the political reporter for The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dana discusses the varied roles of a print journalist in the age of digital distribution, her early attraction to print journalism, and importance of student media in training good storytellers.2017-04-0100 min
Modern Media Podcast"Seeing in All Directions: An Interview with Ben Solomon of The New York Times"In this installment of JNP talks with multimedia journalist Ben Solomon of The New York Times about the emerging world of virtual reality storytelling as a tool for journalists. Solomon discusses the possibilities as well as the limitations of emerging VR technologies for journalists as well as the larger ethical stakes in telling stories about tragedy.2017-01-1700 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - with journalist Rick HorowitzIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Nichols Pethick speaks with journalist Rick Horowitz about his career in opinion writing and commentary across media platforms.2016-04-0700 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - Jim Brown, former Dean of the School of Journalism at IUPUIIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Nichols Pethick sits down with Jams Brown, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of Journalism at IUPUI, to talk about the future of journalism education.2015-05-0700 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - Dr. Seth FriedmanIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Jonathan Nichols-Pethick and Prof. Seth Friedman discuss the function of the Academy Awards.2015-02-1700 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points, Dr. Erin Copple-SmithIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Nichols Pethick talks with Erin Copple-Smith, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Austin College about managing the nuts and bolts of teaching contemporary television and film.2015-02-0900 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - Prof. Sharon Ross and Conner GoodIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Jonathan Nichols-Pethick talks with Prof. Sharon Ross and Conner Good from Columbia College about their work with Watercooler Journal, the interrelationship between production and criticism, and alternative avenues for undergraduate media research.2015-01-1400 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - John CoffinIn this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast, Dr. Nichols Pethick talks with Jonathan Coffin ('06) about how politicians respond publicly through the media about social conflict.2014-12-0900 min
Modern Media PodcastCenter Points - Interview with Dr. Jeff McCallPulliam Center Director Dr. Jonathan Nichols Pethick interviews DePauw Communication Professor Dr. Jeff McCall about the tension that exists between the government and the media in this previous incarnation of the modern_media podcast.2014-10-0100 min