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In the decade of Slobadon Milosevic’s bloody reign over Yugoslavia, the most penetrating voice of democracy in Serbia was a youth radio station. Bob went to Belgrade and spoke with Veran Matic, B92’s founder and chief executive, about how B92 stands apart once again—this time, in its coverage of Serbian elections.
Once regarded as the voice of a stifled people, the nation’s 200-plus black newspapers now suffer from a steadily declining readership, fewer advertising dollars, stiff competition, and even a generational divide. What is the future of the black press? On the Media’s Phillip Martin reports.
Did you know that the jukebox has been around for over 80 years? And that at one point they numbered close to a million around the country? On the Media’s Rex Doane takes a look at jukeboxes.
Women are such a presence in war reporting now that it's hard to remember a time when they were not. The recently-published book War Torn shares the stories of women journalists who covered Vietnam. Brooke talks with three of those journalists about how they covered the war and why they went.
Twenty years ago this week, USAToday was born. The first national, general-interest daily newspaper revolutionized the way news was presented. Readers were drawn to its short stories and colorful graphics. Advertisers were not, and it took the Gannett company more than a decade to turn a profit. But it's profitable now. Host Bob Garfield talks to USAToday editor Karen Jurgensen.
Six days and 29 years before Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympics in Munich. Thanks to a large press corps in town for the games, terrorism had for the first reached time a massive global television audience. Bob looks back with Columbia University political science lecturer Brigitte Nacos.
Legend has it that Philo T. Farnsworth had the idea for television, with its alternating lines of resolution, while plowing the rows of a potato field. Though Farnsworth mastered technology, he was not a master of public relations, and his legacy has been overshadowed by the more publicity-adept David Sarnoff. Reporter Kris Rebillot tells the tale of the forgotten father of television.
Phillip Knightley’s new book The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo runs through 150 years of journalists in war zones. To Knightley, truth is often just as much a casualty as a slain soldier is during wartime. Brooke talks with him about the lives and tales of war correspondents.
