Inside Media: Recent Episodes
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Inside Media gives Newseum visitors the story behind the story through interviews with journalists and newsmakers. The program format offers the audience an opportunity to ask questions or make comments.
Judy Polumbaum, daughter of photojournalist Ted Polumbaum, talks about her new book, “Juxtapositions: Images From the Newseum Ted Polumbaum Photo Collection,” the first major volume of selections from the 200,000-image Polumbaum collection, the largest individual photo collection held by the Newseum.
Doug Bradley and Craig Werner talk about their new book “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” which explores how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of coping with the complexities of the war. Through personal stories from Vietnam veterans, the book demonstrates how music was important for veterans of all races, gender and military rank.
On the eve of the Republican national convention in Cleveland, Aaron Blake of The Washington Post provides an insider’s look at the 2016 elections, with previews of both the GOP and Democratic conventions.
On the opening week of the Newseum’s newest exhibit “1776 – Breaking News: Independence,” CNN contributor S.E. Cupp discusses the role of Colonial journalists in spreading the news about the Declaration of Independence.
Adriane Ohanesian, winner of the 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, and Paula Bronstein, who received honorable mention, discuss their award-winning work in Africa and parts of Asia.
Ohanesian and Bronstein are joined by Heidi Levine, who won the award in 2015, and moderator Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation.
On the 50th anniversary of the “March Against Fear,” Judy Meredith, wife of civil rights leader James Meredith, talks about the attempted assassination of her husband during the march. The panel discussion also features Sidna Brower Mitchell, who was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Daily Mississippian in 1962, and Henry Gallagher, the officer in charge of Meredith’s security detail in 1962 and author of “James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier’s Story.” William Doyle, who co-authored James Meredith’s memoir “A Mission From God,” moderates.
“60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl talks about her new book, “Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting,” which explores how becoming a grandmother transforms a woman’s life.
Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill talks about his new memoir, “Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford,” which chronicles an eventful career that witnessed history up close.
Author Patricia Beard talks about her new book “Newsmaker: Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age.” Beard is joined by Pamela Howard, Roy’s granddaughter, wrote the prologue to the book. She discusses her grandfather’s legacy.
Following the unveiling of the Newseum’s updated press freedom map, reflecting changes in the state of world press freedom in 2015, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest moderated a program examining press freedom throughout the world. Panelists included ProPublica president Richard Tofel, award-winning independent journalist Anna Therese Day, Freedom House vice president for analysis Vanessa Tucker and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reporter Will Fitzgibbon.
Diane Rehm, host of the NPR national radio program “The Diane Rehm Show,” talks about her new memoir “On My Own,” which chronicles her life after the death of her husband, John, from the effects of Parkinson’s disease.
Author Geoffrey Cowan talks about his new book “Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary.” The book chronicles the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign to challenge his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican Party nomination. To overcome the power of the incumbent, Roosevelt seized on the idea of presidential primaries, telling bosses everywhere to “Let the people rule.”
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit “CNN Politics Campaign 2016:Like, Share, Elect,” CNN’s Brian Stelter moderates a discussionon how digital and social media have transformed politicalcampaigns.
Kelly McEvers, co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” talks about hosting the award-winning afternoon newsmagazine and her past work covering hot spots around the globe. She will also talk about her new podcast “Embedded” which takes stories from the news and takes you to where they are happening.
Margie Omero and Kristen Soltis Anderson, co-hosts of “The Pollsters” podcast, discuss campaign 2016 and the rise of political podcasts.
Politico correspondents Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman provide an insider’s view of the 2016 election year and the presidential and congressional campaigns.
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday previews the 88th annual Academy Awards and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the year.
Jason Samenow, Angela Fritz and Kevin Ambrose, members of the Washington Post’s popular blog “The Capital Weather Gang,” will talk about the science of forecasting, current climate trends and why so many of us are obsessed with the weather.
CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes discusses the presidential campaign and previews the critical Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary.
Cordes also talks about the results of the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses and the major primaries and debates in the coming months.
David Kaczynski, brother of Ted Kaczynski, whom the FBI branded the “Unabomber,” talks about his new memoir “Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family.”
Roy Harris Jr. and Doug Pardue will talk about the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor that each year recognizes the best in reporting, commentary, criticism and photography.
Pulitzer Prizing-winning editorial cartoonists Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post and Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News will talk about the role of political cartoonists and will reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015.
Caren Bohan, editor in charge of U.S. Politics for Reuters, and Kathleen Newland, senior fellow and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S. response amid national security concerns.
Author Theasa Tuohy talks about her new book, “The Five O’Clock Follies,” a fact-based novel about a female journalist covering the Vietnam War. The book is the story of a feisty, pioneering correspondent who dares to invade the male enclave of front-line journalism. Tuohy describes pivotal moments of the war, including the Tet Offensive, the siege of Khe Sanh, soldiers on the line and the injuries they sustained.
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newly updated exhibit, “Inside Today’s FBI: Fighting Crime in the Age of Terror,” former FBI deputy director Timothy P. Murphy and journalist Garrett Graff talk about how the agency is taking on a new generation of international terrorists.
ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson and “Frontline” contributing producer Tony Nguyen talk about their new report investigating the reign of terror that led to the assassination of five Vietnamese American journalists during the 1980s.
Sports communications strategist Frederic Frommer and former Washington Senators public address announcer Phil Hochberg talk about the history of baseball in Washington, D.C.
Best-selling author Wil Haygood talks about his new book, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.” The book profiles the first African American Supreme Court justice using the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall in 1967 as a framing device for his life story.
Joe Urschel, executive director of the National Law Enforcement Museum, talks about his new book “The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation.” The book tells the thrilling story of the hunt for notorious gangster George “Machine Gun” Kelly and how it launched the FBI and an obscure federal bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover.
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit “40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World – The Photography of Howard G. Buffett,” Emmy award-winning journalist Ann Curry moderates a panel of photo and video journalists who discuss how their work brings a sharpened focus on critical development issues.
Music historian Hugo Keesing talks about and samples songs inspired by the Vietnam War that covered a wide spectrum of viewpoints, from the war’s strongest advocates to its most passionate dissenters. In 2010 Keesing released “Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961–2008,” a 13-CD box set featuring over 300 songs inspired by the Vietnam War.
Washington Post sports reporter James Wagner helped kick off the Newseum’s latest exhibit, “Nationals at 10: Baseball Makes News.” The Chips Quinn alumnus talked about his beat covering Washington’s major league baseball team, as well as the impact the Newseum Institute’s Chips Quinn Scholars program had on his career in journalism.
Pop culture journalist Jen Chaney talks about her new book, “As If! The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew.” The book is an oral history of the making of the iconic film using recollections and insights collected from key cast and crew members.
Barry Svrluga, a sports writer for The Washington Post, talks about his new book, “The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season.” The book captures the frustration, impermanence and glory felt by the players, the staff and their families from the start of spring training to the final game of the year.
Cokie Roberts talks about her new book “Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868.” The book profiles the wives, sisters and female friends of the men leading America into, and through, this unprecedented conflict.
Author Andrea Mays talks about her new book, “The Millionaire and the Bard,” which tells the story of the making of William Shakespeare’s First Folio and the obsessive hunt three centuries later by American industrialist Henry Folger to track it down.
Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt talks about his new book, “The Queen: The Epic Ambition of Hillary and the Coming of a Second ‘Clinton’ Era.” Chris Cillizza, who writes the politics blog “The Fix” and covers the White House for The Washington Post, moderates the program.
Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg and literary manager of Disney Theatrical Group, talks about the making of “Newsies,” the Tony Award-winning musical about a group of newsboys in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Cerniglia is joined by W. Joseph Campbell, a professor in the School of Communication at American University, who will discuss the era in which newsies thrived and the state of journalism at the time.
Appearing during the 40th anniversary of Capital Pride, an annual LGBT festival in Washington, D.C., Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff and senior news writer Lou Chibbaro Jr. talk about the history of the newspaper and its award-winning coverage of the LGBT community.
Washington Post staff writer Carol Leonnig talks about her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning series about security lapses in the Secret Service. She is joined by Peter Wallsten, deputy national politics editor at the Post, who oversaw her reporting.
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s new exhibit, “Reporting Vietnam,” Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund founder and president Jan Scruggs and former UPI photographer Steve Northup share their memories of the Vietnam War.
On the 10th anniversary of The Huffington Post website, Washington, D.C., bureau chief Ryan Grim, senior politics editor Sam Stein and politics managing editor Amanda Terkel gather to talk about some of the biggest stories the site has covered.
Members of the U.S. Army’s 221st Signal Company, an official documenting agency for the U.S. Army, talk about their work chronicling the Vietnam War through photography and film.
Paul Begala, a political analyst and CNN commentator, interviews comedy writer Jon Macks about his new book “Monologue: What Makes America Laugh Before Bed.” Macks was the top writer for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” for 22 years.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest moderates a panel that includes Kevin Kallaugher, a political cartoonist at The Economist and winner of the 2015 Herblock Prize for political cartooning; Thanassis Cambanis, a Middle East correspondent and author of “Once Upon a Revolution”; and Vanessa Tucker, vice president for analysis at Freedom House, an independent organization that promotes freedom around the world.
Vietnam veteran and author Tim O’Brien headlines a panel discussion about the Vietnam War, where he talks about his service and the award-wining novels based on his war experiences. He is joined by Quang Pham, the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator’s wings; Mary “Edie” Meeks, an Army Nurse Corps volunteer who served in Saigon; and Paul Coates, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967.
To mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, author and historian James Swanson looks back at the event that shocked the nation.
Author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley shares the story of his 28-year friendship with renowned author, poet and activist Maya Angelou, the subject of his new book, “My Journey With Maya.”
Two days before the Nationals’ 2015 home opener, Kevin Sheehan and Thom Loverro, co-hosts of “The Sports Fix” on ESPN 980 Radio, preview the National League East champions' upcoming season and talk about the sports scene in Washington.
FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano and FBI historian John Fox talk about the history and significance of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, which marks its 65th anniversary in March.
Award-winning photographers MaryAnne Golon and Lucian Perkins share their experiences of recording crises around the world and putting themselves in harm’s way to capture conflict on the human level. They are joined by Michael Abramowitz, director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which relies on documentation taken by photojournalists to provide evidence of war crimes and to capture stories of destruction and devastation.
Carol McCabe Booker discusses pioneering journalist Alice Dunnigan, who shattered barriers in the late 1940s by becoming the first black female reporter credentialed to cover Congress and the White House. Booker edited and annotated a newly published edition of Dunnigan’s autobiography, “Alone Atop the Hill,” providing historical context to the journalist’s remarkable story.
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday previews the 87th annual Academy Awards and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the year.
Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about his new book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom.”
Eric Dezenhall, who heads one of the nation’s leading crisis management firms, talks about his new book, “Glass Jaw: A Manifest for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal.”
Dr. John Watson, director of the journalism division of American University School of Communication, and Corey Saylor, national legislative director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, join the Newseum Institute’s Gene Policinski for a “town hall” discussion about free speech and religious liberty in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy.
On the opening weekend of the Newseum exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.
In the wake of the attack on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders, Delphine Halgand, joins the Newseum and Nikahang Kowsar, a member of the board of directors of Cartoonists Rights Network International, for a timely discussion about free expression and the dangers journalists face worldwide.
Associated Press Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page discuss restrictions on press access to President Obama.
W. Joseph Campbell talks about his new book, “1995: The Year the Future Began,” which examines the events of that watershed year and how they reverberate today.
Michael Doyle, a reporter in the D.C. bureau of McClatchy newspapers, joins host John Maynard for a discussion about the recent controversy involving Sony Pictures Entertainment’s hacking scandal and the company’s decision to cancel the release of the movie “The Interview” in response to threats from the hacker group Guardians of Peace.
Chuck Todd, moderator and managing editor of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” discusses his new book, “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House.”
Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson discusses news coverage of the Iraq war and veterans affairs with Beverly and Rainer Bosselmann, parents of Marine Cpl. Kirk Bosselmann, who died in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004; and Cpl. Christian Dominguez, who served with Bosselmann during the bloody Fallujah offensive.
On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former East German citizens Ralph Kabisch and Toralf Pilz talk about their incredible journeys out of East Germany.
Barrie Dunsmore, who covered foreign affairs for ABC News for 30 years, recounts his live coverage from Berlin on the night the Berlin Wall fell. During his career at ABC, Dunsmore focused on events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as the Iron Curtain began to disintegrate.
Author Mary Elise Sarotte talks about her new book, “The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall,” which reveals how a perfect storm of decisions by underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the fall of the wall.
Matt Bai, national political columnist for Yahoo News, talks about his new book, “All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid.” The book examines how press coverage of 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart’s personal life marked a turning point in the relationship between the media and politics.
The Newseum looks back at the career and impact on American journalism of legendary Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee.
On the 30th anniversary of the debut of “The Cosby Show,” Mark Whitaker talks about his new book, “Cosby: His Life and Times,” the first major biography of comedian Bill Cosby.
Brankica Stankovic, a recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 2014 Courage in Journalism Awards, talked about her work and the pursuit of the truth under dangerous conditions. The award honors female journalists who set themselves apart by their extraordinary bravery.
To mark the opening of the Newseum’s new exhibit “The Boomer List,” photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discussed his large-format portraits of the 19 influential baby boomers who make up the exhibit.
Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever previews the 2014 fall TV season and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the upcoming season. He also talks about the art of criticism and trends in the television industry.
Jim Freeman, Terry Turchie and Donald Max Noel, who were part of the FBI team that captured the Unabomber, talk about their new book “Unabomber: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski.” This panel discussion was a co-production of the Newseum and the National Law Enforcement Museum.
After the murders of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria, McClatchy reporters Jonathan Landay and Nancy Youssef discuss their personal experiences reporting from the world’s most dangerous regions.
Radio pioneer Cathy Hughes talks about her role as the founder of Radio One, the largest black-owned broadcast company in the United States.
John W. Dean, former legal counsel to President Richard M. Nixon, talks about his new book, "The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It," published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation from office.
Joseph McNeil of the "Greensboro Four" and original Freedom Rider Dion Diamond recount their experiences on the front lines of the civil rights movement 50 years ago.
Washington journalist and historian John Muller talks about his new book, "Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent," which chronicles Twain's time in Washington. Joining Muller is Donald Ritchie, historian of the U.S. Senate, who wrote one of the book's forewords and authored "Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents."
Twenty-five years later, former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw recounts his coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 that ended in a massacre.
Fox News Channel's Bret Baier talks about his role at the cable news network as chief political anchor and anchor of "Special Report With Bret Baier."
Afro-American Newspapers publisher John J. Oliver and Washington Informer publisher Denise Rolark Barnes talk about the state of the African American press.
Newseum architect James Stewart Polshek, and journalist and architect Roger Lewis, discuss Polshek's new book, "Build, Memory."
Washington Post sports writer Steven Goff and University of Maryland men's soccer head coach Sasho Cirovski preview the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on June 12 in Brazil.
Boston Globe reporters Scott Helman and Jenna Russell talk about their new book, "Long Mile Home," which tells the gripping and tragic story of the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013.
Author Lee A. Craig talks about "Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times," his new biography of politician and newspaper publisher Josephus Daniels. As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and President Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the Navy during World War I, Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country.
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan talks about his new memoir, "Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine," which recounts his life from his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia through his extraordinary career.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker talk about their new book "Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love."
Local broadcasting legend Johnny Holliday, who hosts the Washington Nationals pregame and postgame shows on the MASN Network, previews the 2014 baseball season and shares stories from his long career in sports broadcasting.
Washington Post movie critic Ann Hornaday previews the 86th annual Academy Awards and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the year.
White House photographers Dennis Brack and Charles Dharapak talk about restrictions on press access to President Barack Obama.
Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood talks about his newspaper article that inspired the 2013 blockbuster film, "Lee Daniels' The Butler."
Photojournalist Ted Polumbaum's widow and daughter, Nyna Brael Polumbaum and Judy Polumbaum, will discuss the photos he took in 1964 during Freedom Summer, an organized campaign to register black voters in Mississippi.
Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy talk about their book “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice.” Cullen and Murphy appeared at the Newseum nine days before Bulger’s federal trial began in Boston. He was apprehended in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.