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Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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100 Years of Pulitzer
30/01/2016 Duration: 46minRoy 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.
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Charlie Hebdo: One Year Later
09/01/2016 Duration: 57minPulitzer 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.
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The U.S. Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
19/12/2015 Duration: 52minCaren 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.
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The Press and Vietnam
21/11/2015 Duration: 34minAuthor 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.
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Today’s FBI
14/11/2015 Duration: 59minOn 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.
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Terror in Little Saigon
07/11/2015 Duration: 35minProPublica 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.
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Baseball in D.C.
17/10/2015 Duration: 53minSports communications strategist Frederic Frommer and former Washington Senators public address announcer Phil Hochberg talk about the history of baseball in Washington, D.C.
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The Life of Thurgood Marshall
10/10/2015 Duration: 50minBest-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.
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G-Men and Gangsters
27/09/2015 Duration: 43minJoe 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.
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Photojournalists on Covering Global Crisis
19/09/2015 Duration: 01h23minOn 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.
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Songs From the Vietnam War Era
12/09/2015 Duration: 49minMusic 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.
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Covering the Nationals With The Washington Post’s James Wagner
01/08/2015 Duration: 52minWashington 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.
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Pop Culture Journalist Jen Chaney on the Enduring Legacy of “Clueless”
25/07/2015 Duration: 32minPop 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.
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Washington Post Sports Writer Barry Svrluga On Baseball’s ‘Endless Season’
18/07/2015 Duration: 37minBarry 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.
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Cokie Roberts
11/07/2015 Duration: 44minCokie 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.
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In Search of Shakespeare’s Greatest Works
21/06/2015 Duration: 37minAuthor 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.
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Radio Talk Show Host Hugh Hewitt
20/06/2015 Duration: 58minRadio 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.
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The Making of “Newsies”
13/06/2015 Duration: 40minKen 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.
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The Washington Blade and 40 Years of Pride
06/06/2015 Duration: 36minAppearing 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.
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Security Lapses in the Secret Service
31/05/2015 Duration: 37minWashington 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.