Last week, I posted my interview with Dr. Deborah Cohen as both video (for paid subscribers) and audio (for everyone), but I am realizing that the audio is not super intuitive to find (there’s a little icon of headphones on the left). So, like the interview with Professor Socolow, I’m reposting the audio now, so it is available to everyone.
Professor Deborah Cohen is a historian of European history at Northwestern University as well as the director of the Buffett Center. A few years ago, she published Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War, which won some prizes and got great reviews in all the usual places.
We covered a lot of ground, including:
The inseparable connections between reporters’ personal lives and the bigger stories that they cover
What American reporters saw that European reporters did not
A reporter who had a bar named after him in Baghdad
What Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film Foreign Correspondent gets right about mid-century American journalism
The back stories of the individual American journalists who covered Gandhi (and who were made into a composite in the biopic)
How a reporter’s husband feels when the President calls his wife for advice, and…
What happens when reporters undergo psychoanalysis
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