Newseum Podcast
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Newseum Podcast
Hosts Frank Bond and Sonya Gavankar take listeners behind the scenes of some of the Newseum's most popular artifacts and exhibits and share details about the production of many of the museum's award-winning films.
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Inside Today’s FBI: Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum's FBI exhibit. Today's episode: How, after...
Inside Today’s FBI: Improvised Explosive Devices
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explorethe stories and the artifacts in the Newseum's FBI exhibit. Today'sepisode: How FBI inves...
Inside Today’s FBI: Shutting Down Silk Road
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore
the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum's FBI exhibit. Today's
episode:...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Suicide Bombing
Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini was on the scene when a suicide bombing in Kabul killed more than 70 people in 2011. Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-wi...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: River Rescue in Downtown Des Moines
Photographer Mary Chind discusses the harrowing moments when she captured scenes of a daring rescue from a rushing river for the Des Moines Register i...
Inside Today’s FBI: Boston Marathon Bombing
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How Boston...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Defending the Barricade
Oded Bality, the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer, discusses his prize-winning photograph of a lone young Jewish woman defying I...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Final Salute
Todd Heisler spent a year photographing the funerals of Colorado Marines who died in Iraq and the officer whose job it was to notify families of each...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Operation Lion Heart
Deanne Fitzmaurice captured the emotional and physical journey of a severely injured Iraqi boy who was nearly killed by an explosion, but who was even...
Inside Today’s FBI: D.C. Snipers
Host Sonya Gavankar and Newseum curator Carrie Christoffersen explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: the...
Inside Today’s FBI: 9/11
Host Sonya Gavankar and Patty Rhule, director of exhibit development, explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s epis...
Inside Today’s FBI: Surveillance Dinosaurs
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: how toy din...
Eyewitness News with Al Primo
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Eyewitness News format, which was pioneered by Al Primo in Philadelphia, Pa. In this special episode of th...
Inside Today’s FBI: Times Square Car Bomb
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The Nissan...
Inside Today’s FBI: Whitey Bulger
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The hat tha...
Inside Today’s FBI: Ghost Stories
Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The “Ghost...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Veterans Day Edition
Photojournalist Craig Walker talks about his 2010 and 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo series. The first, “Ian Fisher: American Soldier,” is an intim...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Central American Migrants
Los Angeles Times photojournalist Don Bartletti discusses his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo series about young Central American migrants and their...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: War and Peace in Afghanistan
Former New York Times picture editor Margaret O’Connor recalls the newspaper’s photographs of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and P...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Crisis in Haiti
Carol Guzy won the second of her four Pulitzers – more than any other journalist – photographing the tumultuous restoration of democracy in Haiti in S...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: 21
John Kaplan documented the diverse lifestyles of 21-year-olds in America and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1992. His subjects incl...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Baby Jessica
In 1987, the country was glued to the story of “Baby Jessica” McClure, a toddler who fell down a well and was trapped for 2-1/2 days. When rescuers fi...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Farm Crisis in Iowa
In 1986, David Peterson documented the worst rural economic crisis since the Great Depression for the Des Moines (Iowa) Register. His images of farmer...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Homeless in Philadelphia
Tom Gralish won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 at age 29 for his gritty and honest photo series of homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia. In an i...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: El Salvador — The Killing Ground
Photographer James B. Dickman covered the civil war in El Salvador for the Dallas Times Herald. Dickman’s telling photographs of the war and his abili...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Assassination Attempt on President Reagan
When gunfire erupted as Ronald Reagan exited the Washington Hilton Hotel on March 30, 1981, senior White House photographer Ron Edmonds was on the sce...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Combat in Vietnam
Associated Press photographer Horst Faas was based in Saigon from 1962 until 1974. In 1965, he won his first Pulitzer Prize for his combat photography...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Tragedy by the Sea
In the spring of 1954, Los Angeles Times photographer John Gaunt captured a moment of grief on the beach between young parents whose 19-month-old chil...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: A Glimpse of Life
Chicago native John H. White was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1982 “for consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects....
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Texas Cowboys
Erwin Hagler won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1980 for his compelling photo series documenting the lifestyle of a cowboy. In an inter...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Firing Squad in Iran
In 1980, the Pulitzer Prize was given anonymously for the first and only time in the award’s history. The Spot News Photography winner had captured a...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Tragedy on Sanatoga Road
In 1978, photographer Thomas J. Kelly III was the first journalist on the scene of a brutal and terrifying attack by a deranged man who fatally stabbe...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Fire Escape Collapse
On July 22, 1975, in Boston, a 19-year-old and her 2-year-old goddaughter were trapped in a burning building. A firefighter, Robert O’Neill, shielded...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Moment of Life
Brian Lanker details the special bond he shares with his famous photo of childbirth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and discusses the stark con...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Campus Guns
In April 1969, racial tensions at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., came to a head on the premises of the student union building. Peaceful negotiati...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: The Kiss of Life
On a sweltering summer day in Jacksonville, Florida, Electric Authority linemen were making repairs atop poles when a worker was hit with 4,160 volts...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Racial Violence in College Football
In 1951, the sight of an African-American player on an Oklahoma college football field was rare – and unwelcome. In a game at Oklahoma A&M University,...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Atlanta Hotel Fire
One night in 1946, college student Arnold Hardy arrived home to hear firetrucks in the street at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta. He grabbed his camera...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Vietnam – Terror of War
On June 8, 1972, AP Photographer Nick Ut was covering a battle in South Vietnam when napalm meant for enemy fighters fell instead on civilians. Ut cap...
Pulitzer Prize Photography: Moment of Reflection
Robin Hood served in Vietnam as an Army information officer and returned a photographer. At an Armed Forces Day parade in 1976, he caught sight of ano...