Gene Allen, professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, charts the career of Kent Cooper, who joined the Associated Press in 1910 before climbing the ranks and becoming its executive director. Allen describes how Cooper expanded the AP's overseas operations and fended off competing wire services such as the United Press during his more than four decades with the AP. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/
Episode 46: A Nation of Newsboys
Episode 45: News for the Masses
Episode 44: Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets
Episode 43: Jimmy Carter’s Miraculous Win
Episode 42: Covering Conflict & Controversy
Episode 41: Defending Joe McCarthy
Episode 40: 1995: The Year The Future Began
Episode 39: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Episode 38: Emma Goldman & the First Amendment
Episode 37: The Anti-Christ of Advertising
Episode 36:The Press at the Precipice
Episode 35: Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker
Episode 34: Violence Against the Media
Episode 33: The Media & The Mormon Struggle in Missouri
Episode 32: The “Vilest” Newspaper Titan
Episode 31: The History of Televised Presidential Debates
Episode 30: Black Celebrity Journalism
Episode 29: The Stonewall Riots
Episode 28: Your Paper Saved Seattle
Episode 27: Mathew Brady and Photographic Copyright
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