Host David Escobar sits down with Sperber Book Prize finalist Mary Llewellyn McNeil to discuss her book Century's Witness: The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll.

Host David Escobar sits down with Sperber Book Prize finalist and Northwestern University history professor Deborah Cohen to discuss her book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War.

Host David Escobar sits down with Sperber Book Prize winner and UC Davis professor Kathryn Olmsted to discuss her book The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler.

Cokie Roberts was a glass ceiling-breaking role model for countless women, whether it was her pioneering 40-year broadcast television and radio career or authorship of five bestselling books centered around the role of women in American history. But behind the public image, her husband, Steven V. Roberts, says Cokie had a greater devotion: helping others.

Rina Lokaj sits down with Roberts to discuss his biography Cokie: A Life Well Lived, which dives into his wife's private life behind her public figure. The talk about sexism in media, devotion to family, and Cokie's enduring legacy.

Margaret Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor-in-chief. She was later appointed public editor at The New York Times – the first woman to ever hold the position – where she navigated the paper's controversies, including Hillary Clinton's emails. She later left for The Washington Post, where she observed the rise of Donald Trump in the American media and political landscapes.

Sullivan sits down with Rina Lokaj to discuss her life and memoir Newsroom Confidential, including the trend of American polarization and sexism in the media.

Laurie Segall, who served as the senior tech correspondent at CNN for more than a decade, had a front-row seat to the rise of tech entrepreneurs like Meta's Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter's Zach Dorsey.

She sits down with Rina Lokaj to discuss her memoir Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, including the stories of the humans behind the world's biggest tech companies that are shaping out shared social, political, and cultural experiences.

Vincent Kiernan is Dean of the Metropolitan School of Professional Studies at The Catholic University of America. His book, Atomic Bill: A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb, examines the fraught career of New York Times journalist William L. Laurence, the man recruited by the government to write their press materials to be distributed on that day that the nuclear bomb leveled Hiroshima.

Rina Lokaj sits down with Kiernan to discuss the history laid out in his book as well as Laurence's complicated legacy, including the influence of propaganda on journalists, the relationship between science and the media, and the importance of ethics.

Elizabeth Becker began her career as a war correspondent for the Washington Post in Cambodia. She's served as the Senior Foreign Editor for National Public Radio and has won numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the New York Times team that covered 9/11.

And Becker's most recent book You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War was the recipient of the 2022 Sperber Book Prize. She joins Rina Lokaj to discuss the stories of three trailblazing female journalists who broke the barriers for women covering war.