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Broadcasting

One-to-many, life, invisible

All the King's Henchmen

Jan 1, 2026

All the King's Henchmen

A history of hands at CBS

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Choose Life

Dec 11, 2025

Choose Life

What if the pod-quitters are just...sane?

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
The Mysterious Listener

Dec 4, 2025

The Mysterious Listener

How radio invented audience research, "like" buttons and all

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Haunted

Oct 30, 2025

Haunted

Why ghostly spirits have always flowed with the electrons. Plus: spooky listening recs.

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
The Three-Minute Rule

Oct 23, 2025

The Three-Minute Rule

Audio Flux opens our ears to the power of duration

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Good Tape, Bad Tape

Oct 16, 2025

Good Tape, Bad Tape

When re-enactments and docudramas were the pinnacle of audio journalism

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Hard Candy

Sep 25, 2025

Hard Candy

ABC is the love-child of US regulators and Life Savers — and that's not even the weird part

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
What If We Give It Away?

Sep 11, 2025

What If We Give It Away?

Weird, maybe even good, money ideas from when broadcasting was young

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
No Way Out

Sep 4, 2025

No Way Out

In broadcasting, the Red Scare turned into a stupid hall of mirrors

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Half a Century in the Wilderness

Aug 7, 2025

Half a Century in the Wilderness

As the CPB dies, we can still learn from America's long era with no public broadcasting

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
A digression in "Soapland"

Jul 24, 2025

A digression in "Soapland"

Plus why radio hand signals are way better than Google Docs 👀

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Who Will Cover the Vital Midriff?

Jul 3, 2025

Who Will Cover the Vital Midriff?

The lost visual weirdness of local radio

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
A Letter to George Clooney

Jun 5, 2025

A Letter to George Clooney

What else we should learn from the story of Edward R. Murrow

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
The Sound of Her Voice

May 22, 2025

The Sound of Her Voice

How sexism got hard-wired into radio

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
🎙️Fear the Microphone🎙️

May 1, 2025

🎙️Fear the Microphone🎙️

"Mike fright" was so widespread in radio’s first decade, it affected the design of studios and programs. It still haunts podcasting today.

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
No Self-Winding Phonographs!

Apr 10, 2025

No Self-Winding Phonographs!

Radio's "liveness bias" started as a regulation, then turned into a business model that grew ever more absurd

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
An Audio History Starter Pack

Apr 3, 2025

An Audio History Starter Pack

There's so much great scholarship on radio and podcasting. Here's a list to get you started.

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
What's Live Got to Do With It?

Apr 3, 2025

What's Live Got to Do With It?

For more than two decades, the biggest US radio networks insisted on live programming and tried to ban recorded material on air. Why?

Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Words are Waves

Mar 29, 2025

Words are Waves

Why learn from broadcasting’s past? Because everything is broadcasting.

Julia Barton
Julia Barton

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