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If you're one of those people who has shuddered at the thought of spiders, snakes, or other creepy crawlies invading your space, you might get ne...

Elmwood is a small town in Illinois that had a population of 1,500 when Nelson Dean Jay was growing up. But the small-town boy went on to make a name ...

The past 20 years have not been kind to the newspaper industry. Margot Susca, a communications professor at American University in Washington, D.C. an...

We had another busy year on Read Beat in 2023--more than 50 interviews, almost one per week. Your host is Steve Tarter, a retired newspaper reporter l...

Media folks have been taking questions about the magazine industry to "Mr. Magazine" for decades. Samir Husni, 70, now retired after more th...

J.P. Telotte has been writing about film since 1985. As the man who introduced film studies to Georgia Tech University, Telotte, now professor emeritu...

Most of us are familiar with Nancy, the comic strip penned for decades by Ernie Bushmiller, but what about the new Nancy now produced by Olivia Jaimes...

Route 66 still stands as a symbol of the road west, the open highway representing independence and mobility, two values that Americans consider part o...

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guide book for African Americans published between 1936 and 1967. The publication served as a guide to finding bus...

Of all the general-interest magazines that held sway for decades before bowing out in the mid-20th century, Look is the one that’s often forgotten, sa...

Peoria native Anthony Suau won awards for his photography while taking pictures for big-city dailies like the Chicago Sun-Times and Denver Post. His p...

Advertising has been part of the American scene since the beginning. Jennifer Black, in her new book, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks...