Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

Assoc Professor, University of Colorado; Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio colorado.edu/cmci/people/me… Joined November 2015

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CU Boulder CMCI Media Studies @cumediastudies

4 days ago

Congrats to Sandra Ristovska @s_ristovska, who in addition to her 2025/26 fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, has been awarded the Leonore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication. casbs.stanford.edu

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

3 weeks ago

This is very good news.

Steven Pinker @sapinker

3 weeks ago

This is very good news.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

3 weeks ago

Had a great time talking about WWII propaganda films on "You're Missing Out" - the podcast that discusses films on the National Film Registry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

3 weeks ago

Delighted to have interviewed with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti "On Point." First half discusses the historical intricacies of the US public media ecosystem. Second half I tried to detail how the GOP rescission bill was designed to attack democratic media. wbur.org/onpoint/2025/0…

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

3 weeks ago

Writing so that an argument is ordered in a specific way, and choosing one’s words so that they express an intended meaning, is a responsible way to conduct solid scholarship. Is it the most entertaining approach? Depends the audience.

Jerry Coyne @Evolutionistrue

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

3 weeks ago

I'm interviewed for this Nieman Lab report that discusses how rural areas will be affected by loss of local NPR reporting. We must not underestimate the import of equal access to information - we're about to witness an ideological shift in sense of "place."niemanreports.org/local-trusted-…

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Al Jazeera PR @AlJazeera

4 weeks ago

Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by Israeli occupation forces Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and…

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

4 weeks ago

At the Albertina Art Museum. A little boy encountered Kandinsky for the first time. His face turned, he yelled “no no no,” and started to bang his head against a bench. Now that’s an effective painting.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

4 weeks ago

Our recent analysis made a sectional front page of the print edition of the Denver Post!

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CU Boulder CMCI Media Studies @cumediastudies

a month ago

Josh Shepperd gave an in-depth interview with the Chicago Tribune about how funding cuts are affecting public media.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune

a month ago

Josh Shepperd gave an in-depth interview with the Chicago Tribune about how funding cuts are affecting public media.

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Erica Robles Anderson @fstflofscholars

a month ago

Texts matter. They hold institutional memory across people, situations, and time.

judah @joodalooped

a month ago

Texts matter. They hold institutional memory across people, situations, and time.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd

a month ago

Allison Perlman (UC Irvine) and I are still writing the official "History of Public Broadcasting" update for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Current, public media's trade journal. Current will print it. Prescient project.

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Salwa Hoque @SalwaHoque

a month ago

Be kind to international scholars. Many face significant institutional, structural, & financial barriers - navigating visa restrictions, currency asymmetries, language bias, & cultural differences - to even be in the same room with the “best.” So please, extend grace & make space

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MLB Network @MLBNetwork

a month ago

"The last couple of days, he wanted to speak to me, Andre [Dawson] and Mark Grace. He told us that he loved us and he loved all you @Cubs fans too. Go Cubs." An emotional Shawon Dunston speaks on the impact his legendary double play partner, Ryne Sandberg, made on him.