Newseum Podcast

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How the FBI infiltrated and shut down Ross (“Dread Pirate Roberts”) Ulbricht’s Silk Road website, a $1.2 billion market that sold illegal drugs and guns in the Internet’s hidden “darknet.”

Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini was on the scene when a suicide bombing in Kabul killed more than 70 people in 2011. Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the attack’s aftermath showed a 12-year-old girl, bloodied and screaming, among the survivors and the dead.

Photographer Mary Chind discusses the harrowing moments when she captured scenes of a daring rescue from a rushing river for the Des Moines Register in 2009. Chind won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography the following year.

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: How Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes went from marathon runner to breaking news reporter in the blink of an eye, and how the FBI tracked the perpetrators of the 2013 bombing.

Oded Bality, the only Israeli photographer to ever receive the Pulitzer, discusses his prize-winning photograph of a lone young Jewish woman defying Israeli officers attempting to clear illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Todd Heisler spent a year photographing the funerals of Colorado Marines who died in Iraq and the officer whose job it was to notify families of each Marine’s death. The haunting series won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

Deanne Fitzmaurice captured the emotional and physical journey of a severely injured Iraqi boy who was nearly killed by an explosion, but who was eventually saved by American doctors after traveling to California. Her photos earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

Host Sonya Gavankar and Newseum curator Carrie Christoffersen explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: the D.C. snipers who terrorized the greater Washington, D.C., area in 2002, the Bushmaster assault rifle they used to carry out their deadly attacks, and the tarot card they left near one of the shootings in an attempt to communicate with authorities.

Host Sonya Gavankar and Patty Rhule, director of exhibit development, explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: how the 9/11 attacks transformed the FBI into a counterterrorism agency and the car that transported the American Airlines Flight 77 hijackers from San Diego to Dulles Airport in Virginia.

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: how toy dinosaurs, rigged with hidden cameras, helped keep watch over a tense six-day long hostage situation in Alabama in 2013.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Eyewitness News format, which was pioneered by Al Primo in Philadelphia, Pa. In this special episode of the Newseum Podcast, Primo talks about the evolution of broadcast journalism with former TV reporter and Newseum producer, Frank Bond.

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The Nissan Pathfinder that nearly became a weapon of mass destruction in New York’s Times Square in 2010. The components of the homemade bomb are on display inside the vehicle in the exhibit.

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The hat that “Most Wanted” crime boss Whitey Bulger was wearing when the FBI arrested him after a 16-year manhunt, and how new media helped the bureau track him down.

Host Sonya Gavankar and exhibits writer Ellie Stanton explore the stories and the artifacts in the Newseum’s FBI exhibit. Today’s episode: The “Ghost Stories” spies who inspired the TV series “The Americans” and the spy camera and shortwave radio they used to collect information and send it to Russia.

Photojournalist Craig Walker talks about his 2010 and 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo series. The first, “Ian Fisher: American Soldier,” is an intimate profile of a young man who joins the Army during the height of insurgent violence in Iraq. “Welcome Home” follows Scott Ostrom, a soldier returning home from Iraq, and highlights his personal and professional challenges living with PTSD.

Los Angeles Times photojournalist Don Bartletti discusses his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo series about young Central American migrants and their journey to the United States aboard a network of Mexican freight trains informally known as “La Bestia.”

Former New York Times picture editor Margaret O’Connor recalls the newspaper’s photographs of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Times’ 2001 photo series attempted to educate readers on a culture that they felt was largely unknown to America at the time and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography the following year.

Carol Guzy won the second of her four Pulitzers – more than any other journalist – photographing the tumultuous restoration of democracy in Haiti in September 1994, when jubilation over the possible return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was punctuated with violence.