Quick Video Interview on “Girl Stunt Reporters”

Jezebel produced this 3.5-minute interview about Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” as part of the “Rummaging through the Attic” series. Topics covered included individual journalists, what’s wrong with the wholesale dismissal of “yellow journalism,” and the origins of the book cover. The interviewer also let me sum up my take-home message this way: “When you see people denigrating writing specifically by women as frivolous or not serious or sentimental . . . we should always meet that criticism with a question.”