Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?
International conference
30 June – 1 July 2026
University of Lausanne
(Vortex, Nucleo room)
Organisation
- Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (Université de Lausanne)
- Martin Grandjean (Université de Lausanne)
- Arthur Michelet (Université de Lausanne)
- Marten Düring (Université du Luxembourg)
About
Building on our ongoing reflections on a historical “transmedia” approach, this international conference—organized by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne—aims to move beyond the traditional understanding of press-radio relations. As the two main information media in the 20th century, their relationship has often been reduced in literature to one of simple institutional competition. This conference seeks to investigate the complexity of their relations. It aims to throw light on mutual influences over content and format, staff and practices circulation between the two media, as well as cross-representations and cross-uses. A central objective is to explore the novel research perspectives offered by the development of digital tools in the context of the digitization of press and radio archives.
Programme
Tuesday 30 June 2026
Introduction
09:00 — Welcome and Introduction by the Organizers
Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Martin Grandjean, Arthur Michelet (Université de Lausanne) and Marten Düring (Université du Luxembourg)
Radio Used by the Press: Intermedial Infrastructures and Practices at the Beginning of the 20th Century
09:30 — Session 1 — Chair: Marie Sandoz (Université de Lausanne)
La presse atlantique comme objet intermédial
Lisa Bolz (Université de Montréal), Juliette De Maeyer (Université Catholique de l’Ouest), Joël Langonné (Université Catholique de l’Ouest) and Dominique Trudel (Audencia Business School)
“Best Comrades Ever to Have Met”: How Editorial Broadcast Radio Services Catapulted Germany’s Printed Press Into the Fast-News Age (1919–1943)
Marco Althaus (NLQ State Institute, Hannover/Hildesheim)
Negotiating a New Medium: European Press Debating Radio in the Interwar Period
10:45 — Session 2 — Chair: Siân Nicholas (Aberystwyth University)
“A Grave Danger to Everything Special in Our Civilization”: The Welsh-Language Press and Radio in Wales in the 1920s and 1930s
Jamie Medhurst (Aberystwyth University)
Media Picturing Media: Implications of Media Change, Media Competition, and Complementarity in the Reception of the New Medium of Radio in the Contemporary Press
Johanna Walcher (University of Innsbruck)
“Ignore the Cries of the Uneducated Masses.” A Debate Concerning Radio Broadcast Music Programming in the Interwar Period of Czechoslovakia Appeared in Political Newspapers and Listener Magazines
Jakub Machek (Metropolitan University Prague)
Impresso session
13:15 — Analyzing the Press and Radio with Impresso Tools
Martin Grandjean, Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz and the Impresso team
Radio Magazines as Intermedial Devices
15:15 — Session 3 — Chair: Hans-Ulrich Wagner (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute)
From Distribution to Participation: Audience Practices Between Radio Frankfurt and the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkzeitung
Frederike Maas (ETH Zurich)
Making Radio Music Visible: Lexical and Iconographic Mediation of Musical Listening in Spain’s Ondas Magazine (1925-1935) – The LexiMus Project
María Palacios Nieto (Universidad de Salamanca)
Broadcasting Modernity: Radio, Print, and the Making of a Colonial Soundscape in French Cochinchina
Vy Cao (University of Luxembourg)
News Across the Media: Measuring, Structuring, and Mediating
16:45 — Session 4 — Chair: Kaspar Beelen (University of London)
Comparing News in Print and Broadcast Media: An Exploratory Digital Analysis of Swiss Press and Radio
Martin Grandjean (Université de Lausanne)
The Structures of Banking News on the Radio and in Newspapers in French-Speaking Switzerland, 1960–1989
Arthur Michelet (Université de Lausanne)
Prima Pagina: Daily Press on the Radio
Andrea Sangiovanni (Università degli Studi di Teramo)
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Keynote lecture
09:00 — Chair: Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (Université de Lausanne)
Intermediality in Wartime: Towards an Integrated History of the British Press and the BBC in WW2
Siân Nicholas (Aberystwyth University)
Remediation and Circulation of Content, Formats, and Practices
10:30 — Session 5 — Chair: Pierre Evéquoz (Université de Fribourg)
Stunde der Frau: From Page to Air – The Remediation of Women’s Journalism in Interwar Austria
Bianca Da Luz (Universität Wien)
Pour une histoire croisée des magazines féminins, de la presse écrite à la radio
Marine Beccarelli (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Rejuvenating the Children’s Sphere: Peregrinations Across Children’s Media in Bengal, 1939–1955
Hia Sen (Presidency University, India)
Entanglements Between Commercial Radio Stations and Magazines in the Long Sixties
Richard Legay (University of Göttingen, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute Freiburg)
Radio and Newspapers as Intertwined Systems: Cross-Mediatization and Propaganda
13:30 — Session 6 — Chair: Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg)
Media Consumption in Hungarian Villages During the Socialist Era Lídia Ispán Ágota (Institute of Ethnology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities)
Radio Free Europe and the Socialist Press: A Paradoxical Interaction
Ioana Macrea-Toma (Central European University)
Transmedia Careers and Professional Reconfigurations
14:45 — Session 7 – Chair: Roxane Gray (Université de Lausanne)
Itinéraire d’une figure médiatique totale : Le critique musical Émile Vuillermoz, de la presse à la radio… à la presse
Marie-Pier Leduc (Université de Lausanne)
From the Newspaper to the Radio Age: American Foreign Correspondents, Nazi Germany, and the Cross-Media Transformation of Political Journalism
Norman Domeier (Charles University Prague)
The Magazine Plans of Public Service Broadcasters and the Audiovisual Plans of Publishers: Intersections of Radio and Press in Post-War Germany
Hans-Ulrich Wagner (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute)
“Pourquoi les journalistes de la radio et la télévision suisse ne seraient-ils pas pleinement nos ‘confrères’ ?” (1943-1960)
Pierre Evéquoz (Université de Fribourg)
Convergences in the Digital Age
16:45 Session 8 – Chair: Arthur Michelet (Université de Lausanne)
L’adaptation des sujets radio pour la diffusion en ligne : chaînes de production et enjeux linguistiques
Gilles Merminod, Lena Möschler, Tristan Bornoz (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Université de Lausanne)
Quand la presse quotidienne investit le son : narration, innovation et hybridation médiatiques dans les podcasts d’actualités en France. Étude comparée entre Le Monde, Les Échos et Le Parisien Flore Di Sciullo (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)
Conclusion
17:35 — Conclusion of the conference — Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Martin Grandjean, Arthur Michelet (Université de Lausanne) and Marten Düring (University of Luxembourg)
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Olivier Stucky (5 avril 2026). Colloque – Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History? LPCM. Consulté le 14 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/160mg
