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.

Conference website: https://impresso.github.io/radio-and-newspapers-conference/ 

Tuesday 30 June 2026

Introduction

• 09:00 Welcome and Introduction by the Organizers - RUPPEN COUTAZ Raphaëlle, GRANDJEAN Martin, MICHELET Arthur (Université de Lausanne) and DÜRING Marten (University of Luxembourg)

Radio Used by the Press: Intermedial Infrastructures and Practices at the Beginning of the 20th Century

09:30 SESSION 1 - Chair SANDOZ Marie (Université de Lausanne)

• La presse atlantique comme objet intermédial - BOLZ Lisa (Sorbonne Université), DE MAEYER Juliette (Université de Montréal), LANGONNÉ Joël (Université Catholique de l’Ouest), TRUDEL Dominique (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) - ALTHAUS Marco (NLQ State Institute, Hannover/Hildesheim)

10:20 Coffee

Negotiating a New Medium: European Press Debating Radio in the Interwar Period

10:45 SESSION 2 - Chair NICHOLAS Siân (Aberystwyth University)

• “A Grave Danger to Everything Special in Our Civilization”: The Welsh-Language Press and Radio in Wales in the 1920s and 1930s - MEDHURST Jamie (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 - WALCHER Johanna (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 - MACHEK Jakub (Metropolitan University Prague)

12:00 Lunch break

Impresso session

• 13:15 Analyzing the Press and Radio with Impresso Tools - GRANDJEAN Martin, RUPPEN COUTAZ Raphaëlle and the Impresso team

14:45 Coffee

Radio Magazines as Intermedial Devices

15:15 SESSION 3 - Chair WAGNER Hans-Ulrich (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institute)

• From Distribution to Participation: Audience Practices Between Radio Frankfurt and the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkzeitung - MAAS Frederike (ETH Zurich)

• Making Radio Music Visible: Lexical and Iconographic Mediation of Musical Listening in Spain’s Ondas Magazine (1925-1935) - The LexiMus Project - PALACIOS NIETO María (Universidad de Salamanca)

• Broadcasting Modernity: Radio, Print, and the Making of a Colonial Soundscape in French Cochinchina - CAO Vy (University of Luxembourg)

16:30 Short break

News Across the Media: Measuring, Structuring, and Mediating

16:45 SESSION 4 - Chair BEELEN Kaspar (University of London)

• Comparing News in Print and Broadcast Media: An Exploratory Digital Analysis of Swiss Press and Radio - GRANDJEAN Martin (Université de Lausanne)

• The Structures of Banking News on the Radio and in Newspapers in French-Speaking Switzerland, 1960–1989 - MICHELET Arthur (Université de Lausanne)

• Prima Pagina: Daily Press on the Radio - SANGIOVANNI Andrea (Università degli Studi di Teramo)

18:15 Social event

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Keynote lecture

09:00 - Chair RUPPEN COUTAZ Raphaëlle (Université de Lausanne)

• Intermediality in Wartime: Towards an Integrated History of the British Press and the BBC in WW2 - NICHOLAS Siân (Aberystwyth University)

10:15 Coffee

Remediation and Circulation of Content, Formats, and Practices

10:30 SESSION 5 - Chair: EVÉQUOZ Pierre (Université de Fribourg)

• Stunde der Frau: From Page to Air – The Remediation of Women’s Journalism in Interwar Austria - DA LUZ Bianca (Universität Wien)

• Pour une histoire croisée des magazines féminins, de la presse écrite à la radio - BECCARELLI Marine (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Rejuvenating the Children’s Sphere: Peregrinations Across Children’s Media in Bengal, 1939–1955 - SEN Hia (Presidency University, India)

• Entanglements Between Commercial Radio Stations and Magazines in the Long Sixties - LEGAY Richard (University of Göttingen, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute Freiburg)

12:10 Lunch break

Radio and Newspapers as Intertwined Systems: Cross-Mediatization and Propaganda

13:30 SESSION 6 - Chair: DÜRING Marten (University of Luxembourg)

• Media Consumption in Hungarian Villages During the Socialist Era - ISPÁN ÁGOTA Lídia (Institute of Ethnology, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities)

• Radio Free Europe and the Socialist Press: A Paradoxical Interaction - MACREA-TOMA Ioana (Central European University)

14:20 Coffee

Transmedia Careers and Professional Reconfigurations

14:45 SESSION 7 - Chair: GRAY Roxane (Université de Lausanne)

• Itinéraire d’une figure médiatique totale : Le critique musical Émile Vuillermoz, de la presse à la radio… à la presse - LEDUC Marie-Pier (Université de Lausanne)

• From the Newspaper to the Radio Age: American Foreign Correspondents, Nazi Germany, and the Cross-Media Transformation of Political Journalism - DOMEIER Norman (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 - WAGNER Hans-Ulrich (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) - EVÉQUOZ Pierre (Université de Fribourg)

16:25 Short break

Convergences in the Digital Age

16:45 SESSION 8 - Chair: MICHELET Arthur (Université de Lausanne)

• L’adaptation des sujets radio pour la diffusion en ligne : chaînes de production et enjeux linguistiques - MERMINOD Gilles, MÖSCHLER Lena, BORNOZ Tristan (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 - DI SCIULLO Flore (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)

Conclusion

17:35 Conclusion of the conference - RUPPEN COUTAZ Raphaëlle, GRANDJEAN Martin, MICHELET Arthur (Université de Lausanne) and DÜRING Marten (University of Luxembourg)