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Volume 46, No. 2, June 2020 The June issue contains articles by Amber Roessner, Wendy Melillo, Ronald Rodgers, and Stephen Banning, as well as an essay on archival collections by Sandra Roff. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Melillo podcast: The Problems with Polls

7 Jul 20206 Jul 2020

For the 53rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Wendy Melillo about how political polls have been used—and misused—and the election prediction mishaps in American…

Roessner Essay: Recovering the “Voices of the People”

30 Jun 202025 Jun 2020

Answering continued calls for a cultural approach to the study of women’s history, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters…

Rounkles podcast: Court Held at Midnight

23 Jun 20209 Jun 2020

For the 52nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Claire Rounkles about newspaper complicity in the 1894 lynching of Roscoe Parker in Ohio. This episode…

Student essay: Henry Voorhees

16 Jun 20209 Jun 2020

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…

Spector podcast: The Father of Public Relations

For the 51st episode of the Journalism History podcast, Shelley Spector describes interviewing opinion-making pioneer Edward Bernays about his landmark campaigns to sell bacon as a breakfast food and cigarettes…

Bonus podcast: Why does journalism history matter?

2 Jun 20201 Jun 2020

To celebrate the first 50 episodes of the Journalism History podcast, we reflect with prior guests on the central mission of our show: Why does journalism history matter? This episode…

Stoner podcast: A Pioneer in AIDS Coverage

26 May 202025 May 2020

For the 50th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Andrew Stoner about his new book on the complex life of Randy Shilts, a journalist who…

Foss podcast: The History of American Epidemics

19 May 202018 May 2020

For this bonus episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Katie Foss about how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of…

Conway podcast: The Made-for-Television Tunnel Escape

12 May 202018 May 2020

For the 49th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Mike Conway about the controversial production of a 1962 NBC documentary that captured the digging of…

Student essay: Destiny Duprey

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…