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Volume 47, No. 2, June 2021 The June issue contains articles by Stephen Bates, Dale Cressman, Randall Sumpter, Lindsay Hargrave & Carolyn Kitch, and Julien Gorbach & Michael Fuhlhage. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “A Free and Responsible University: The Hutchins Commission, the…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Kroeger Podcast: The Plucky Path of Nellie Bly

7 Jun 202125 May 2021

For the 81st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Brooke Kroeger about the daring career of Nellie Bly, the newspaper reporter who feigned insanity to investigate…

Krehbiel Podcast: The Tulsa Race Massacre

For the 80th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to journalist Randy Krehbiel about the Tulsa Race Massacre for the 100th anniversary of this long ignored moment…

Mangun, Editor Emory O. Jackson

2021-009 | Download PDF Mangun, Kimberley. Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975. New York: Peter Lang, 2019, 268 pp., $47.95…

Cecil Podcast: Hoover and the Fourth Estate

24 May 202124 May 2021

For the 79th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to author Matt Cecil about how J. Edgar Hoover built and protected a heroic narrative for the…

9/11 Essay Series

Somerstein Essay: Photographic Coverage of 9/11

17 May 202115 May 2021

If I ask you to picture 9/11, one of a handful of photographs likely comes to your mind: a plane hitting the World Trade Center; people fleeing Lower Manhattan; firefighters…

Harris, Paper Promises

13 May 202128 May 2021

2021-008 | Download PDF Harris, Mazie M. Paper Promises: Early American Photography. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018, 224 pp., $49.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Jason Lee Guthrie, Clayton State…

Reyes Podcast: The Commercialization of PBS

For the 78th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Camille Reyes about the history of the Public Broadcasting Service as a platform for new ideas…

Daniels Essay: Bridging the Worlds of Local TV News and Media History

3 May 202128 May 2021

On September 10, 2020, Janet Hall anchored her final newscast at top-rated Birmingham television station WBRC-TV. At the end of the 6 p.m. newscast, Hall’s co-anchor Jonathan Hardison introduced a…

Campbell, Lost in a Gallup

29 Apr 202118 Apr 2021

2021-007 | Download PDF Campbell, W. Joseph. Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 336 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Michael…

Napoli Podcast: The Founding Mothers of NPR

26 Apr 202117 Apr 2021

For the 77th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Lisa Napoli about how four women – Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts…