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Volume 49, No. 1, Spring 2023 The Spring issue contains articles by Edgar Simpson; Anna E. Lindner, Michael Fuhlhage, D.T. Frazier, & Keena Neal; Glen Feighery; and Jeanne S. Criswell, Robert H. Gobetz, & Frederick E. May. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Manipulating the Sphere: Mississippi’s…Continue reading “Current Issue”

McGarr Podcast: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War Washington

22 May 20237 May 2023

For the 127th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists.…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: The Intersectionality of Race and Power in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

15 May 20237 May 2023

How Fred Rogers and François Clemmons led with Compassion Following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, U.S. cities erupted in violent civil unrest. African Americans’ social oppression reached its…

Everbach Podcast: Monica Lewinsky and 1998 Newspaper Framing

8 May 20237 May 2023

For the 126th episode of the Journalism History podcast, researcher Tracy Everbach discusses the 25th anniversary since the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair became national news and the problematic coverage that…

Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

1 May 202315 Apr 2023

2023-5 | Download PDF Olmsted, Kathryn. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 328 pp., $30.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780300256420, Reviewed by…

Martens Podcast: Advertising and the Great Depression

24 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

For the 125th episode of the Journalism History podcast, University of Kansas student Chloe Martens discusses her research examining how advertisers framed their products during the Dust Bowl/Great Depression years. Chloe…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: TV Cigar-Store Indians: Test Patterns, Ads, and ‘Whiting Out’ History

17 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

"Those who tell the stories rule the world," Hopi Nation proverb Television tapped into our human hunger for stories. Like earlier forms of media, TV’s narratives told us who we…

Article Award…

AEJMC History Division Announces 2023 Sweeney Award Winner

Paul Myers and Lisa Parcell of Wichita State University won the 2023 Michael S. Sweeney Award for their article, “Beauty and the Bran: Kellogg’s Campaign to ‘Correct Faulty Elimination’ and…

Yarrow Podcast: The Forgotten Magazine

10 Apr 20236 Apr 2023

For the 124th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Former New York Times reporter, book author, and historian Andrew L. Yarrow shares the overlooked history of Look magazine, a photojournalistic rival…

Örnebring, Karlsson, Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept

3 Apr 20231 Apr 2023

2023-4 | Download PDF Örnebring, Henrick and Karlsson, Michael. Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2022, 370 pp., $40.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780826222541 Reviewed by John-Erik Koslosky,…

Legg Podcast: The History of Deaf Printers

27 Mar 202323 Mar 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, Curator Jannelle Legg discusses a new online exhibit examining the role of Deaf printers in journalism history. Jannelle Legg is assistant professor…