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Volume 45, No. 3, September 2019 The September issue contains articles by Paul Douglas Newman, Sid Bedingfield, Ken J. Ward, and Vicki Knasel Brown. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Red Journalism: The Allegheny Indians, Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, and the Ethnic Cleansing of…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Haygood podcast: The Anti-Christ of Advertising

For the 37th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Daniel Haygood about the many sides of controversial advertising executive Rosser Reeves. Daniel Haygood is an…

First Amendment Essay

Klein Essay: “Speaking Out”: Press Freedom in Ethiopia

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October of 2019, it was in part for "granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners,” including many…

Pressman podcast: The Press at the Precipice

4 Nov 20194 Nov 2019

For the 36th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Matthew Pressman about the emergence of a risky style of reporting and selling the news in…

Newman Essay: ‘Red Journalism’: Modeling Primary Research with Historical Newspapers

28 Oct 201929 Oct 2019

“‘Red Journalism’: The Allegheny Indians, Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, and the Ethnic Cleansing of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764” (Journalism History, September 2019) started as my term paper. In August 2018 I assigned…

Dick podcast: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

22 Oct 20194 Nov 2019

For the 35th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Bailey Dick about the radical journalism of Dorothy Day during her five decades at the helm…

Cooper podcast: Violence Against the Media

For the 34th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Caryl Cooper about the history of violence against the media from the Progressive Era to the…

First Amendment Essay

Myers Essay: Protecting Advertising and Public Relations

14 Oct 201914 Oct 2019

A Brief History of Commercial Speech Protection and the First Amendment Commercial speech has been an area of speech regulation that was said to be “plucked…out of thin air” by…

Brown podcast: The Media and the Mormon Struggle in Missouri

For the 33rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Vicki Knasel Brown about conflict faced by Mormons trying to settle in Missouri in the 1830s…

First Amendment Essay

The Judicial Legacy of “Or of the Press”

1 Oct 201929 Sep 2019

The First Amendment guarantees five rights. Freedom of the press is one of them, but what is the purpose of this constitutional guarantee? Is the press, as an institution, so…

Ward podcast: The “Vilest” Newspaper Titan

24 Sep 201924 Sep 2019

For the 32nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Ken J. Ward about the libel suit that disreputable Denver Post publisher Frederick G. Bonfils lodged…