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Featured Image: “Dark City,” by Dennis Leung (CC BY 2.0) Volume 47, No. 3, Sept. 2021 The September issue contains articles by Katrina Quinn, Wing Kin Puk, Mary Cronin, and Autumn Linford. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Big Brains and the Solid South:…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Forde Podcast: Journalism and Jim Crow

For the 93rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde discusses her co-edited book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle…

Mitchell, Lincoln’s Lie

22 Nov 202119 Nov 2021

2021-018 | Download PDF Mitchell, Elizabeth. Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2020. 320 pp. $26.00. Reviewed…

Fainberg Podcast: Truth and Ideology among Cold War Correspondents

15 Nov 202110 Nov 2021

For the 92nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Dina Fainberg explores the experiences of U.S. and Soviet foreign correspondents during the Cold War and the…

9/11 Essay Series

Wilson Essay: Scholastic media document 9/11 from student perspective

8 Nov 20218 Nov 2021

It wasn’t that long ago. I was teaching a workshop for high school journalism students somewhere around Texas. As I do with so many workshops, I asked the students some…

Allen Podcast: Ratings Powerhouses Univision and Telemundo

1 Nov 202129 Oct 2021

For the 91st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Craig Allen describes how Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo became ratings powerhouses by programming a…

Quinn Essay: Reporting on Political Candidates and Elections

Nineteenth-century political candidates rarely campaigned for office. More gentlemanly it would be to stay in the background, to accept the nomination out of duty rather than out of desire. But…

Morton, Sirens of Wartime Radio

25 Oct 202122 Oct 2021

2021-017 | Download PDF Scott A. Morton, The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 202 pp., $95.00 (hardcover). Reviewed…

Greenwood Podcast: How the Other Half Lives

18 Oct 202115 Oct 2021

For the 90th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Historian Keith Greenwood shares the story of muckraker Jacob Riis and his famous photography examining How the…

9/11 Essay Series

Kilmer Essay: 9/11 – The Steel Crumbled, but the Friendship Narratives Endured

11 Oct 20219 Oct 2021

When everything we thought was solid crumbles, we retrieve from our hearts the stories that calm, heal, and empower us to hope for a better tomorrow. Twenty years ago, in…

Lamonica Podcast: Civil War Press Suppression in the American West

4 Oct 20211 Oct 2021

For the 89th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Mary Lamonica describes the editorial battles waged among American West newspaper editors during the Civil War and…