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Volume 52, No. 2, Summer, 2026. In this issue we celebrate 250 years of US independence, with the winning essay from our 2025/2026 Essay Competition, Independence, Incarcerated: Prison Journalism, Abolitionist Critique, and Commemorating the “Bicentennial Behind Bars” by Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute Fellow Dr. Thomas Cryer. We also have…Continue reading “Current Issue”

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Rothermere Fellow Wins Journalism History’s 2025-26 Essay competition

11 Feb 20263 Mar 2026

Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute Fellow Dr. Thomas Cryer has won the 2025-26 essay contest sponsored by Journalism History. Journalism History essay winner, Dr Thomas Cryer. A panel of judges…

Deadline Extended to Dec 25

14 Dec 202517 Dec 2025

Journalism History – 2025-26 Essay Competition Call The colonial-era US printer Benjamin Franklin is credited with responding to a question about what the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had produced by…

How America gets the news: A history of U.S. Journalism.

2025-12-Book-Review-November| Download PDF Ford Risley and Ashley Walter. How America gets the news: A history of U.S. Journalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, 239 pp., $25.20 (hardback) ISBN 9781442235267.…

Business as usual: How sponsored media sold American capitalism in the 20th century.

2025-11-Book-Review-November| Download PDF Jack, Caroline. Business as usual: How sponsored media sold American capitalism in the 20th century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 264 pp., $30.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 9780226835143…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: Developing Electoral Repertoires in Chilean Oppositional Magazines During the Transition to Democracy Under the Dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet

Developing Electoral Repertoires in Chilean Oppositional Magazines During the Transition to Democracy Under the Dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet Enrique Núñez-Mussa, School of Journalism, Michigan State University From 1973 to 1989,…

Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press.

5 Oct 20259 Oct 2025

2025-10-Book-Review-October| Download PDF Botma, Gawie. Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 308 pp., $190.00 (Hardback). ISBN 9781032954714. Reviewed by…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Call: 2025/ 2026 revolutionary movements

20 Sep 202517 Nov 2025

The colonial-era US printer Benjamin Franklin is credited with responding to a question about what the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had produced by saying, “A republic – if you can…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: How Grace Omaboe Defined Feminist Activism Journalism in Ghana to Predict an Activist Journalistic Future

How Grace Omaboe Defined Feminist Activism Journalism in Ghana to Predict an Activist Journalistic Future ivy fofie Assistant Professor of communication studies, LMU In the late 1990s and early 2000s,…

Last paper standing: A century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News.

2025-9-Book-Review-September| Download PDF Ward, Ken J. Last paper standing: A century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 278 pp.,…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: News Values Construct Roads for Historical Framing Research .

News Values Construct Roads for Historical Research Ronald W. Sitton Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University History serves as a guide to those who pay attention, providing paths to avoid and…