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Volume 52, No. 3, Fall, 2026. In this Special Issue we explore Media Literacy, Mis/Disinformation Research, and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. We start with an introduction from guest editor, the Institute of Propaganda Anaylsis’, Anya Schiffrin, where she explores Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Special Issue…Continue reading “Current Issue”

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SIX MEDIA HISTORIANS SELECTED FOR JOURNALISM HISTORY AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM DIVERSITY MICROGRANTS

25 Aug 202625 Aug 2026

Six media historians have been selected to receive funding that will support their research related to diversity and media history. The microgrants, sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism…

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Chatting with Michael S. Sweeney Award Winner, Krystal Akehinmi

17 Aug 202618 Aug 2026

By Josie Vine, RMIT University, Melbourne. Krystal Akehinmi says Journalism History "really gets" her research Michael S. Sweeney Award winner, Krystal Akehinmi The first inkling Krystal Akehinmi had about winning…

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Chatting with Tom Reilly award winner, Nick Hirshon.

By Josie Vine, RMIT University, Melbourne. Associate Professor of Communication at William Paterson University, Nick aims to model good reviewing practice. Tom Reilly Award winner, Associate Professor Nick Hirshon Nick…

First Amendment Essay

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…