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Volume 46, No. 4, Dec. 2020 The December issue contains articles by Brandon Storlie, Will Mari, Rob Wells, Pamela Walck & Emily Fitzgerald, and Brian E. Campbell. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “‘We’ll Burn the Whole Stinking Town Down’: Newspaper Coverage of Detroit’s…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Wells podcast: Enforcement Journalism and the Keating Five Scandal

18 Jan 202118 Jan 2021

For the 70th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Rob Wells about how a trade publication uncovered a scandal involving five U.S. senators in the…

Mari Essay: Newsroom Work Poetry in Twentieth-Century American Journalism

I suspect that every media historian at some point sees something in their work that makes them remark (to themselves), “huh, wouldn’t that be a fun article?” This happens in…

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College Students Win National Podcast Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2021 Contact: Executive Producer Teri Finneman Six college students representing universities in Louisiana, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania won a national student podcast competition emphasizing…

Storlie podcast: Coverage of Detroit’s 12th Street Riot

For the 69th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Brandon Storlie about problematic news coverage of the July 1967 riot in Detroit, one of the…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (re-aired)

14 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

For the 68th episode of the Journalism History podcast, we re-air our December 2019 holiday episode. Journalism History podcast hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for…

Student essay: Terrell Henderson

8 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…

Burns podcast: Media Relations and First Ladies

1 Dec 202027 Nov 2020

For the 67th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Lisa Burns about her new book, Media Relations & The Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy…

Student essay: Anna Ullmann

24 Nov 202020 Nov 2020

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…

Newspaper Titans podcast, part II: William Randolph Hearst

17 Nov 202017 Nov 2020

For the 66th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Chris Daly and Mary Levkoff in the second of two episodes on the newspaper titans who…

Newspaper Titans podcast, part I: Joseph Pulitzer

17 Nov 202017 Nov 2020

For the 65th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Chris Daly and Jody Sowell in the first of two episodes on the newspaper titans who…