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Volume 45, No. 4, December 2019 The December issue contains articles by Bailey Dick, Thomas Aiello, Mark D. Szuchman, and Melony Shemberger. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “’Is It Not Possible to Be a Radical and a Christian?’: Dorothy Day’s Evolving Relationship with…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Student essay: Ryan Sudol

24 Feb 202024 Feb 2020

In the fall, 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 journalism history…

Roessner podcast: Jimmy Carter and the Media

17 Feb 20205 Feb 2020

For the 43rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Will Mari spoke with Amber Roessner about her book Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign (LSU…

Shemberger Essay: Education Reporting in the Civil Rights Era

11 Feb 20205 Feb 2020

“Southern Education Report: An Examination of a Magazine’s Contribution to Education News in the Civil Rights Era” (Journalism History, December 2019) sheds light on how one of journalism’s most important…

Prendergast podcast: Covering Conflict and Controversy

4 Feb 20203 Feb 2020

For the 42nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Mark J. Prendergast about his reporting on upheavals across Central America in the 1980s, the landfall…

Student essay: Celia Hammond

In the fall, 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 journalism history…

Lane podcast: Defending Joe McCarthy

20 Jan 202020 Jan 2020

For the 41st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Julie Lane about the passionate following that Joe McCarthy had during his lifetime and the political…

Aiello Essay: Black Foreign Policy Journalism from a Black Domestic Policy Historian

Louis Emanuel Lomax was an ex-con, a former prisoner in Illinois’ Joliet Correctional Center convicted for a confidence scheme selling rented automobiles to used car dealers. He also had uncontested…

Campbell podcast: 1995: The Year the Future Began

For the 40th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with W. Joseph Campbell about the major media events that made 1995 a watershed year, from the…

First Amendment Essay

Davie Essay: A Peace Worth Disturbing

19 Dec 201916 Dec 2019

How Louisiana Forums Redefined Free Speech Americans are a fun-loving people, and a lot of the fun to be had is out in public. Americans travel by public transit to…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

16 Dec 201915 Dec 2019

For the 39th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for a special Christmas episode that tells the story of an…