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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”

Podcast: The Power of Political Cartoons

1 Mar 20211 Mar 2021

The 1884 presidential election may be forgotten today, but its divisiveness provided ample material for political cartoonists. For the 73rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke…

9/11 Essay Series

Smith Essay: News Coverage of 9/11 in Arab-American Affairs

This article seeks to converge two areas of existing scholarship: coverage of 9/11 in the mainstream media and the longstanding tradition of ethnic news outlets in the U.S. Specifically, I…

Journal News…

Journalism History Podcast Announces Best Guest

16 Feb 202116 Feb 2021

Kimberly Voss of the University of Central Florida is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. Voss’s “Episode 59: The History of Food Journalism” is a…

Carroll podcast: The Black Press and the Fight for Racial Justice

15 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

For the 72nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Fred Carroll about the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press…

Walck Essay: Teaching Journalism By and For Women

10 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

In an era when the pinnacle of American womanhood included a doting husband, a house with a white picket fence and the sound of children’s feet pattering about, the Pittsburgh…

Book Reviews…

New Journalism History Book Reviews to Appear on Website

Beginning this month, Journalism History will begin publishing new book reviews exclusively on the Journalism History website (journalism-history.org). History Division members discussed at the AEJMC conference in August how to…

Martin, No Longer Newsworthy

8 Feb 20211 Mar 2021

2021-003 | Download PDF Martin, Christopher R. No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Middle Class. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2019. $27.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Rob Wells, University…

Wells, The Enforcers

2021-002 | Download PDF Wells, Rob. The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, 272 pp., $27.95. Reviewed…

Smith, Freedom of Expression

2 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

2021-001 | Download PDF Smith, Stephen A., comp. Freedom of Expression: Foundational Documents and Historical Arguments. Fayetteville, Ark.: Oxbridge Research Associates, 2018. 704 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith,…

Campbell podcast: Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents

1 Feb 20212 Feb 2021

For the 71st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Brian Campbell about the experiences of African American athletes who played baseball and achieved social status…