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Volume 48, No. 4, Winter 2022 The Winter issue contains articles by Paul Myers & Lisa Mullikin Parcell, Suzannah Evans Comfort & Lauren Ulrich, Lorraine Ahearn & Barbara Friedman, and Joseph Jones & Earnest Perry. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Beauty and the…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Profits and the ‘public interest’: The impact of deregulation and local TV news

20 Mar 202314 Mar 2023

The Decline of Local News Engagement with the Public Journalism in the United States has experienced a tremendous erosion in trust over the past 50 years (Gallup, n.d.). However, local…

Holzer Podcast: FDR

13 Mar 20238 Mar 2023

For the 90th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt becoming president, author Harold Holzer discusses FDR's relationship with the press and public relations, as well as his mastery of mass communication, in…

Cassidy, Sweeney, NBC Goes to War

6 Mar 20236 Mar 2023

2023-3 | Download PDF James Cassidy, Edited by Michael S. Sweeney, NBC Goes to War: The Diary of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge (New York: Fordham…

Tucher Podcast: The Colonial Press

27 Feb 202317 Feb 2023

For the 121st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Andie Tucher discusses the early history of U.S. newspapers and her new book, Not Exactly Lying:…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Trumpism and Television

21 Feb 202317 Feb 2023

Television facilitates a politics of feeling from Nixon to trump “Trumpism” is, among other things, a feeling, an emotion, a worldview, rather than a coherent set of policy positions, and…

Rhodes Podcast: Framing the Black Panthers

14 Feb 20232 Feb 2023

For the 120th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Jane Rhodes discusses her book, Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power…

Underwood, Literary Journalism in British and American Prose

7 Feb 20232 Feb 2023

2023-2 | Download PDF Underwood, Doug. Literary Journalism in British and American Prose: An Historical Overview. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019, 286 pp., $55 (paperback). Reviewed by Erika J.…

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Marshall to Receive Best Podcast Guest Award

Jon Marshall of Northwestern University is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. He is a guest in “Episode 105: Watergate and the Press,” a top-rated episode…

Article Award…

Journalism History Announces Reilly Award Winner

Betto van Waarden is the winner of the 2023 Tom Reilly Award. His article, “The Many Faces of Performative Politics: Satires of Statesman Bernhard von Bülow in Wilhelmine Germany,” was…

Cooper Podcast: Empowering Black Women in the Chicago Defender

30 Jan 20234 Jan 2023

For the 119th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Caryl Cooper shares the career of Rebecca Stiles Taylor, who used her column at the Chicago Defender to champion…