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Volume 46, No. 2, June 2020 The June issue contains articles by Amber Roessner, Wendy Melillo, Ronald Rodgers, and Stephen Banning, as well as an essay on archival collections by Sandra Roff. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Edmondson podcast: Intimidation Through Libel Law

6 Aug 20205 Aug 2020

For the 56th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Aimee Edmondson about how opponents of the Civil Rights movement weaponized libel law for decades to…

Heckman podcast: The Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party

3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020

For the 55th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Meg Heckman about her new book "Political Godmother," which discusses newspaper publisher Nackey Scripps Loeb, one…

9/11 Essay Series

Call for Essays: Covering 9/11, 20 Years Later

30 Jul 202030 Jul 2020

The website for the scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays placing concepts related to 9/11 coverage in historical context. One installment in the 9/11 essay series will be posted on…

Rodgers Essay: The Social Awakening’s Resonance in a Time of Inflection, Infection and Insurrection

28 Jul 202016 Jul 2020

More than once in my journalism classes, I have heard my students attempt to suppress snickers whenever I use the contemporary epithet “woke” in describing the world view of social-justice…

Cronkite podcast: The Most Trusted Man in America

19 Jul 202013 Jul 2020

For the 54th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Mike Conway and Amanda Morrow to mark the anniversary of the death of legendary CBS Evening…

Student essay: Jesse Norman

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…

Melillo podcast: The Problems with Polls

7 Jul 20206 Jul 2020

For the 53rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Wendy Melillo about how political polls have been used—and misused—and the election prediction mishaps in American…

Roessner Essay: Recovering the “Voices of the People”

30 Jun 202025 Jun 2020

Answering continued calls for a cultural approach to the study of women’s history, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters…

Rounkles podcast: Court Held at Midnight

23 Jun 20209 Jun 2020

For the 52nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Claire Rounkles about newspaper complicity in the 1894 lynching of Roscoe Parker in Ohio. This episode…

Student essay: Henry Voorhees

16 Jun 20209 Jun 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…