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Volume 48, No. 1, March 2022 The March issue contains articles by Carolina Velloso, Victoria M. Grieve, Anna Popkova, Betto van Waarden, and Mackenzie Weinger. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “A True Newspaperwoman: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller,” Carolina Velloso (podcast)This article…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Grieve Essay: A Woman Journalist on the Labor Beat

23 May 202223 May 2022

Agitate, Educate, Mobilize, and Confront “Advocacy Journalism, Labor Feminism, and the Timber Worker, 1936-1940” (Journalism History, March 2022) analyzes labor journalist Julia Bertram’s combination of union activism and advocacy journalism…

Condon, The Life of Bill Baggs

2022-05 | Download PDF Condon, Amy Paige. A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020, 30 pp.,…

Thornton Podcast: The Moon Hoax

For the 104th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Brian Thornton discusses one of the first and most bizarre newspaper frauds in the United States: the…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: From History to Multicultural History

2 May 20222 May 2022

Raising the bar for DEI competency in journalism graduates Based on the most recent decennial review of its standards, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)…

Ness Podcast: Journalists on Film

25 Apr 202227 Apr 2022

For the 103rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Richard Ness reviews Hollywood’s diverse depictions of journalists over the years, from crusading reporters in All the…

Ellingwood, First to Fall

2022-04 | Download PDF Ken Ellingwood, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021), 400 pp.,…

Pribanic-Smith Podcast: Defining the Partisan Press Era

11 Apr 202210 Apr 2022

For the 102nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, historian Erika Pribanic-Smith uses the hotly contested 1844 presidential election to explain the partisan press era and…

Article Award…

Fondren Receives 2022 Sweeney Award

5 Apr 20225 Apr 2022

Elisabeth Fondren, an assistant professor of journalism in the Division of Mass Communication at St. John’s University, has won the 2022 Michael S. Sweeney Award for her article, “The Mirror…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Why Black Baseball History Matters

4 Apr 20221 Apr 2022

I imagine that at one time or another all historians have conjured the historical moment we most ardently desire to have witnessed with our own eyes. I have directed in…

Popkova Podcast: The Immigrant Press and the First Red Scare

28 Mar 202223 Mar 2022

For the 101st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, researcher Anna Popkova describes the importance of the immigrant press in the early 1900s to help build and…