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Volume 45, No. 1, March 2019 The March issue contains articles by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Christopher W. Shaw, Scott D. Peterson, Sofiene Malloui and Michael S. Sweeney, and Allan Boughey, as well as an essay by Allie White on an archival collection of interest to mass…Continue reading “Current Issue”

First Amendment Essay

Free Expression and Fake News

Does the "Marketplace of Ideas" Metaphor Still Apply? Social media networks have come under fire for their role in recent election controversies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated during Congressional…

Garza podcast: They Came to Toil

14 May 20198 May 2019

For the 23rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Melita Garza about newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants during the Great Depression years and the…

Zboray and Zboray essay: Studying disability history through 19th-century newspapers

6 May 20196 May 2019

What did newspapers have to say about physical disability in Civil War-era America? What words did they use to represent the multitudes of soldiers who had lost their limbs in…

Peterson podcast: The Bare-Knuckle Boxing Championship of 1860

30 Apr 201926 Apr 2019

For the 22nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Scott Peterson about the colorful news coverage of an 1860 match between John C. Heenan and…

First Amendment Essay

Jehovah’s Witnesses and the First Amendment

23 Apr 201924 Apr 2019

How One Religious Group Shaped Free Speech Jurisprudence in the Early 20th Century “Seldom, if ever, in the past, has one individual or group been able to shape the course,…

Hill podcast: Hidden Figures in Public Relations History

16 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

For the 21st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Denise Hill about the hidden figures in public relations history, the African-American practitioners long overshadowed by…

First Amendment Essay

The Internet’s Enduring Free Speech Legacy

11 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which found the communications decency provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to…

Hirshon podcast: We Want Fish Sticks

9 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

For the 20th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Will Mari spoke with Nick Hirshon about the worst branding campaign in sports history as described in his new book,…

Sirrah podcast: Native Advertising from Franklin to Facebook

For the 19th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Ava Sirrah about native advertisements in American news media, from Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette to Mark…

First Amendment Essay

“America First and America Only”: German-American Newspapers, Self-Censorship, and Press Freedom in World War I

26 Mar 201915 Mar 2019

“Let us remember that we are Americans first and Americans only,” wrote George Sylvester Viereck, the pro-German publisher and provocateur, on April 11, 1917.[i] Only a few days earlier President…