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Volume 47, No. 1, March 2021 The March issue contains articles by Elisabeth Fondren, Dale Cressman, Camille Reyes, George Daniels & Gabriel Tait, and Thomas Terry, Donald Shaw, & Erin Coyle. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “‘The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Karl Podcast: Front Row at the Trump Show

19 Apr 202117 Apr 2021

For this bonus episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman speaks with Jonathan Karl about his book Front Row at the Trump Show. Jonathan Karl is ABC News…

Mellinger & Ferré, Journalism’s Ethical Progression

16 Apr 202116 Apr 2021

2021-006 | Download PDF Mellinger, Gwyneth and John Ferré (Eds.) Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth Century Journey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 259 pp., $95.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Berrin A.…

Podcast: The Unknown Stories of the Titanic

12 Apr 202113 Apr 2021

For the 76th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Tim Ziaukas focuses on the crisis communication history of Titanic while historian Ron Rodgers discusses his research,…

Teaching Essay: An Embattled Terrain

5 Apr 20215 Apr 2021

Women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants at the Margins in U.S. Newspaper Stories, 1820-1860 Historian Barbara Welter imagined a Cult of True Womanhood[i] in the 19th Century that idealized…

In the Archives

Wagner Essay: The Right to Lapawòl

31 Mar 20219 Apr 2021

Community Radio Stations in the Archive of Radio Haïti-Inter In July and October 1999, Joseph “Ti Jò” Georges and Sony Estéus, the directors of the Sosyete Animasyon ak Kominikasyon Sosyal…

Cressman Podcast: Nixon’s War on Television

29 Mar 202131 Mar 2021

For the 75th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Dale Cressman about the complex relationship between the Nixon administration and ABC News in the wake…

Ness, Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film

26 Mar 202116 Apr 2021

2021-005 | Download PDF Ness, Richard R. Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, 532 pp., $150.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Chad Painter, University of Dayton (cpainter1@udayton.edu)…

Student Podcast Contest: Sports Talk Radio in Memphis

25 Mar 202124 Mar 2021

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In this honorable mention episode, Louisiana State University student Murry Goldberg spoke to four local radio hosts…

Student Podcast Contest: Celebrity Journalism and Social Consciousness

25 Mar 202124 Mar 2021

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In this honorable mention episode, Duquesne University student Marcela Mack talks to author Carrie Teresa about her…

Student Podcast Contest: Prior Restraint and the Pentagon Papers

25 Mar 202124 Mar 2021

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In this honorable mention episode, William Paterson University student Sean Mauro discusses the concept of prior restraint…