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Featured Image: “Dark City,” by Dennis Leung (CC BY 2.0) Volume 47, No. 3, Sept. 2021 The September issue contains articles by Katrina Quinn, Wing Kin Puk, Mary Cronin, and Autumn Linford. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Big Brains and the Solid South:…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Greenwood Podcast: How the Other Half Lives

18 Oct 202115 Oct 2021

For the 90th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Historian Keith Greenwood shares the story of muckraker Jacob Riis and his famous photography examining How the…

9/11 Essay Series

Kilmer Essay: 9/11 – The Steel Crumbled, but the Friendship Narratives Endured

11 Oct 20219 Oct 2021

When everything we thought was solid crumbles, we retrieve from our hearts the stories that calm, heal, and empower us to hope for a better tomorrow. Twenty years ago, in…

Lamonica Podcast: Civil War Press Suppression in the American West

4 Oct 20211 Oct 2021

For the 89th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Mary Lamonica describes the editorial battles waged among American West newspaper editors during the Civil War and…

Myers, Public Relations History

2021-016 | Download PDF Myers, Cayce. Public Relations History: Theory, Practice, and Profession. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, pp. 184, $44.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri State…

Research Essay: The May Fourth Incident in the North China Herald

27 Sep 202127 Sep 2021

The year 2019 marked the hundredth anniversary of the May Fourth Incident in Beijing. On 4 May 1919, outraged by news about the Paris Peace Conference denying restoration of Chinese…

Giles Podcast: Covering the Kent State Shootings

20 Sep 202117 Sep 2021

For the 88th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Bob Giles discusses his book, When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later, and…

Orozco, Agent of Change

13 Sep 202111 Sep 2021

2021-015 | Download PDF Orozco, Cynthia E. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020, 272 pp., $40…

9/11 Essay Series

Burns Essay: Mediated Memories of 9/11

10 Sep 20218 Sep 2021

“Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?” Most of us who are old enough to remember the events of September 11, 2001, can easily answer…

DeMentri Podcast: Reporting from Ground Zero

6 Sep 20211 Sep 2021

For the 87th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, former television reporter Vince DeMentri recalls reporting live from the wreckage of the World Trade Center on…

Cooper, Doing the Right Thing

19 Aug 202111 Aug 2021

2021-014 | Download PDF Cooper, Tom. Doing the Right Thing: Twelve Portraits in Moral Courage. UK: Abramis Academic Publishing, 2020, 300 pp., $24.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Willie R. Tubbs, University…