June 2021 – Journalism History journal

Sumpter Essay: The Mutual Life Insurance Scandal

Making Public Opinion My study of the 1905 Armstrong Committee’s investigation of fraudulent practices in the life insurance industry incorporated an interesting debate about what constituted legitimate public relations practices…

Bates, An Aristocracy of Critics

25 Jun 202123 Jun 2021

2021-011 | Download PDF Bates, Stephen. An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, and the Committee that Redefined Freedom of the Press. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, 336 pp., $28.00…

Bates Podcast: The Hutchins Commission

21 Jun 202118 Jun 2021

For the 82nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Stephen Bates about the creation and findings of the Hutchins Commission ahead of the 75th anniversary…

Smith, Mexican Press and Civil Society

2021-010 | Download PDF Smith, Benjamin T. The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,…

Kroeger Podcast: The Plucky Path of Nellie Bly

7 Jun 202125 May 2021

For the 81st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Brooke Kroeger about the daring career of Nellie Bly, the newspaper reporter who feigned insanity to investigate…