Journalism History, the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States, is celebrating fifty years of continuous publication. Throughout 2024, articles from the journal’s run will be featured through open access.
Open access features begin in January with Maurine Beasley’s 1974 Volume 1, Issue 4, exploration of women in journalism: Pens and Petticoats: Early Women Washington Correspondents. Beasley is noted as one of Journalism History‘s most published authors.
Journalism History launched as an independent publication in the spring of 1974 thanks to the vision of Tom Reilly, a professor at California State University, Northridge. In 2012, the late Michael S. Sweeney, then editor, facilitated the journal’s adoption as the official academic journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) History Division.
Journalism History welcomes content about traditional journalism as well research with historical angles on visual communication, public relations, advertising, scholastic journalism, media diversity, sports media, the business of journalism, media technology, oral history, media law and ethics, and documentaries. The journal also encourages cross-disciplinary and global collaboration so that the content of the journal increasingly reflects media history outside of U.S. borders and across disciplines.
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