From Essay Coordinator, Josie Vine, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Our 2025 Essay Series on the construction of Journalism Culture is about to kick-off.
Each month from June until the end of the year, journalism-history.org will publish an essay from our list of Honourable Mentions in our 2024/ 2025 Essay Competition.
A panel of judges from across the globe assessed the 20 submitted essay proposals, responding to the this year’s theme: The cultural construction of journalism’s norms and practices within and across national and cultural contexts.
Our first four will be:
June: The Ephemerality of News (Jason Lee Guthrie, Clayton State University).
July: Journalism Ethics and a Rationale for CommunitarianTruth Telling in a Virtual Age (Stephen Banning, Bradley University).
August: News Values Construct Roads for Historical Framing Research (Ronald W. Sitton, Arkansas State University).
September: How Grace Omaboe Defined Feminist Activism Journalism in Ghana to Predict an Activist Journalistic Future (Ivy Fofie, Loyola Marymount University).
Originally the brainchild of Dr. Erika Pribanic-Smith (University of Texas at Arlington), the Journalism History essay competition began in 2018. Journalism History is the official academic journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division. In 2024, Journalism History celebrated its 50th year of continuous publishing, making it the oldest peer-reviewed publication on the subject in the United States.
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