Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: The Women’s Pages at American Black Newspapers 27 Jun 20223 Jun 2022 The “most radical advice columnist” of the 1920s could be found in the women’s pages of the prominent Black Chicago Defender newspaper. Few topics were off limits for “Princess Mysteria.”[i]…
Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: Fifty Years of Newsroom Organizing 31 May 202227 May 2022 In March 2022, employees at Condé Nast made headlines when they announced that they were unionizing.[i] The proposed Condé Union will cover over 500 workers at a range of influential…
Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: From History to Multicultural History 2 May 20222 May 2022 Raising the bar for DEI competency in journalism graduates Based on the most recent decennial review of its standards, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)…
Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: Why Black Baseball History Matters 4 Apr 20221 Apr 2022 I imagine that at one time or another all historians have conjured the historical moment we most ardently desire to have witnessed with our own eyes. I have directed in…
Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: The American Penal Press Contest and the Cultivation of Prison Journalism, 1965-1991 21 Mar 202219 Mar 2022 When Charles C. Clayton, journalism professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIU), started making the hour-long drive to Menard State Prison in 1956, his plan was to support the facility’s…
Diversity Essay Series Diversity Essay: Perpetual Foreigners 21 Feb 202221 Feb 2022 Press Coverage of Japanese Immigration during the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907–1908 across the Pacific The history of Asians in the United States reflects their eternal immigrant status as unassimilable “forever…
Diversity Essay Series Series Intro: Diversity in Media 25 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 In July 2021, we placed a call for our fourth essay series, which seeks to place media diversity in historical context. Diversity may encompass a range of backgrounds, perspectives, lifestyles,…
Diversity Essay Series Call for Essays: Diversity in Media History 26 Jul 202126 Jul 2021 The website for AEJMC History Division's scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays placing media diversity in historical context. The impetus for this essay series is the History Division's goal of…