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Current Issue

Volume 51, No. 4, Winter, 2025. This issue contains an editor’s note from editor Perry Parks on this issue’s theme, Race and the Early 20th Century Press. There are four essays from Edward Timke, Matthew Pressman, Kavitha Rajagopalan and Michael T. Martinez. There are three research articles by Jason McDonald,…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Tucher Podcast: The Colonial Press

27 Feb 202317 Feb 2023

For the 121st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Andie Tucher discusses the early history of U.S. newspapers and her new book, Not Exactly Lying:…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Trumpism and Television

21 Feb 202317 Feb 2023

Television facilitates a politics of feeling from Nixon to trump “Trumpism” is, among other things, a feeling, an emotion, a worldview, rather than a coherent set of policy positions, and…

Rhodes Podcast: Framing the Black Panthers

14 Feb 20232 Feb 2023

For the 120th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Jane Rhodes discusses her book, Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power…

Underwood, Literary Journalism in British and American Prose

7 Feb 20232 Feb 2023

2023-2 | Download PDF Underwood, Doug. Literary Journalism in British and American Prose: An Historical Overview. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019, 286 pp., $55 (paperback). Reviewed by Erika J.…

Journal News…

Marshall to Receive Best Podcast Guest Award

Jon Marshall of Northwestern University is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. He is a guest in “Episode 105: Watergate and the Press,” a top-rated episode…

Article Award…

Journalism History Announces Reilly Award Winner

Betto van Waarden is the winner of the 2023 Tom Reilly Award. His article, “The Many Faces of Performative Politics: Satires of Statesman Bernhard von Bülow in Wilhelmine Germany,” was…

Cooper Podcast: Empowering Black Women in the Chicago Defender

30 Jan 20234 Jan 2023

For the 119th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Caryl Cooper shares the career of Rebecca Stiles Taylor, who used her column at the Chicago Defender to champion…

Broadcast History Series

Series Introduction: Broadcast Media History

26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023

In July 2022, we placed a call for our fifth annual essay series, exploring the history and importance of television over the last 60 years. The impetus for this essay…

Alwood Podcast: PR and the Gay Rights Movement

16 Jan 20234 Jan 2023

For the 118th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Edward Alwood explains how activists in the Gay Rights Movement used public relations practices to reframe media coverage…

Mari, Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet

9 Jan 20234 Jan 2023

2023-1 | Download PDF Mari, Will. Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet: A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990-2010. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022, 120 pp., $56.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by…