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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”

Vultee Podcast: The Style of Islam

For the 117th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Fred Vultee explains how the Associated Press Stylebook's treatment of Islam has changed over time. Fred Vultee is an…

Podcast: Mental Health and Sports Coverage

19 Dec 202214 Dec 2022

For the 116th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Nick Hirshon describes the media's treatment of the mental health of professional athletes. A former New York…

McNeil, Century’s Witness

15 Dec 202213 Dec 2022

2022-12 | Download PDF McNeil, Mary Llewellyn. Century’s Witness: The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll: Buena Vista, VA: Whaler Books, 2022, 388 pp., $22.95 (Paperback). Reviewed by Kaylene Armstrong,…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Comparing Themes in “3/5 of a Man” and “The 1619 Project”

FLOYD McKISSICK’S 3/5 OF A MAN ADDRESSED SIMILAR THEMES OF RACISM AND SLAVERY’S LEGACY A HALF CENTURY BEFORE NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES’ THE 1619 PROJECT In two books published 50 years apart,…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (re-aired)

2 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

For the 115th episode of the Journalism History podcast, as a holiday tradition, we re-air our December 2019 holiday episode. Journalism History podcast hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Beyond the Masthead

28 Nov 202221 Nov 2022

Searching the Archives for Hidden Women Newsroom Leaders Marjory Adams came to the Boston Globe in 1919 and spent the next year as the only woman on the graveyard shift,…

Moore Podcast: The Sunday Paper

21 Nov 202219 Nov 2022

For the 114th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Paul Moore discusses his co-authored book, The Sunday Paper, exploring the history of the Sunday newspaper and…

Prioleau, Diamonds and Deadlines

14 Nov 20228 Nov 2022

2022-11 | Download PDF Prioleau, Betsy. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age. New York, NY: Abrams Press, 2022, 368 pp.,…

Podcast: Extending Advertising to Black Audiences

7 Nov 20222 Nov 2022

For the 113th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Kimberley Mangun and Lisa Parcell explain how advertisers began speaking directly to Black audiences in the 1950s.…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: “Superstitious”— How to Erase People from the National Historical Narrative

31 Oct 202228 Oct 2022

We invoke language and symbols buried in our subconscious to declare who belongs among us as equals and whom we shall discriminate against. In the nineteenth century, one word in…