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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”

Gregorio, Double Life of Katharine Clark

24 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

2022-10 | Download PDF Gregorio, Katharine. The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks,…

Hunt Podcast: The Revitalization of Cosmopolitan

16 Oct 202215 Oct 2022

For the 112th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Paula Hunt describes the transformation Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown brought to the magazine and the commercial success…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: How a ‘zap’ campaign helped gay people enter the news dialogue

October is LGBT History Month When Mark Segal was young, he rarely opened a newspaper or turned on the TV and encountered depictions of someone like him. “I grew up…

Todd Podcast: Girl Stunt Reporters

3 Oct 20224 Oct 2022

For the 111th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Kim Todd details the daring exploits of women reporters who pioneered a new genre of investigative…

Stephen, Stories That Make History

2022-09 | Download PDF Stephen, Lynn. Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 328 pp. $27.95 (Paperback). Reviewed by Litzy Galarza, University of…

Boomhower Podcast: Diaries of War

19 Sep 202217 Sep 2022

For the 110th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, biographer Ray Boomhower follows the career of war correspondent Richard Tregaskis from Guadalcanal to Korea to Vietnam. Senior…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: The Jewish weekly ‘Jüdische Rundschau’ during the First World War

12 Sep 202211 Sep 2022

In March 1915, the Jüdische Rundschau (Jewish Review) reflected on the role of the German-Jewish press in wartime: It is able to hold the Jewish community together, to inform about…

Broadcast History Series…

Call for Essays: Broadcast Media History

The website for AEJMC History Division's scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays on the history and importance of television over the last 60 years. The impetus for this essay series…

Greene-Blye Podcast: Authentic Representation of Native Americans

5 Sep 20223 Sep 2022

For the 109th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, historian Melissa Greene-Blye discusses the importance of representation of Native Americans in the media of the past…

Marshall, Clash

29 Aug 202227 Aug 2022

2022-08 | Download PDF Marshall, Jon. Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2022, 424 pp., $36.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri…