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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”

Linkof Podcast: Prehistory of the Paparazzi

22 Aug 202216 Aug 2022

For the 108th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Ryan Linkof discusses his research on the Prince of Wales, Wallis Simpson, and the Prehistory of the…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: A Case Study of Woman Citizen

15 Aug 202212 Aug 2022

The Press as a Vehicle for Activism, Identity Formation, and Community This essay explores how women, shut out of the public sphere, utilized print publications to garner support for their…

Jenkins Podcast: Framing Protest and Describing Disability

1 Aug 202227 Jul 2022

For the 107th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, researcher Joy Jenkins describes how the language used in news media to describe people with disabilities has changed…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Leonora Raines and Cecil Dorrian Cover the Great War (1914–1919)

25 Jul 202213 Jul 2022

“Barred from Firing Line, Harried by Censors, Must Even Have Pass to Leave Town” In the spring of 1915, American war correspondent Leonora Raines visited Western front battlefields as the…

Levy, Chick TV

18 Jul 202212 Jul 2022

2022-07 | Download PDF Levy, Yael. Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022, 200 pp., $60 (hardback). Reviewed by Stephanie O’Brien, the University of North…

Teaching Essay: The “Showbiz Politics” of Copyright Reform

11 Jul 20227 Jul 2022

As a Southern governor with presidential ambitions, Jimmy Carter “had treated multimillionaire [Capricorn Records co-founder Phil] Walden like a good ol’ boy—with respect.” So wrote Rolling Stone reporter Art Harris…

Bjork Podcast: Doctors Confront the Turn-of-the-Century Press

4 Jul 202227 Jul 2022

For the 106th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, researcher Ulf Jonas Bjork explains the criticism voiced in medical journals against reporters, advertisers and the newspaper…

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]…

Weinger Essay: The Fenian Dynamite Campaign in the British Press

20 Jun 202222 Jun 2022

Between 1881 and 1885, extreme Irish nationalists waged a campaign of urban terrorism—dubbed the ‘Fenian dynamite campaign’—against targets on the British mainland. Those responsible for these attacks sought to use…

Gamache, Gareth Jones: On Assignment in Nazi Germany

13 Jun 20223 Jun 2022

2022-06 | Download PDF Gamache, Ray. Gareth Jones: On Assignment in Nazi Germany 1933-34. Wales: Welsh Academic Press 2021. pp. 188, $27.31 (paperback). Reviewed by Timothy Roy Gleason, University of…