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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”

Marshall Podcast: Watergate and the Press

6 Jun 20228 Jun 2022

For the 105th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, researcher Jon Marshall explores the role of the press in covering the scandal and the eventual downfall of…

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…

Grieve Essay: A Woman Journalist on the Labor Beat

23 May 202223 May 2022

Agitate, Educate, Mobilize, and Confront “Advocacy Journalism, Labor Feminism, and the Timber Worker, 1936-1940” (Journalism History, March 2022) analyzes labor journalist Julia Bertram’s combination of union activism and advocacy journalism…

Condon, The Life of Bill Baggs

2022-05 | Download PDF Condon, Amy Paige. A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020, 30 pp.,…

Thornton Podcast: The Moon Hoax

For the 104th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Brian Thornton discusses one of the first and most bizarre newspaper frauds in the United States: the…

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)…

Ness Podcast: Journalists on Film

25 Apr 202227 Apr 2022

For the 103rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Richard Ness reviews Hollywood’s diverse depictions of journalists over the years, from crusading reporters in All the…

Ellingwood, First to Fall

18 Apr 202229 Jun 2022

2022-04 | Download PDF Ellingwood, Ken. First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (New York: Pegasus Books, 2021), 400 pp.,…

Pribanic-Smith Podcast: Defining the Partisan Press Era

11 Apr 202210 Apr 2022

For the 102nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, historian Erika Pribanic-Smith uses the hotly contested 1844 presidential election to explain the partisan press era and…

Article Award…

Fondren Receives 2022 Sweeney Award

5 Apr 20225 Apr 2022

Elisabeth Fondren, an assistant professor of journalism in the Division of Mass Communication at St. John’s University, has won the 2022 Michael S. Sweeney Award for her article, “The Mirror…