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Volume 52, No. 3, Fall, 2026. In this Special Issue we explore Media Literacy, Mis/Disinformation Research, and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. We start with an introduction from guest editor, the Institute of Propaganda Anaylsis’, Anya Schiffrin, where she explores Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Special Issue…Continue reading “Current Issue”

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…

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)…