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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”

Boling Essay: Cultural Significance of a Black Public Affairs Program

7 Feb 20224 Feb 2022

In 1965, WIS-TV in Columbia, SC, hired their first African American employee. A recent college graduate, Isaac Washington was excited for the opportunity, even if it meant he would be…

Haydel Podcast: The Community-Building Bennett Banner

31 Jan 202226 Jan 2022

For the 97th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Sheryl Kennedy Haydel explains how the journalists of the student-run Bennett Banner used their paper to rally their…

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Journalism History Announces Best Podcast Guest

Tim Ziaukas of the University of Pittsburgh is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. He is a guest in “Episode 76: The Unknown Stories of…

Diversity Essay Series

Series Intro: Diversity in Media

25 Jan 202226 Jan 2022

In July 2021, we placed a call for our fourth essay series, which seeks to place media diversity in historical context. Diversity may encompass a range of backgrounds, perspectives, lifestyles,…

Lucht Podcast: Newspaper Coverage of Women in Politics

17 Jan 202214 Jan 2022

For the 96th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Tracy Lucht analyzes how five trailblazing women in politics of different races, ethnicities and regions were written…

Kirkpatrick, Lady Editor

10 Jan 20229 Jan 2022

2022-01 | Download PDF Kirkpatrick, Melanie. Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman. New York: Encounter Books, 2021. 323 pp., $29.99 (hardback). Reviewed by…

Journalism History Recognizes First Tom Reilly Award Winner

7 Jan 20228 Jan 2022

Journalism History is pleased to announce the creation of the Tom Reilly Award to recognize excellence in journalism history research. The Publications Committee voted to initiate the award to honor…

McCune Podcast: The First Presidential Press Secretary

For the 95th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, Meghan Menard McCune reviews the career of Ray Stannard Baker, the chief spokesman for President Woodrow Wilson…

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory

15 Dec 202116 Dec 2021

2021-019 | Download PDF Thompson, Ethan, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Lucas Hatlen, eds. Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019, 256 pp. $34.95…

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

13 Dec 20217 Dec 2021

For the 94th episode of the Journalism History podcast, we re-air our December 2019 holiday episode. Journalism History podcast hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for…