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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”

Lamonica Podcast: Civil War Press Suppression in the American West

4 Oct 20211 Oct 2021

For the 89th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Mary Lamonica describes the editorial battles waged among American West newspaper editors during the Civil War and…

Myers, Public Relations History

2021-016 | Download PDF Myers, Cayce. Public Relations History: Theory, Practice, and Profession. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, pp. 184, $44.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri State…

Research Essay: The May Fourth Incident in the North China Herald

27 Sep 202127 Sep 2021

The year 2019 marked the hundredth anniversary of the May Fourth Incident in Beijing. On 4 May 1919, outraged by news about the Paris Peace Conference denying restoration of Chinese…

Giles Podcast: Covering the Kent State Shootings

20 Sep 202117 Sep 2021

For the 88th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, author Bob Giles discusses his book, When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later, and…

Orozco, Agent of Change

13 Sep 202111 Sep 2021

2021-015 | Download PDF Orozco, Cynthia E. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020, 272 pp., $40…

9/11 Essay Series

Burns Essay: Mediated memories of 9/11

10 Sep 20219 Sep 2024

Lisa Burns “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?” Most of us who are old enough to remember the events of September 11, 2001, can…

DeMentri Podcast: Reporting from Ground Zero

6 Sep 20211 Sep 2021

For the 87th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, former television reporter Vince DeMentri recalls reporting live from the wreckage of the World Trade Center on…

Cooper, Doing the Right Thing

19 Aug 202111 Aug 2021

2021-014 | Download PDF Cooper, Tom. Doing the Right Thing: Twelve Portraits in Moral Courage. UK: Abramis Academic Publishing, 2020, 300 pp., $24.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Willie R. Tubbs, University…

Hamilton Podcast: Woodrow Wilson’s Ministry of Propaganda

16 Aug 202111 Aug 2021

For the 86th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to John Maxwell Hamilton about the propaganda spread during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson’s Committee…

9/11 Essay Series

Reed Essay: ‘You’re not patriotic if you’re not wearing a mask’

9 Aug 20217 Aug 2021

National news media reframes 9/11 survivors as immunosuppressed during COVID-19 pandemic When the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan fell on Sept. 11, 2001, “billions of razor-sharp shards of…