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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”

Quinn Essay: Reporting on Political Candidates and Elections

Nineteenth-century political candidates rarely campaigned for office. More gentlemanly it would be to stay in the background, to accept the nomination out of duty rather than out of desire. But…

Morton, Sirens of Wartime Radio

25 Oct 202122 Oct 2021

2021-017 | Download PDF Scott A. Morton, The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 202 pp., $95.00 (hardcover). Reviewed…

Greenwood Podcast: How the Other Half Lives

18 Oct 202115 Oct 2021

For the 90th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Historian Keith Greenwood shares the story of muckraker Jacob Riis and his famous photography examining How the…

9/11 Essay Series

Kilmer Essay: 9/11 – The Steel Crumbled, but the Friendship Narratives Endured

11 Oct 20219 Oct 2021

When everything we thought was solid crumbles, we retrieve from our hearts the stories that calm, heal, and empower us to hope for a better tomorrow. Twenty years ago, in…

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…