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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”

Jackson Podcast: Making Jesse James a Folk Hero

2 Aug 202128 Jul 2021

For the 85th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Cathy Jackson about the outsized role that newspapers played in making a folk hero out of…

van Tuyll, O’Brien, & Broersma, Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press

29 Jul 20213 Aug 2021

2021-013 | Download PDF Reddin van Tuyll, Debra, Mark O'Brien, and Marcel Broersma, eds. Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press, 1784-1963. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2021, 448…

Diversity Essay Series

Call for Essays: Diversity in Media History

26 Jul 202126 Jul 2021

The website for AEJMC History Division's scholarly journal Journalism History seeks essays placing media diversity in historical context. The impetus for this essay series is the History Division's goal of…

9/11 Essay Series

Mascaro Essay: The Rapturous Embrace of Violence

26 Jul 202115 Jul 2021

FRONTLINE’s Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero Asks, “Where Was God on 9/11?” The FRONTLINE (PBS) documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero is a gripping report on 9/11 and…

Hargrave Podcast: Life Magazine’s College Girl

19 Jul 202124 Jan 2022

For the 84th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Lindsay Hargrave about the history of Life magazine and how college-aged women were portrayed in the…

Research Essay: History as Breaking News

12 Jul 202124 Aug 2021

Writing about white supremacy during the summer of the George Floyd protests We must confess that our article in this issue of Journalism History was not born out of some…

Washburn & Lamb, Sports Journalism

2021-012 | Download PDF Washburn, Patrick S., and Chris Lamb. Sports Journalism: A History of Fame, Glory, and Technology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 288 pp. $30.00 paperback. Reviewed…

Linford Podcast: America’s “Tory” Printer

4 Jul 202123 Aug 2023

For the 83rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Autumn Linford about the real story of James Rivington, the most infamous printer of the American…

Sumpter Essay: The Mutual Life Insurance Scandal

Making Public Opinion My study of the 1905 Armstrong Committee’s investigation of fraudulent practices in the life insurance industry incorporated an interesting debate about what constituted legitimate public relations practices…

Bates, An Aristocracy of Critics

25 Jun 202123 Jun 2021

2021-011 | Download PDF Bates, Stephen. An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, and the Committee that Redefined Freedom of the Press. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, 336 pp., $28.00…