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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”

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: Journalism Ethics and a rationale for communication truth telling in a virtual age.

17 Jul 20259 Oct 2025

Journalism Ethics and a Rationale for Communication Truth Telling in a Virtual Age Stephen banning Professor of communication, bradley university As the Digital Revolution breaks new ground in communication, the…

Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.

5 Jul 20255 Jul 2025

2025-7| Download PDF Mellinger, Gwyneth. Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024, 288 pp., $32.95 (paperback).…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: The Ephemerality of News

The Ephemerality of News jason Lee Guthrie Associate Professor, Clayton State University Since the invention of the printing press, the advent of each successive news medium from print to broadcast…

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet

2025-6| Download PDF Dame-Griff, Avery. The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2023, 272 pp., $32.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781479818310. Reviewed by Larissa Little,…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series about to start

From Essay Coordinator, Josie Vine, RMIT University, Melbourne. Our 2025 Essay Series on the construction of Journalism Culture is about to kick-off. Each month from June until the end of…

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter.

2025-5| Download PDF McElroy, Jack. Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2024, 296…

A History of Disinformation in the U.S.

2025-4| Download PDF Hayden, Joseph, R. A History of Disinformation in the U.S., New York, NY: Routledge, 2024, 348 pp., $52.99 (paperback). ISBN 9781032330518 Reviewed by Paula Hunt, Independent scholar…

Assault on the Media: The Nixon Years

5 Mar 20255 Mar 2025

2025-3| Download PDF Porter, William E. & Mascaro, Thomas A. Assault on the Media: The Nixon Years. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024, 660 pp., $49.95 (paperback). ISBN:…

The case of Lizzie Borden and other writings

11 Feb 202520 Apr 2025

2025-1| Download PDF Jordan, Elizabeth. Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan (Eds.) The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2024,…

Call for Submissions…

Journalism History – Call for Abstracts

8 Feb 20259 Feb 2025

Special issue on Media Literacy, Mis/Disinformation Research, and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis To be guest edited by Anya Schiffrin, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs & Efrat…