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Volume 47, No. 1, March 2021 The March issue contains articles by Elisabeth Fondren, Dale Cressman, Camille Reyes, George Daniels & Gabriel Tait, and Thomas Terry, Donald Shaw, & Erin Coyle. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “‘The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Student Podcast Contest: Deporting and Empowering a Communist Journalist

24 Mar 202127 Mar 2021

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In the second-place episode, Wayne State University student Ellen Chamberlain discusses how Communist journalist Claudia Jones pursued…

Student Podcast Contest: Blurred Lines

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In the second-place episode, William Paterson University student Ryley McKiernan investigates the history of copyright law through…

9/11 Essay Series

Myers Essay: The Legal Legacy of 9/11

23 Mar 202121 Mar 2021

Challenges Writing the Legal History of the Recent Past Writing contemporary history presents unique challenges. In the time of the ancient historians, it was thought that there needed to be…

Student Podcast Contest: Drum Publications and Players They Shape

22 Mar 202121 Mar 2021

Journalism History conducted a national student podcast competition during the fall of 2020. In the winning episode, Louisiana State University student Nick Ashton and his guests discuss the history and…

Fondren Podcast: The Great War Through the Lens

15 Mar 202115 Mar 2021

For the 74th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Elisabeth Fondren about World War I photographer Percy Brown, who captured significant photojournalism history during his…

Lumsden, Social Justice Journalism

4 Mar 202116 Apr 2021

2021-004 | Download PDF Lumsden, Linda J. Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement Media from Abolition to #Womensmarch. New York: Peter Lang, 2019, 308 pp., $47.95 (paperback).…

Podcast: The Power of Political Cartoons

1 Mar 202131 Mar 2021

The 1884 presidential election may be forgotten today, but its divisiveness provided ample material for political cartoonists. For the 73rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke…

9/11 Essay Series

Smith Essay: News Coverage of 9/11 in Arab-American Affairs

This article seeks to converge two areas of existing scholarship: coverage of 9/11 in the mainstream media and the longstanding tradition of ethnic news outlets in the U.S. Specifically, I…

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Journalism History Podcast Announces Best Guest

16 Feb 202116 Feb 2021

Kimberly Voss of the University of Central Florida is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. Voss’s “Episode 59: The History of Food Journalism” is a…

Carroll podcast: The Black Press and the Fight for Racial Justice

15 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

For the 72nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Fred Carroll about the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press…