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Volume 48, No. 1, March 2022 The March issue contains articles by Carolina Velloso, Victoria M. Grieve, Anna Popkova, Betto van Waarden, and Mackenzie Weinger. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “A True Newspaperwoman: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller,” Carolina Velloso (podcast)This article…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: The American Penal Press Contest and the Cultivation of Prison Journalism, 1965-1991

21 Mar 202219 Mar 2022

When Charles C. Clayton, journalism professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIU), started making the hour-long drive to Menard State Prison in 1956, his plan was to support the facility’s…

File Podcast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom

For the 100th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Patrick File discusses his book, Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel and Press Freedom in…

Aiello, The Life & Times of Louis Lomax

2022-03 | Download PDF Aiello, Thomas. The Life & Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 264 pp., $26.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Pete…

Montalbano Essay: Understanding COVID-19 Via the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic

7 Mar 20225 Mar 2022

We all have different recollections of how we reacted to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some of us, we may not have entirely processed the myriad ways…

Mari Podcast: A Tour of the Midcentury Newsroom

28 Feb 202222 Mar 2022

For the 99th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, author Will Mari gives a tour of the American newsroom as it existed in the mid-20th century,…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: Perpetual Foreigners

21 Feb 202221 Feb 2022

Press Coverage of Japanese Immigration during the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907–1908 across the Pacific The history of Asians in the United States reflects their eternal immigrant status as unassimilable “forever…

Stoner Podcast: Dear Abby, I’m Gay

14 Feb 202213 Feb 2022

For the 98th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Andrew Stoner describes how advice columnists, such as Ann Landers, Dear Abby and Dr. Joyce Brothers,…

Stoner, Dear Abby, I’m Gay

2022-02 | Download PDF Stoner, Andrew. Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexuality in America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, 225 pp., $27.95 (Softcover). Reviewed by Carolina Velloso, University…

Boling Essay: Cultural Significance of a Black Public Affairs Program

7 Feb 20224 Feb 2022

In 1965, WIS-TV in Columbia, SC, hired their first African American employee. A recent college graduate, Isaac Washington was excited for the opportunity, even if it meant he would be…

Haydel Podcast: The Community-Building Bennett Banner

31 Jan 202226 Jan 2022

For the 97th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Sheryl Kennedy Haydel explains how the journalists of the student-run Bennett Banner used their paper to rally their…