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Current Issue

“Sisters of Charity Administering to Sick and Dying Victims of Yellow Fever,” sketch from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Sept. 20, 1879 Volume 47, No. 4, Dec. 2021 The December issue contains articles by Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Kathryn Montalbano, Tracy Lucht & Chelsea Davis, and Kelli Boling. Interested in reading these…Continue reading “Current Issue”

9/11 Essay Series

Wilson Essay: Scholastic media document 9/11 from student perspective

8 Nov 20218 Nov 2021

It wasn’t that long ago. I was teaching a workshop for high school journalism students somewhere around Texas. As I do with so many workshops, I asked the students some…

Allen Podcast: Ratings Powerhouses Univision and Telemundo

1 Nov 202129 Oct 2021

For the 91st episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Craig Allen describes how Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo became ratings powerhouses by programming a…

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…