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Volume 45, No. 4, December 2019 The December issue contains articles by Bailey Dick, Thomas Aiello, Mark D. Szuchman, and Melony Shemberger. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “’Is It Not Possible to Be a Radical and a Christian?’: Dorothy Day’s Evolving Relationship with…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Pressman podcast: The Press at the Precipice

4 Nov 20194 Nov 2019

For the 36th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Matthew Pressman about the emergence of a risky style of reporting and selling the news in…

Newman Essay: ‘Red Journalism’: Modeling Primary Research with Historical Newspapers

28 Oct 201929 Oct 2019

“‘Red Journalism’: The Allegheny Indians, Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, and the Ethnic Cleansing of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764” (Journalism History, September 2019) started as my term paper. In August 2018 I assigned…

Dick podcast: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

22 Oct 20194 Nov 2019

For the 35th episode of the Journalism History podcast host Nick Hirshon spoke with Bailey Dick about the radical journalism of Dorothy Day during her five decades at the helm…

Cooper podcast: Violence Against the Media

For the 34th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Caryl Cooper about the history of violence against the media from the Progressive Era to the…

First Amendment Essay

Myers Essay: Protecting Advertising and Public Relations

14 Oct 201914 Oct 2019

A Brief History of Commercial Speech Protection and the First Amendment Commercial speech has been an area of speech regulation that was said to be “plucked…out of thin air” by…

Brown podcast: The Media and the Mormon Struggle in Missouri

For the 33rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Vicki Knasel Brown about conflict faced by Mormons trying to settle in Missouri in the 1830s…

First Amendment Essay

The Judicial Legacy of “Or of the Press”

1 Oct 201929 Sep 2019

The First Amendment guarantees five rights. Freedom of the press is one of them, but what is the purpose of this constitutional guarantee? Is the press, as an institution, so…

Ward podcast: The “Vilest” Newspaper Titan

24 Sep 201924 Sep 2019

For the 32nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Ken J. Ward about the libel suit that disreputable Denver Post publisher Frederick G. Bonfils lodged…

Smith Essay: Women Journalists, Hard News, and Newsroom Diversity

16 Sep 201917 Sep 2019

“‘Raising Unshirted Hell’: The Journalism of Norma Fields, State Capitol Correspondent for the Northeast (MS) Daily Journal” (June 2019) examines the career of the first woman to cover state politics…

Socolow podcast: The History of Televised Presidential Debates

10 Sep 20197 Sep 2019

For the 31th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Michael Socolow about the history of televised presidential debates. Michael Socolow is an associate professor in…