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Volume 45, No. 1, March 2019 The March issue contains articles by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Christopher W. Shaw, Scott D. Peterson, Sofiene Malloui and Michael S. Sweeney, and Allan Boughey, as well as an essay by Allie White on an archival collection of interest to mass…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Feldstein podcast: Wars on the Press by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump

19 Mar 201915 Mar 2019

For the 18th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Mark Feldstein about contentious relationships between U.S. presidents and the American press. Feldstein is a broadcast…

First Amendment Essay

Exploring Legal Challenges to Transparency in the First Amendment’s ‘Right-to-Know’

12 Mar 201917 Mar 2019

The First Amendment provides U.S. citizens the right to receive information and ideas through the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Throughout history, this important legal principle appears…

Coward podcast: Press Portrayals of Native Americans

For the 17th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with John Coward about problematic portrayals of Native Americans in the press throughout history and how native…

Yotova essay: Teaching George Foster, literary journalist and muckraker

26 Feb 201920 Feb 2019

"Antebellum Urban Reporting as Literary Journalism and Muckraking: George G. Foster’s City Sketches in the New York Press" points to the historical developments and significance of alternative, or non-mainstream, forms…

Sloan podcast: The Man Behind “The Media in America”

19 Feb 20191 Feb 2019

For the 16th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Wm. David Sloan, the prolific author of almost 50 books on the news media and editor…

First Amendment Essay

Never Forget Herndon v. Lowry (1937)

Despite the enormous odds against him, Angelo Herndon—a black communist who was “every white southerner’s nightmare”[1]—became a free speech hero. After five years of legal persecution and squalid incarceration, he…

Coyle podcast: A “Carnival” Trial and the Free Press

5 Feb 20191 Feb 2019

The featured image above depicts the tomb of Marilyn Sheppard, Sam Sheppard, and their unborn child. (Photo by Tim Evanson, CC-by-SA 2.0) For the 15th episode of the Journalism History…

Glende essay: Researching Riesel and organized labor

29 Jan 201921 Jan 2019

I became interested in Victor Riesel while researching for my dissertation at the University of Wisconsin. I was examining how organized labor was covered by mass circulation newspapers during a…

Farrell podcast: Salem, murder, and the press

22 Jan 201920 Dec 2018

For the 14th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with James Farrell, author of "Pretrial Publicity in 1830 Salem: Daniel Webster, New England News, and the…

First Amendment Essay

First Amendment Essay series intro

15 Jan 201920 May 2019

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…