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Current Issue

Volume 51, No. 4, Winter, 2025. This issue contains an editor’s note from editor Perry Parks on this issue’s theme, Race and the Early 20th Century Press. There are four essays from Edward Timke, Matthew Pressman, Kavitha Rajagopalan and Michael T. Martinez. There are three research articles by Jason McDonald,…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Campbell, Lost in a Gallup

29 Apr 202118 Apr 2021

2021-007 | Download PDF Campbell, W. Joseph. Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, 336 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Michael…

Napoli Podcast: The Founding Mothers of NPR

26 Apr 202117 Apr 2021

For the 77th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Lisa Napoli about how four women – Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts…

9/11 Essay Series

Ahearn Essay: Print’s Long 9/11 Afternoon

22 Apr 202118 Apr 2021

Last call for the newspaper “EXTRA!” edition At newspapers across the country, the decision to print 9/11 extra editions was as sudden as the moment bulletins switched from apparent air…

Karl Podcast: Front Row at the Trump Show

19 Apr 202117 Apr 2021

For this bonus episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman speaks with Jonathan Karl about his book Front Row at the Trump Show. Jonathan Karl is ABC News…

Mellinger & Ferré, Journalism’s Ethical Progression

16 Apr 202116 Apr 2021

2021-006 | Download PDF Mellinger, Gwyneth and John Ferré (Eds.) Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth Century Journey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 259 pp., $95.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Berrin A.…

Podcast: The Unknown Stories of the Titanic

12 Apr 202113 Apr 2021

For the 76th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Teri Finneman, Tim Ziaukas focuses on the crisis communication history of Titanic while historian Ron Rodgers discusses his research,…

Teaching Essay: An Embattled Terrain

5 Apr 202128 Jun 2021

Women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants at the Margins in U.S. Newspaper Stories, 1820-1860 Historian Barbara Welter imagined a Cult of True Womanhood[i] in the 19th Century that idealized…

In the Archives

Wagner Essay: The Right to Lapawòl

31 Mar 20219 Apr 2021

Community Radio Stations in the Archive of Radio Haïti-Inter In July and October 1999, Joseph “Ti Jò” Georges and Sony Estéus, the directors of the Sosyete Animasyon ak Kominikasyon Sosyal…

Cressman Podcast: Nixon’s War on Television

29 Mar 202131 Mar 2021

For the 75th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Dale Cressman about the complex relationship between the Nixon administration and ABC News in the wake…

Ness, Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film

26 Mar 202116 Apr 2021

2021-005 | Download PDF Ness, Richard R. Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, 532 pp., $150.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Chad Painter, University of Dayton (cpainter1@udayton.edu)…