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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”

9/11 Essay Series

Smith Essay: News Coverage of 9/11 in Arab-American Affairs

This article seeks to converge two areas of existing scholarship: coverage of 9/11 in the mainstream media and the longstanding tradition of ethnic news outlets in the U.S. Specifically, I…

Journal News…

Journalism History Podcast Announces Best Guest

16 Feb 202116 Feb 2021

Kimberly Voss of the University of Central Florida is the winner of the Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. Voss’s “Episode 59: The History of Food Journalism” is a…

Carroll podcast: The Black Press and the Fight for Racial Justice

15 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

For the 72nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Fred Carroll about the evolution of African American newspapers after the commercial and alternative Black press…

Walck Essay: Teaching Journalism By and For Women

10 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

In an era when the pinnacle of American womanhood included a doting husband, a house with a white picket fence and the sound of children’s feet pattering about, the Pittsburgh…

Book Reviews…

New Journalism History Book Reviews to Appear on Website

Beginning this month, Journalism History will begin publishing new book reviews exclusively on the Journalism History website (journalism-history.org). History Division members discussed at the AEJMC conference in August how to…

Martin, No Longer Newsworthy

8 Feb 202116 Apr 2021

2021-003 | Download PDF Martin, Christopher R. No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Middle Class. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2019. $27.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Rob Wells, University…

Wells, The Enforcers

2021-002 | Download PDF Wells, Rob. The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, 272 pp., $27.95. Reviewed…

Smith, Freedom of Expression

2 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

2021-001 | Download PDF Smith, Stephen A., comp. Freedom of Expression: Foundational Documents and Historical Arguments. Fayetteville, Ark.: Oxbridge Research Associates, 2018. 704 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith,…

Campbell podcast: Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents

1 Feb 20212 Feb 2021

For the 71st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Brian Campbell about the experiences of African American athletes who played baseball and achieved social status…

Wells podcast: Enforcement Journalism and the Keating Five Scandal

18 Jan 202118 Jan 2021

For the 70th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Rob Wells about how a trade publication uncovered a scandal involving five U.S. senators in the…