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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”

Mari Essay: Newsroom Work Poetry in Twentieth-Century American Journalism

I suspect that every media historian at some point sees something in their work that makes them remark (to themselves), “huh, wouldn’t that be a fun article?” This happens in…

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College Students Win National Podcast Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2021 Contact: Executive Producer Teri Finneman Six college students representing universities in Louisiana, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania won a national student podcast competition emphasizing…

Storlie podcast: Coverage of Detroit’s 12th Street Riot

For the 69th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Brandon Storlie about problematic news coverage of the July 1967 riot in Detroit, one of the…

Holiday podcast: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (re-aired)

14 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

For the 68th episode of the Journalism History podcast, we re-air our December 2019 holiday episode. Journalism History podcast hosts Teri Finneman, Nick Hirshon, and Will Mari come together for…

Student essay: Terrell Henderson

8 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…

Burns podcast: Media Relations and First Ladies

1 Dec 202027 Nov 2020

For the 67th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Lisa Burns about her new book, Media Relations & The Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy…

Student essay: Anna Ullmann

24 Nov 202020 Nov 2020

In the fall of 2019, Journalism History conducted an undergraduate student essay contest. Students answered the question that our podcast hosts ask at the end of every episode: Why does…

Newspaper Titans podcast, part II: William Randolph Hearst

17 Nov 202017 Nov 2020

For the 66th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Chris Daly and Mary Levkoff in the second of two episodes on the newspaper titans who…

Newspaper Titans podcast, part I: Joseph Pulitzer

17 Nov 202017 Nov 2020

For the 65th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Chris Daly and Jody Sowell in the first of two episodes on the newspaper titans who…

Brown Essay: Researching the GULAG

10 Nov 20205 Nov 2020

In 2012 the University of Wyoming and al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Kazakhstan signed a cooperation agreement that has lasted to the present. One outcome was an opportunity to…