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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”

Finneman podcast: The Historic Election of Kamala Harris

7 Nov 20207 Nov 2020

For this bonus episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to political historian Teri Finneman about the election of Kamala Harris as the first female vice president…

Sibley podcast: The Media Savvy First Lady

1 Nov 202030 Oct 2020

For the 64th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to author Katie Sibley to mark the 100th anniversary of the Warren Harding election in 1920. First…

Hall podcast: How Newspapering Shaped a President

1 Nov 202030 Oct 2020

For the 63rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to author Sherry Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the Warren Harding election in 1920. Hall…

Student essay: Molly Fiscella

29 Oct 202019 Oct 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…

Incoming Journalism History Team Finalized

Journalism History Editor-Elect Pam Parry has officially formed her new team to take the academic journal into the future. Parry of Southeast Missouri State University will become the seventh editor…

Kilmer podcast: Finding Ghosts in Newspapers

27 Oct 202024 Oct 2020

For this bonus Halloween episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to historian Paulette Kilmer about American newspapers’ fascination with ghosts dating back to the 1800s. Paulette…

Slauter podcast: Copyrighting the News

20 Oct 202019 Oct 2020

For the 62nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to award-winning author Will Slauter about the intertwining histories of journalism and copyright law in the United…

Hirshon Essay: Exploring the Complicated History of Advertising

13 Oct 20206 Oct 2020

Long before Ritz became America’s favorite cracker, there was Uneeda Biscuit. At the turn of the century, Uneeda benefited from one of the first national campaigns to brand a food…

Velloso podcast: A True Newspaperwoman

For the 61st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Carolina Velloso about the career of sports reporter, photojournalist and national magazine writer Sadie Kneller Miller,…

Johnson podcast: Ernie Pyle, WWII and Telling It Like It Is

29 Sep 202021 Sep 2020

For the 60th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Owen Johnson about the journey in journalism taken by war correspondent Ernie Pyle, from growing up…