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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”

Rodgers Essay: The Social Awakening’s Resonance in a Time of Inflection, Infection and Insurrection

28 Jul 202016 Jul 2020

More than once in my journalism classes, I have heard my students attempt to suppress snickers whenever I use the contemporary epithet “woke” in describing the world view of social-justice…

Cronkite podcast: The Most Trusted Man in America

19 Jul 202013 Jul 2020

For the 54th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Mike Conway and Amanda Morrow to mark the anniversary of the death of legendary CBS Evening…

Student essay: Jesse Norman

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…

Melillo podcast: The Problems with Polls

7 Jul 20206 Jul 2020

For the 53rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Wendy Melillo about how political polls have been used—and misused—and the election prediction mishaps in American…

Roessner Essay: Recovering the Voices of the People

30 Jun 202024 Jan 2022

Answering continued calls for a cultural approach to the study of women’s history, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters…

Rounkles podcast: Court Held at Midnight

23 Jun 20209 Jun 2020

For the 52nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke to Claire Rounkles about newspaper complicity in the 1894 lynching of Roscoe Parker in Ohio. This episode…

Student essay: Henry Voorhees

16 Jun 20209 Jun 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…

Spector podcast: The Father of Public Relations

For the 51st episode of the Journalism History podcast, Shelley Spector describes interviewing opinion-making pioneer Edward Bernays about his landmark campaigns to sell bacon as a breakfast food and cigarettes…

Bonus podcast: Why does journalism history matter?

2 Jun 20201 Jun 2020

To celebrate the first 50 episodes of the Journalism History podcast, we reflect with prior guests on the central mission of our show: Why does journalism history matter? This episode…

Stoner podcast: A Pioneer in AIDS Coverage

26 May 202025 May 2020

For the 50th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Andrew Stoner about his new book on the complex life of Randy Shilts, a journalist who…