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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”

Shott Essay: Becoming an Historian of the Black and Irish Press

10 Mar 202011 Mar 2020

When I enrolled in graduate school in U.S. history at the age of forty-one, I already knew I liked newspapers—I had worked for more than fifteen years as a writer…

Fuhlhage podcast: Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets

3 Mar 202028 Feb 2020

For the 44th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Michael Fuhlhage about the undercover tactics of Northern reporters working in the South and the role…

Student essay: Ryan Sudol

24 Feb 202024 Feb 2020

In the fall, 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 journalism history…

Roessner podcast: Jimmy Carter and the Media

17 Feb 20205 Feb 2020

For the 43rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Will Mari spoke with Amber Roessner about her book Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign (LSU…

Shemberger Essay: Education Reporting in the Civil Rights Era

11 Feb 20205 Feb 2020

“Southern Education Report: An Examination of a Magazine’s Contribution to Education News in the Civil Rights Era” (Journalism History, December 2019) sheds light on how one of journalism’s most important…

Prendergast podcast: Covering Conflict and Controversy

4 Feb 20203 Feb 2020

For the 42nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Mark J. Prendergast about his reporting on upheavals across Central America in the 1980s, the landfall…

Student essay: Celia Hammond

In the fall, 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 journalism history…

Lane podcast: Defending Joe McCarthy

20 Jan 202020 Jan 2020

For the 41st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Julie Lane about the passionate following that Joe McCarthy had during his lifetime and the political…

Aiello Essay: Black Foreign Policy Journalism from a Black Domestic Policy Historian

Louis Emanuel Lomax was an ex-con, a former prisoner in Illinois’ Joliet Correctional Center convicted for a confidence scheme selling rented automobiles to used car dealers. He also had uncontested…

Campbell podcast: 1995: The Year the Future Began

For the 40th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with W. Joseph Campbell about the major media events that made 1995 a watershed year, from the…