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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”

Remembering Journalism History Editor Pam Parry

5 Feb 20255 Feb 2025

By Teri Finneman, University of Kansas Pam Parry, the former editor of Journalism History and one of the foremost national experts on Dwight Eisenhower, has died. Parry, a professor at…

The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice.

20 Jan 202522 Jan 2025

2025-1| Download PDF Myers, Cayce. The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, 328 pp. $38.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 978-1-5381-8605-3…

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures…

Timke wins Journalism History’s 2024/25 Essay competition

16 Jan 202516 Jan 2025

Michigan University Assistant Professor Dr. Edward Timke has won the 2024/2025 essay contest sponsored by Journalism History. Journalism History essay winner, Ed Timke. A panel of judges from across the…

Microgrant 2025…

Applications Open for Microgrants to Support Research Related to Diversity and Media History

29 Dec 202430 Dec 2024

Journalism History and American Journalism are offering a combined $4,800 in microgrant funding to encourage research relating to the intersection of diversity and media history. The microgrants are sponsored by the Association for…

Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest

5 Dec 202430 Dec 2024

2024-12| Download PDF Guglielmo, Wayne J. Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023, 308 pp., $36.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-5381-7481-4.Susca, Margot. Hedged:…

Podcast: Why Journalism History Still Matters

2 Dec 20242 Dec 2024

After six years of the Journalism History podcast, the hosts and selected guests reflect on the importance of this podcast and journalism history in this series finale. Transcript…

Predicting the winner: the untold story of election night 1952 and the dawn of computer forecasting.

2024-11| Download PDF Chinoy, Ira. Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2024, 384 pp., $38.95 (Hardcover).…

Olmsted Podcast: The Newspaper Axis

4 Nov 202424 Jul 2024

For the 146th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Kathryn Olmsted discusses her recent book, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, and explains how anti-interventionist attitudes…

Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy.

2024-10| Download PDF Susca, Margot. Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy. University of Illinois Press,2024, 215 pp., $19.63 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0252087561 Reviewed by Edgar…

Chinoy Podcast: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952

7 Oct 202427 Jun 2024

For the 145th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Author Ira Chinoy discusses his latest book, Predicting the Winner, and the beginning of computer forecasting with elections. Ira Chinoy recently…