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Volume 47, No. 1, March 2021 The March issue contains articles by Elisabeth Fondren, Dale Cressman, Camille Reyes, George Daniels & Gabriel Tait, and Thomas Terry, Donald Shaw, & Erin Coyle. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “‘The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Walck Essay: Teaching Journalism By and For Women

10 Feb 202111 Feb 2021

In an era when the pinnacle of American womanhood included a doting husband, a house with a white picket fence and the sound of children’s feet pattering about, the Pittsburgh…

Book Reviews…

New Journalism History Book Reviews to Appear on Website

Beginning this month, Journalism History will begin publishing new book reviews exclusively on the Journalism History website (journalism-history.org). History Division members discussed at the AEJMC conference in August how to…

Martin, No Longer Newsworthy

8 Feb 202116 Apr 2021

2021-003 | Download PDF Martin, Christopher R. No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Middle Class. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2019. $27.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Rob Wells, University…

Wells, The Enforcers

2021-002 | Download PDF Wells, Rob. The Enforcers: How Little-Known Trade Reporters Exposed the Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, 272 pp., $27.95. Reviewed…

Smith, Freedom of Expression

2 Feb 20218 Feb 2021

2021-001 | Download PDF Smith, Stephen A., comp. Freedom of Expression: Foundational Documents and Historical Arguments. Fayetteville, Ark.: Oxbridge Research Associates, 2018. 704 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith,…

Campbell podcast: Black Ballplayers as Foreign Correspondents

1 Feb 20212 Feb 2021

For the 71st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke to Brian Campbell about the experiences of African American athletes who played baseball and achieved social status…

9/11 Essay Series

Series Intro: Covering 9/11, 20 Years Later

On Sept. 11, 2001, four hijacked airplanes crashed into New York's Twin Towers, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field. These coordinated terrorist attacks directly resulted in nearly…

Wells podcast: Enforcement Journalism and the Keating Five Scandal

18 Jan 202118 Jan 2021

For the 70th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Rob Wells about how a trade publication uncovered a scandal involving five U.S. senators in the…

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…

Journal News…

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…