Journalism History journal – Page 33

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”

Mallouli essay: Quantitative frame analysis for media & communication students

3 Jun 20193 Jun 2019

"The Framing of North Africans by U.S. Print Media during Operation Torch in World War II" (Sofiene Mallouli and Michael S. Sweeney, Journalism History, March 2019) is an attempt to…

Shepperd podcast: The Grassroots Rise of Public Broadcasting

28 May 20198 May 2019

For the 24th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Will Mari spoke with Josh Shepperd about his work on the Radio Preservation Task Force and his forthcoming book about…

First Amendment Essay

Free Expression and Fake News

Does the "Marketplace of Ideas" Metaphor Still Apply? Social media networks have come under fire for their role in recent election controversies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated during Congressional…

Garza podcast: They Came to Toil

14 May 20198 May 2019

For the 23rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Melita Garza about newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants during the Great Depression years and the…

Zboray and Zboray essay: Studying disability history through 19th-century newspapers

6 May 20196 May 2019

What did newspapers have to say about physical disability in Civil War-era America? What words did they use to represent the multitudes of soldiers who had lost their limbs in…

Peterson podcast: The Bare-Knuckle Boxing Championship of 1860

30 Apr 201926 Apr 2019

For the 22nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Scott Peterson about the colorful news coverage of an 1860 match between John C. Heenan and…

First Amendment Essay

Jehovah’s Witnesses and the First Amendment

23 Apr 201924 Apr 2019

How One Religious Group Shaped Free Speech Jurisprudence in the Early 20th Century “Seldom, if ever, in the past, has one individual or group been able to shape the course,…

Hill podcast: Hidden Figures in Public Relations History

16 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

For the 21st episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with Denise Hill about the hidden figures in public relations history, the African-American practitioners long overshadowed by…

First Amendment Essay

The Internet’s Enduring Free Speech Legacy

11 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which found the communications decency provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to…

Hirshon podcast: We Want Fish Sticks

9 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

For the 20th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Will Mari spoke with Nick Hirshon about the worst branding campaign in sports history as described in his new book,…