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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”

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,…

Sirrah podcast: Native Advertising from Franklin to Facebook

For the 19th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Ava Sirrah about native advertisements in American news media, from Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette to Mark…

First Amendment Essay

America First and America Only: German-American Newspapers, Self-Censorship, and Press Freedom in World War I

26 Mar 20193 Oct 2022

“Let us remember that we are Americans first and Americans only,” wrote George Sylvester Viereck, the pro-German publisher and provocateur, on April 11, 1917.[i] Only a few days earlier President…

Feldstein podcast: Wars on the Press by Richard Nixon and Donald Trump

19 Mar 201915 Mar 2019

For the 18th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Mark Feldstein about contentious relationships between U.S. presidents and the American press. Feldstein is a broadcast…

First Amendment Essay

Exploring Legal Challenges to Transparency in the First Amendment’s ‘Right-to-Know’

12 Mar 201917 Mar 2019

The First Amendment provides U.S. citizens the right to receive information and ideas through the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Throughout history, this important legal principle appears…

Coward podcast: Press Portrayals of Native Americans

4 Mar 201917 Aug 2024

For the 17th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Teri Finneman spoke with John Coward about problematic portrayals of Native Americans in the press throughout history and how native…

Yotova essay: Teaching George Foster, literary journalist and muckraker

26 Feb 201920 Feb 2019

"Antebellum Urban Reporting as Literary Journalism and Muckraking: George G. Foster’s City Sketches in the New York Press" points to the historical developments and significance of alternative, or non-mainstream, forms…

Sloan podcast: The Man Behind The Media in America

19 Feb 201924 Jan 2022

For the 16th episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon spoke with Wm. David Sloan, the prolific author of almost 50 books on the news media and editor…

First Amendment Essay

Never Forget Herndon v. Lowry (1937)

Despite the enormous odds against him, Angelo Herndon—a black communist who was “every white southerner’s nightmare”[1]—became a free speech hero. After five years of legal persecution and squalid incarceration, he…

Coyle podcast: A “Carnival” Trial and the Free Press

5 Feb 20191 Feb 2019

The featured image above depicts the tomb of Marilyn Sheppard, Sam Sheppard, and their unborn child. (Photo by Tim Evanson, CC-by-SA 2.0) For the 15th episode of the Journalism History…