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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”

Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Call: 2024/ 2025

21 Sep 202416 Dec 2024

The Journalism History journal calls for scholarly essays that explore the development of journalism’s norms and practices – those subtle but significant values and beliefs that define journalism within and…

Segal: Whistle-Stop Politics

19 Sep 20247 Oct 2024

2024-9 | Download PDF Segal, Edward. Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them. Washington, DC: Rock Creek Media, 2024, 342 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 979-8988645009 Reviewed by…

Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60

Essay Series: The Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on Minority Broadcast Ownership

18 Sep 202430 Dec 2024

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, a spate of legislation and executive orders were instituted Robin Sundaramoorthy Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland. When the…

Svirnovskiy Podcast:The Letdown of Liberal Talk Radio

2 Sep 202411 Sep 2024

For the 144th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Journalist Gregory Svirnovskiy discusses Democrats’ unsuccessful attempts after the 1994 midterm elections to counter conservative hosts like Rush Limbaugh with the…

Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60

Diversity Essay Series

Fighting for Equality: The Washington Post’s Metro Seven Wendy Melillo Associate Professor, Journalism, American University When the National Association of Black Journalists admitted a group of young black journalists called…

Hill, Funny Business

12 Aug 20241 Aug 2024

2024-8 | Download PDF Hill, Michael, Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald. New York: Penguin Random House, 2022, 280pp., $28 (hardcover) ISBN: 9780593229514 Reviewed by…

Ward Podcast: Last Paper Standing

5 Aug 202411 Sep 2024

For the 143rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, Author Ken Ward discusses his new book, which examines a century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Ken…

Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60

Essay Series: A Turbulent Week in April 1968

17 Jul 202416 Jul 2024

How a Major Civil Rights Law Came to Pass in the Aftermath of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. A record 120 million Americans watched television coverage of Martin…

Smith, Birddogs and Tough Old Broads

8 Jul 202427 Jun 2024

2024-7 | Download PDF Smith, Pete. Birddogs and Tough Old Broads: Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023, 416 pp., $125.00…

Liseblad Podcast: The Peopleization of TV News

1 Jul 202427 Jun 2024

For the 142nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, Researcher Madeline Liseblad discusses the early days of television in the U.S. and how the format for local TV news that…