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Current Issue

Volume 49, No. 1, Spring 2023 The Spring issue contains articles by Edgar Simpson; Anna E. Lindner, Michael Fuhlhage, D.T. Frazier, & Keena Neal; Glen Feighery; and Jeanne S. Criswell, Robert H. Gobetz, & Frederick E. May. Interested in reading these articles? Get information on subscribing here. Article Abstracts “Manipulating the Sphere: Mississippi’s…Continue reading “Current Issue”

Prioleau, Diamonds and Deadlines

14 Nov 20228 Nov 2022

2022-11 | Download PDF Prioleau, Betsy. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age. New York, NY: Abrams Press, 2022, 368 pp.,…

Podcast: Extending Advertising to Black Audiences

7 Nov 20222 Nov 2022

For the 113th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Kimberley Mangun and Lisa Parcell explain how advertisers began speaking directly to Black audiences in the 1950s.…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: “Superstitious”— How to Erase People from the National Historical Narrative

31 Oct 202228 Oct 2022

We invoke language and symbols buried in our subconscious to declare who belongs among us as equals and whom we shall discriminate against. In the nineteenth century, one word in…

Gregorio, Double Life of Katharine Clark

24 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

2022-10 | Download PDF Gregorio, Katharine. The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks,…

Hunt Podcast: The Revitalization of Cosmopolitan

16 Oct 202215 Oct 2022

For the 112th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Ken Ward, Paula Hunt describes the transformation Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown brought to the magazine and the commercial success…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: How a ‘zap’ campaign helped gay people enter the news dialogue

October is LGBT History Month When Mark Segal was young, he rarely opened a newspaper or turned on the TV and encountered depictions of someone like him. “I grew up…

Todd Podcast: Girl Stunt Reporters

3 Oct 20224 Oct 2022

For the 111th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, author Kim Todd details the daring exploits of women reporters who pioneered a new genre of investigative…

Stephen, Stories That Make History

2022-09 | Download PDF Stephen, Lynn. Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, 328 pp. $27.95 (Paperback). Reviewed by Litzy Galarza, University of…

Boomhower Podcast: Diaries of War

19 Sep 202217 Sep 2022

For the 110th episode of the Journalism History podcast, hosted by Nick Hirshon, biographer Ray Boomhower follows the career of war correspondent Richard Tregaskis from Guadalcanal to Korea to Vietnam. Senior…

Diversity Essay Series

Diversity Essay: The Jewish weekly ‘Jüdische Rundschau’ during the First World War

12 Sep 202211 Sep 2022

In March 1915, the Jüdische Rundschau (Jewish Review) reflected on the role of the German-Jewish press in wartime: It is able to hold the Jewish community together, to inform about…