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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”

Conant, Fierce Ambition

10 Jun 20244 Jun 2024

2024-6 | Download PDF Conant, Jennet. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins. New York New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, 416 pp. $32.50 (hardback). Reviewed…

Essay Series: Civil Rights Act at 60

Essay Series: From School Desegregation to School Integration

Forged and Sustained by Four Days of Television The Civil Rights Act of 1964, sweeping legislation since the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, prohibited discrimination in public places and…

Taylor Podcast: Fake News in the American Revolution

3 Jun 202429 Apr 2024

For the 141st episode of the Journalism History podcast, Author Jordan Taylor examines a “post-truth” era that long predated misleading social media posts and unscrupulous twenty-first-century politicians, stretching back to…

Clegg and Kennedy, What Works in Community News

13 May 20249 May 2024

2024-5 | Download PDF Clegg, Ellen, and Dan Kennedy. What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2024,…

Susca Podcast: How Private Investment Helped Destroy Newspapers

6 May 202429 Apr 2024

For the 140th episode of the Journalism History podcast, journalism researcher and former reporter Margot Susca delves into the destructive practices of private equity firms on newspapers, highlighting the urgent…

Russell Podcast: PR and Crime Novels

15 Apr 202431 Mar 2024

For the 139th episode of the Journalism History podcast, PR researcher Karen Miller Russell discusses her latest research about public relations in U.S. mystery novels. Karen Miller Russell is Jim…

Jaffee, Record Store Day

8 Apr 20248 Apr 2024

2024-4 | Download PDF Jaffee, Larry. Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century. Los Angeles, CA: Rare Bird Books, 2022, 216 pp. $20.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781644282557…

Finneman and Pribanic-Smith, Social Justice, Activism and Diversity in U.S. Media History

11 Mar 202411 Mar 2024

2024-3 | Download PDF Finneman, Teri, and Erika Pribanic-Smith, eds., with Cami Koons and Bella Koscal, 2023. Social Justice, Activism and Diversity in U.S. Media History. New York: Routledge, 234…

Vogan Podcast: ESPN Turns 45

4 Mar 20242 Mar 2024

For the 138th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Author Travis Vogan discusses the complicated legacy and precarious future of the all-sports cable network that turned the NFL Draft and…

Gower, Betsy Ann Plank

12 Feb 20249 Feb 2024

2024-2 | Download PDF Gower, Karla K, Columbia, Betsy Ann Plank: The Making of a Public Relations Icon.Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2022, 240 pp., $45 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780826222596 Reviewed by Sonya…