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Volume 52, No. 3, Fall, 2026. In this Special Issue we explore Media Literacy, Mis/Disinformation Research, and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. We start with an introduction from guest editor, the Institute of Propaganda Anaylsis’, Anya Schiffrin, where she explores Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Special Issue…Continue reading “Current Issue”

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…

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…