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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”

Broussard Podcast: First Lady of the Black Press

5 Feb 202428 Jun 2024

For the 137th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Jinx Broussard discusses the career of Ethel Payne and the book African American Foreign Correspondents, A History. Jinx Broussard is…

Celebrate Fifty Years of Journalism History: Open Access Articles

23 Jan 202423 Jan 2024

Journalism History, the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States, is celebrating fifty years of continuous publication. Throughout 2024, articles from the journal's run will be…

Journal News…

Andie Tucher named Journalism History Best Podcast Guest

Andie Tucher of Columbia University is the winner of the 2023 Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History. Tucher is the guest of “Episode 121: The Colonial Press,” which released…

Fine, The Price of Truth

8 Jan 20244 Jan 2024

2024-1 | Download PDF Fine, Richard. The Price of Truth: The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, 312…

Allen Podcast: Kent Cooper’s Associated Press

1 Jan 202410 Feb 2024

For the 136th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Gene Allen, professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University, charts the career of Kent Cooper, who joined the Associated Press in 1910…

Shepperd, Shadow of the New Deal

11 Dec 20237 Nov 2023

2023-12 | Download PDF Shepperd, Josh. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023, 244 pp., $28 (Softcover). ISBN: 9780252087257. Reviewed…

Hanc Podcast: History of the Christmas Card

4 Dec 202310 Feb 2024

For the 135th episode of the Journalism History podcast, writer John Hanc describes his research on the history of Christmas cards for an article that ran in Smithsonian Magazine. John…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Long-Lasting Baby Boomer Memories of the JFK assassination

30 Nov 202330 Nov 2023

Forged and Sustained by Four Days of Television “All of us who knew him will bear the grief of his death until the day of ours.”-Adlai Stevenson, US Ambassador to…

Cox, Staged News

13 Nov 20237 Nov 2023

2023-11 | Download PDF Cox, Jordana. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Projects Living Newspapers in New York. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023, 170 pp., $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781625346797.…

Kitch Podcast: Memory, Myth, Media mourning and the Kennedys

6 Nov 20232 Nov 2023

For the 134th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Researcher Carolyn Kitch discusses her article, “A Death in the American Family: Myth, Memory and National Values in the Media Mourning of…