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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”

Voss, Vivian Castleberry

9 Oct 20239 Oct 2023

2023-10 | Download PDF Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. Vivian Castleberry: Challenging the Traditions of Women’s Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023, 138 pp. $90 (hardback). ISBN:…

Myers Podcast: Explaining 1948 Presidential Election Coverage

2 Oct 202314 Aug 2023

For the 133rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Cayce Myers describes the tactics used by the press in explaining its errant coverage of the 1948 presidential election, drawing…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Can’t Unsee it

18 Sep 202315 Sep 2023

The Viewer Society Individuals commonly use the expression "I remember exactly where I was…" when recounting their memories of significant breaking news events like the assassination of President Kennedy, the…

Rottenberg, The Education of a Journalist

11 Sep 202311 Sep 2023

2023-9 | Download PDF Rottenberg, Dan. The Education of a Journalist: My Seventy Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech. Philadelphia: Redmount Press, 2022, 406 pp., $18 (Softcover). ISBN: 9798985600506…

Lanosga Podcast: Abolitionists’ Investigative Reporting

4 Sep 202314 Aug 2023

For the 132nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, journalism historian Gerry Lanosga describes the investigative reporting techniques used by abolitionists in the early 1800s to counter lies and disinformation spread…

Buller Podcast: The Sage of Emporia

21 Aug 202322 Aug 2023

For the 131st episode of the Journalism History podcast, Biographer Beverley Buller discusses William Allen White, known as the Sage of Emporia, and how this Kansas newspaper owner became a…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: How a ‘Bald, Fat White Guy’ Texas Sportscaster Became a Viral Moral Compass

21 Aug 202314 Aug 2023

A deeper look at Sportscaster Dale Hansen Throughout his four-decade career in Dallas, iconic sportscaster Dale Hansen was often called bombastic and arrogant. He called himself a “male chauvinistic pig”…

Tucher, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History

14 Aug 20236 Aug 2023

2023-8 | Download PDF Tucher, Andie. Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022, 384 pp., $28.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9780231186353. Reviewed by Enrique Núñez-Mussa,…

Hendershot Podcast: When the News Broke

7 Aug 202326 Jul 2023

For the 130th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Author Heather Hendershot discusses her book, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Heather Hendershot is professor…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: The Pedagogy of Public Broadcasting

26 Jul 202326 Jul 2023

Examining the Partnership of Educational Television in American Classrooms In 1952, the Federal Communications Commission issued the Sixth Report and Order, allocating more than 200 high-frequency television channels for educational…