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Current Issue

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”

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 202326 Mar 2026

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…

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 202326 Mar 2026

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…