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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”

Research Essay: Journalism historians’ unique responsibility to justice

17 Jul 202317 Jul 2023

Jonathan Eig and Jeanne Theoharis, in a beautifully crafted column for the New York Times recently, noted that periodically throughout history we have seen the ugliness of racism, classism, and misogyny on…

Smith, Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

10 Jul 20234 Jul 2023

2023-7 | Download PDF Smith, Emma. Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers. London: Allen Lane, 2022, 352 pp., $24.74 (Softcover).ISBN: 9781524749095, Reviewed by Barbara Ruth Burke, Communication,…

Cox Podcast: Staged News

3 Jul 202324 Jun 2023

For the 129th episode of the Journalism History podcast, author Jordana Cox discusses her book, Staged News, about a Depression-era collaboration between journalism and theater to produce news for the theatrical…

Teaching Essay: Frontier Values vs. Environmentalism in News Coverage of Colorado River Dams

26 Jun 202324 Jun 2023

Imagine a massive federal proposal to transform large parts of the United States. The plan would alter (some say destroy) wilderness areas, but its backers argue that the economic benefits…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Live Television Changed the Way We Saw the World

19 Jun 20234 Jul 2023

How television changed the cultural landscape Joe Saltzman Television news started out as the bastard child of radio news and the film newsreel, and it was almost immediately disowned by…

Volponi & Shulman, Phyllis George: Shattering the Glass Ceiling

12 Jun 20239 Jun 2023

2023-6 | Download PDF Volponi, Paul and Shulman, Lenny. Phyllis George: Shattering the Ceiling. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2022, 216 pp., $27.95 (hardback). ISBN: 9780813195810, Reviewed by Kay…

Cieslik-Miskimen Podcast: The Birth of High School Journalism

5 Jun 20235 Jun 2023

For the 128th episode of the Journalism History podcast, researcher Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen describes how student newspapers became prominent parts of the American high school experience in the early 1900s. Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen…

McGarr Podcast: Responsibility vs. Objectivity in Cold War Washington

22 May 20237 May 2023

For the 127th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Historian Kathryn McGarr takes aim at the conventional view of the Cold War Washington press corps as a group of naïve transcriptionists.…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: The Intersectionality of Race and Power in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

15 May 202315 Dec 2024

How Fred Rogers and François Clemmons led with Compassion Following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, U.S. cities erupted in violent civil unrest. African Americans’ social oppression reached its…

Everbach Podcast: Monica Lewinsky and 1998 Newspaper Framing

8 May 20237 May 2023

For the 126th episode of the Journalism History podcast, researcher Tracy Everbach discusses the 25th anniversary since the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair became national news and the problematic coverage that…