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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”

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”…
Book Reviews

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,…
Podcast

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…
Research Essay

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…
Book Reviews

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,…
Podcast

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

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 202326 Mar 2026
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…
Book Reviews

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…

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Dr. Perry Parks
Editor, Journalism History
Michigan State University
Phone: 517-355-4489 (office)
Email: parksp@msu.edu

 

 

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Books for review may be sent to:

Dr. Joseph Jones
West Virginia University
Email: Joseph.Jones@mail.wvu.edu

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