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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”

Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

1 May 202315 Apr 2023

2023-5 | Download PDF Olmsted, Kathryn. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 328 pp., $30.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780300256420, Reviewed by…

Martens Podcast: Advertising and the Great Depression

24 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

For the 125th episode of the Journalism History podcast, University of Kansas student Chloe Martens discusses her research examining how advertisers framed their products during the Dust Bowl/Great Depression years. Chloe…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: TV Cigar-Store Indians: Test Patterns, Ads, and ‘Whiting Out’ History

17 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

"Those who tell the stories rule the world," Hopi Nation proverb Television tapped into our human hunger for stories. Like earlier forms of media, TV’s narratives told us who we…

Article Award…

AEJMC History Division Announces 2023 Sweeney Award Winner

Paul Myers and Lisa Parcell of Wichita State University won the 2023 Michael S. Sweeney Award for their article, “Beauty and the Bran: Kellogg’s Campaign to ‘Correct Faulty Elimination’ and…

Yarrow Podcast: The Forgotten Magazine

10 Apr 20236 Apr 2023

For the 124th episode of the Journalism History podcast, Former New York Times reporter, book author, and historian Andrew L. Yarrow shares the overlooked history of Look magazine, a photojournalistic rival…

Örnebring, Karlsson, Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept

3 Apr 20231 Apr 2023

2023-4 | Download PDF Örnebring, Henrick and Karlsson, Michael. Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2022, 370 pp., $40.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780826222541 Reviewed by John-Erik Koslosky,…

Legg Podcast: The History of Deaf Printers

27 Mar 202323 Mar 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Journalism History podcast, Curator Jannelle Legg discusses a new online exhibit examining the role of Deaf printers in journalism history. Jannelle Legg is assistant professor…

Broadcast History Series

Broadcast Essay: Profits and the ‘public interest’: The impact of deregulation and local TV news

20 Mar 202314 Mar 2023

The Decline of Local News Engagement with the Public Journalism in the United States has experienced a tremendous erosion in trust over the past 50 years (Gallup, n.d.). However, local…

Holzer Podcast: FDR

13 Mar 20238 Mar 2023

For the 90th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt becoming president, author Harold Holzer discusses FDR's relationship with the press and public relations, as well as his mastery of mass communication, in…

Cassidy, Sweeney, NBC Goes to War

6 Mar 20236 Mar 2023

2023-3 | Download PDF James Cassidy, Edited by Michael S. Sweeney, NBC Goes to War: The Diary of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge (New York: Fordham…