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Book Reviews

How America gets the news: A history of U.S. Journalism.

9 Dec 2025
2025-12-Book-Review-November| Download PDF Ford Risley and Ashley Walter. How America gets the news: A history of U.S. Journalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, 239 pp., $25.20 (hardback) ISBN 9781442235267.…
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Business as usual: How sponsored media sold American capitalism in the 20th century.

4 Nov 2025
2025-11-Book-Review-November| Download PDF Jack, Caroline. Business as usual: How sponsored media sold American capitalism in the 20th century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 264 pp., $30.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 9780226835143…
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Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.

5 Jul 20255 Jul 2025
2025-7| Download PDF Mellinger, Gwyneth. Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024, 288 pp., $32.95 (paperback).…
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The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet

2 Jun 2025
2025-6| Download PDF Dame-Griff, Avery. The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2023, 272 pp., $32.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781479818310. Reviewed by Larissa Little,…
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Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter.

19 May 2025
2025-5| Download PDF McElroy, Jack. Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2024, 296…
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The case of Lizzie Borden and other writings

11 Feb 202520 Apr 2025
2025-1| Download PDF Jordan, Elizabeth. Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan (Eds.) The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2024,…
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The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice.

20 Jan 202522 Jan 2025
2025-1| Download PDF Myers, Cayce. The Rules of Public Relations: Legal and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Practice. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, 328 pp. $38.00 (Paperback) ISBN: 978-1-5381-8605-3…
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Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest

5 Dec 202430 Dec 2024
2024-12| Download PDF Guglielmo, Wayne J. Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023, 308 pp., $36.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-5381-7481-4.Susca, Margot. Hedged:…
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Predicting the winner: the untold story of election night 1952 and the dawn of computer forecasting.

14 Nov 2024
2024-11| Download PDF Chinoy, Ira. Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2024, 384 pp., $38.95 (Hardcover).…
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Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy.

14 Oct 2024
2024-10| Download PDF Susca, Margot. Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy. University of Illinois Press,2024, 215 pp., $19.63 (paperback). ISBN:  978-0252087561 Reviewed by Edgar…

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

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