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Deadline Extended to Dec 25

14 Dec 202517 Dec 2025
Journalism History – 2025-26 Essay Competition Call The colonial-era US printer Benjamin Franklin is credited with responding to a question about what the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had produced by…
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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Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press.

5 Oct 20259 Oct 2025
2025-10-Book-Review-October| Download PDF Botma, Gawie. Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 308 pp., $190.00 (Hardback). ISBN 9781032954714. Reviewed by…
Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series 2025: How Grace Omaboe Defined Feminist Activism Journalism in Ghana to Predict an Activist Journalistic Future

14 Sep 2025
How Grace Omaboe Defined Feminist Activism Journalism in Ghana to Predict an Activist Journalistic Future ivy fofie Assistant Professor of communication studies, LMU In the late 1990s and early 2000s,…
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Last paper standing: A century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News.

8 Sep 2025
2025-9-Book-Review-September| Download PDF Ward, Ken J. Last paper standing: A century of competition between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 278 pp.,…
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Journalism for the public good: the michener awards at fifty.

4 Aug 202514 Aug 2025
2025-8Book-Review-August| Download PDF Kierans, Kim. Journalism for the Public Good: The Michener Awards at Fifty. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2024, 304 pp., $38.99 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77385-534-9. Reviewed by Jeffrey…
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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,…
Essay Series: Journalism Cultures

Essay Series about to start

19 May 2025
From Essay Coordinator, Josie Vine, RMIT University, Melbourne. Our 2025 Essay Series on the construction of Journalism Culture is about to kick-off. Each month from June until the end of…

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

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