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Editor’s note American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Endnotes American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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“Too Infernally Scientific”: John Wesley Powell and News Framing of Climate Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Press American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ken J. Ward, Aaron Atkins
In 1890, John Wesley Powell launched a plan to reshape land use polices in the western United States. His proposal, grounded in science, sought to protect vulnerable water rights and garnered US pr...
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Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Thomas R. Schmidt
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Journalism in the Civil War Era American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-29 William E. Huntzicker
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Tel Ra Productions: The Unknown Story of a Philadelphia Production Company That Captured Americans’s Passion for Sports on Film in the Post-WWII Era American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Daniel Marshall Haygood
During commercial television’s early years, the nation’s four networks initially featured an extensive offering of sports programming on prime-time schedules. The networks then replaced sports with...
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Influencing the Future by Interrogating the Past American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Mike Conway
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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The Magnus Archive, https://rustyquill.com/show/the-magnus-archives/ American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Hayley McCullough
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Children, War & Propaganda American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Charles Sorrie
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Magazine American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Spinning Hate: Mississippi’s Post-Brown PR Offensive and the Secret Campaign Against ‘Agitators,’ 1956-1960 American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Edgar Simpson
After the US Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education ruling in 1954, the Mississippi Legislature approved several laws designed to fight integration and federalize civil rights. Among the legi...
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Diving into the Belgian Press: BelgicaPress, BelgicaPeriodicals and CAMille https://www.belgicapress.be/ American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alexia Vidalenche
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Cari S. Babitzke
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Brazilian Digital Hemeroteca: Collection of Newspapers and Magazines from the National Library, https://bndigital.bn.gov.br/hemeroteca-digital/ American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Otávio Daros
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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“A Good Honest Journeyman Newspapering”: Billboard’s Lee Zhito Exposes Editorializing at George A. Richards’s “Station of the Stars” American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Madeleine Liseblad, Gregory Pitts
A 1948 journalistic scoop informed the public and broadcast regulators about misconduct on the airwaves. The investigation by Lee Zhito established Billboard—known for music coverage and song chart...
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Live From The Underground: A History of College Radio American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jason Lee Guthrie
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News American Journalism Pub Date : 2024-01-17 John McMurria
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Debate over Civil War Soldier Voting in California’s Partisan Press, 1863–1864 American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Erika J. Pribanic-Smith
California’s fall 1863 elections marked the first time the state attempted any sort of untraditional voting. Republicans asserted that Civil War circumstances necessitated extending suffrage to sol...
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Into the State: How American Reporters Came to Work For the US Government American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Daniel DeFraia
What a reporter is and does, and does not do, and the integrity of that idea, has always been an unsettled question, interrogated on the blurred, unregulated borders between journalism and the stat...
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 John McQuaid
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Randall Patnode
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Editor’s Note American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Foreign Correspondence in the Early Telegraphic Era: The Herald, the Tribune, and the 1848 Revolutions American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ulf Jonas Bjork
In 1848, political revolutions were breaking out all over Europe simultaneously while new technological advancements were having significant and profound impacts on news gathering practices abroad....
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Revising the First Rough Draft: On Journalism, History, and Journalism History American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jason Lee Guthrie
Media history is more important than ever. Yes, this is true because media are more pervasive, more fundamental to our lives than ever. It is also true because media historians form one of the fina...
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Forging a Path Toward Accessibility: Rethinking How We Collect and Share Stories American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ashley Walter
In a meditation on the future of journalism and media history—through the lens of a closer re-examination of methodology—this essay challenges journalism historians to rethink how they collect and ...
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Conversations with Ron Wyden, Senator from Oregon, and Jamie Raskin, Congressman from Maryland American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Interview by Nicholas Hirshon
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Social Justice, Activism and Diversity in U.S. Media History American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Bailey Dick
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Empire Between the Lines: Imperial Culture in British and French Trench Newspapers of the Great War American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ross F. Collins
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Vivian Castleberry: Challenging the Traditions of Women’s Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Teri Finneman
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Meghan Menard McCune
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Ms. Marvel: A Superheroine’s Tale of Truth and Justice American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Syed Ali Hussain, Shireen Korkzan
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lisa Bolz
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Endnotes American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ashley Walter
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 4, 2023)
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A Conversation with Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime Minister of Nepal American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Interview by Nicholas Hirshon
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Endnotes American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-09-18
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Editor’s Note American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 (2nd edition) American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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The Value of Community and Understanding History in Troubling Times American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Aimee Edmondson
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Conservative News Cultures and the Future of Journalism History American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-08-28 A. J. Bauer
Political historians have long identified a gap in the literature on US conservatism surrounding that movement’s relationship to journalism and mass media. This essay calls on journalism historians...
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A Change in Time: American Journalism’s 2013 Transition to a Commercial Publisher American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Barbara G. Friedman, Kathy Roberts Forde
Change is never easy, especially for historians who have their feet firmly planted in the past. So, in 2013, when American Journalism editor Barbara G. Friedman and associate editor Kathy Roberts Forde proposed moving from independent university presses to a commercial academic publisher, there was apprehension. But theirs was a utilitarian goal: creating a solid path for journalism and mass communication
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The Global Panoply of Propaganda-Press Cultures: Expanding International Journalism History American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Elisabeth Fondren
More than two decades after journalism historians proposed an international or global turn in how to study the interconnected histories of journalism and information cultures, much has been achieve...
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Queerly Represent Me. https://representme.charity/ American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Hayley McCullough
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Kevin M. Lerner
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears (2021) American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Brandy Hadden
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Mr. Associated Press: Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Will Mari
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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The Wendell Smith Reader: Selected Writings on Sports, Civil Rights and Black History American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Wayne Dawkins
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in The United States, 1789–1828 American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Flora Khoo
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Indian Ideology in The Warpath: Lehman Brightman’s Red Power Journalism American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-18 John M. Coward
The Warpath, the “angry Indian” newsletter founded by the militant but oft overlooked journalist Lehman Brightman, was one of several Red Power publications founded in the late 1960s as part of the...
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War Chief, Friend of the President, Prohibitionist: Would the “Real” Little Turtle Please Stand Up? American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Melissa Greene-Blye, John Bickers
A chronological examination of historical newspapers of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and early-twentieth century reveals that representations of Mihšihkinaahkwa—popularly known as Little Turtle...
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A Conversation with Pat LaFontaine, Hall of Fame Hockey Player American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Interview by Nicholas Hirshon
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Reporting World War II American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-06-27 John Maxwell Hamilton
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2023)
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Editor’s note American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Pamela E. Walck
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Endnotes American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-05-18
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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“Our Reporter Is Just Come From The Ruins”: Reporting Practices and the 1860 Pemberton Mill Disaster American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Katrina Jesick Quinn, Mary M. Cronin
The largest industrial disaster ever to have occurred on American soil at the time, the gruesome January 10, 1860, collapse of the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, provides an opportunity to study early breaking news reporting in the nineteenth century narrative and illustrated press. Using newspapers at the local, regional, and national level, the study examines reporting strategies, story
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Shifting the Archival Gaze: A Case for Leveraging Computational Methods to Uncover Media History Narratives American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Meg Heckman, Giulia Taurino
Abstract Through an interdisciplinary examination of a bourgeoning technology, this essay grapples with the opportunities and challenges of using a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning to catalog and make sense of the unpreceded number of digital materials now available to media historians. The authors—a journalism professor and an AI researcher—describe their recent interdisciplinary
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“By Far the Best of Our Foreign Representatives:” Vira B. Whitehouse and the Origins of Public Diplomacy American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Ayla Oden, John Maxwell Hamilton
The Committee on Public Information’s efforts during World War I marked the beginning of American public diplomacy, but its influence has been overlooked. This paper examines the role of suffragist Vira B. Whitehouse in the pioneering endeavor in Berne, Switzerland. Scant research has looked at Whitehouse’s significant contribution to public diplomacy and, even then, it largely ignores the challenges
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Race Films and the Black Press: Representation and Resistance American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Carolina Velloso
Beginning with the release of The Birth of a Nation through the mid-twentieth century, the film industry began featuring African Americans on the silver screen. The emergence of race films—major film productions made by African Americans and featuring Black artists—were frequently reported and reviewed in the Black press. This examination of the coverage of race films in three major Black newspapers
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Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage: The Inathèque, http://Inatheque.ina.fr/ American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Léa Andolfi
Published in American Journalism (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Historicizing Metajournalistic Discourse Analysis: Thinking Beyond Journalism about Journalism American Journalism Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Michael Buozis
In a meditation on the burgeoning literature of metajournalistic discourse analysis, this essay argues for ways in which the discipline of journalism history could be invigorated by researchers considering much broader conceptions of the actors, sites, and texts that constitute media history. Through an analytical literature review of existing metajournalistic discourse studies, both historical and