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Thelma Berlack Boozer: A “Forgotten First” at the School of Journalism at Lincoln University Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Henrik Örnebring
This article shows that Thelma Berlack Boozer (1906–2001) was the first Black person to hold professorial rank in a School of Journalism at a US university. The School of Journalism at Lincoln Univ...
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The Reagan Doctrine or “Sandinista Chic”? Political Balance in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 1982 Mission to Central America Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Lindsay Palmer
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a world-renowned press freedom organization that advocates on behalf of journalists being persecuted for doing their work. Launched in 1981, CPJ was original...
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Women: Benevolent Sexism in Historical Studies of Women Journalists, 1974–2023 Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Bailey G. Dick
This article examines histories of women journalists published in our field’s two leading journals, American Journalism and Journalism History, to understand how these women and their work have bee...
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The Black Arts Movement and the House of Ideas Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-06-24 William Schulte, Nathaniel Frederick II
Published in Journalism History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Ad Agency and Ad Content in the 1840s Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Tim P. Vos, You Li
Volney B. Palmer, the father of the American advertising agency, introduced the idea of systematic advertising in the 1840s, beginning a new chapter of the newspaper advertising business. This stud...
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“A Difficult Period of Testing and Transition”: The Press Framing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in Four Mississippi Newspapers Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Pete Smith
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 3, 2024)
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Ruben Salazar: Beyond Postage Stamp Memory Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Melita M. Garza
In 2008, Ruben Salazar was memorialized on a US postage stamp, one of several media icons of moral courage that included John Hersey, George Polk, and Martha Gellhorn, so honored at the same time. ...
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2024)
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Alvin Dark and the Chipmunks: Racism, Baseball, and the Press in 1964 Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Aram Goudsouzian
In 1964, Newsday columnist Stan Isaacs quoted San Francisco Giants manager Alvin Dark making disparaging comments about his team’s Black and Latino players. This article analyzes the controversy ov...
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Loyal Readers: Coastal Southern Newspapers Under Union Occupation in the Civil-War Era Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Jonathan Daniel Wells
This article analyzes the content and ideology of Civil-War era newspapers that were published in the Confederacy, focusing on the coastal Atlantic areas under Union occupation. Such periodicals re...
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The National Union of Journalists and Journalism Education in Interwar Britain Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mara Arts
Are journalists born or made? During the interwar period (1919–1939), the British National Union of Journalists (NUJ) grappled with this question, as the first university course for journalism was ...
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Crime and Reform: An Underworld of Journalism Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Daniel Defraia
This article reconstructs the shrouded career of undercover reporter Natalie de Bogory (mostly from 1911–1922) to illustrate how reporters collaborated with public-private networks to regulate real...
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“Tin Cans and String”: Democrats’ Failed Attempts to Challenge Conservative Talk Radio from 1994 to 1996 Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Gregory Svirnovskiy, Jon Marshall
In the mid-1990s, Democratic Party leaders attempted to counter the popularity of Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts following the Republican sweep of the 1994 midterm elections....
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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How Media Historians Should Act Now to Preserve Their Field Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Maurine H. Beasley
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Addressing the Problem(s) of Journalism History Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Alexia Little, Gerry Lanosga
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Mike Sweeney: An Editor for the Ages Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Aimee Edmondson
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Journalism History: Revised and Resubmitted Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gregory A. Borchard
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Former JH Editor Shares Tips for Managing an Academic Journal Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Patrick Washburn
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Why Peer Review Matters Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Earnest L. Perry Jr.
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Building a Digital Platform for Journalism History Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Erika Pribanic-Smith
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Publications Committee Celebrates Fifty Years of Journalism History Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Madeleine Liseblad, Teri Finneman
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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The Literary Value and Efficacy of the Book Review Over Fifty Years Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sonya R. DiPalma
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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“Is It Smart to Be Thrifty?”: How Advertisers Navigated Message Strategies During the Great Depression Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Teri Finneman, Vaibhav Shwetangbhai Diwanji, Melissa Greene-Blye, Chloe Martens
Despite the major historical significance of the Great Depression, little scholarly research exists that analyzes the state of newspaper advertising during the 1930s, particularly in the hard-hit D...
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Nativism, Nostalgia, and Photography: The Legacy of Augustus F. Sherman’s Ellis Island Photographs in the US Press Journalism History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Anthony J. Cepak
The following investigation examines the contribution photographer Augustus F. Sherman made to immigration discourse through his early twentieth-century portraiture of Ellis Island immigrants. Sher...
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First Chinese American Newspaperwoman: Mamie Louise Leung at the Los Angeles Record, 1926-1929 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Yu-Li Chang Zacher
This article chronicles the early journalism career of the first Chinese American newspaperwoman, Mamie Louise Leung, who reported for the Los Angeles Record from 1926 to 1929. Despite feeling inse...
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Retreat from the Golden Age: Russian Journalists & Their World, 1992-2000 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Rashad Mammadov, Owen V. Johnson
The overall processes in the first decade of independent Russian media can be divided into distinct phases. The first phase was characterized by a golden age of political independence in the early ...
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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Fake News in an Early Hebrew Newspaper: Sensationalist Journalism in HaTzfira in 1874 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Zef M. Segal
The history of fake news is longer and more nuanced than usually considered. This article examines a particular case study in the late nineteenth century, in which the publication of fake news in a...
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“A Paper Agitation”: The All India Newspaper Editors’ Conference, the Indian State, and the Struggle Over the First Amendment Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Aritra Majumdar
The addition of the First Amendment to the Indian Constitution is considered a crucial moment in the constitutional history of liberty of speech and expression, and by extension, freedom of the pre...
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“Blood on their Hands” vs. “A Foolish Prank”: The British Press’s Response to a Deadly Hoax on the Royal Family Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Teri Finneman, Ryan J. Thomas
This study builds upon historical scholarship of the royal family and the British press to examine a critical incident in 2012 involving future queen Kate Middleton. After radio deejays hoaxed a ho...
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2023)
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From Gibson Girl to Gibson Goddess: The World War I Illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson in Life Magazine Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Harlen Makemson
ABSTRACT Charles Dana Gibson’s leadership of the Division of Pictorial Publicity, part of the US government’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), during World War I has been thoroughly studied, yet scant attention has been given to his own art during the conflict. This study examines Gibson’s illustrations that appeared in the illustrated humor magazine Life during World War I, with the primary
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”Mystery People”: Triracial Isolate Newspaper Coverage and Conceptions of Race from 1880-1943 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jodi McFarland Friedman
ABSTRACT Croatans, Melungeons, Redbones, Wesorts. In US society at the turn of the twentieth century, as in other times, racial identity brought power and powerlessness. Triracial isolates—with their presumed blend of Indian, European, and African ancestry—puzzled early newsmen who marveled about and ridiculed them. This qualitative content analysis pulls apart newspaper coverage of such groups to
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The Irish People and the American Presidency Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Timothy Roy Gleason
ABSTRACT Irish People was a New York-based newspaper with the single mission of supporting Catholics in Northern Ireland as they faced discrimination from the British-controlled Ulster government. While Irish American magazines promoted a romantic view of Ireland that encouraged tourism to the Republic of Ireland, Irish People reported on political and social conflict. This article examines Irish People’s
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Expecting Advice: Reproductive Health and Consciousness Raising in the Boston Globe’s Confidential Chat Column Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Meg Heckman, Arden Bastia
ABSTRACT This article explores consciousness raising in the Boston Globe’s Confidential Chat column, documenting how, during the second wave of feminism, it became a venue where women educated themselves about reproductive health. The Chat’s nonhierarchical, participatory nature allowed women to discuss abortion, contraception, infertility, and related topics during a time when the role of women in
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Covering Terror at the 1972 Summer Olympics: ABC Sports and the Evolution of Live Broadcast News Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Raymond McCaffrey
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Commercial Television’s Secret Goldmine: The Hidden Riches Generated by US Network TV News, 1960–1970 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Michael J. Socolow
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Audience Repair as Paradigm Repair: Fixing the ‘Gamer’ in Games Journalism Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Gregory Perreault, Leonardo Caberlon, Cameron Stuart
ABSTRACT Gaming journalism began its existence under attack from the rest of the journalistic field and from US culture as a result of its audience: young, diverse, and progressive. This study argues that early gaming magazines (n = 150) repaired the gaming paradigm during the development of gaming’s mainstream acceptance from 1991–1995 by challenging stereotypes of gamers: imagining gamers as diverse
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When Propaganda Became a Dirty Word Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Lindsay M. McCluskey, John Maxwell Hamilton, Amy Reynolds
ABSTRACT With the emergence of systematic, pervasive government information programs and the rise of persuasion as a new profession, the words propaganda and publicity became definitional in the twentieth century. This historical qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the New York Times provides a basis for understanding the usage of propaganda and publicity during the years leading up to
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Deadline: A History of Journalists Murdered in the United States Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Elizabeth Atwood
ABSTRACT Despite the press freedom enshrined in the First Amendment, at least sixty-four journalists were intentionally killed in the United States between 1829 and 2023 because of their work. The victims included veteran and novice reporters who worked at news outlets in big cities and small towns throughout the country. This study aims to provide an account of those attacks in order to develop a
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“Letters from Honest People” and “Letters from Hell”: Emergent Visceral Publics in Carrie Nation’s Smasher’s Mail Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kerith M. Woodyard
ABSTRACT Grounded in Jenell Johnson’s theory of visceral publics, this study examines 229 letters published in the Smasher’s Mail, an American temperance newspaper edited by Progressive-era reformer Carrie (or Carry) Nation11. Nation’s birth name was Carrie Amelia Moore. After marrying her second husband David Nation in 1874, Nation legally changed her name from “Carrie” to “Carry” because she believed
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2023)
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“If Ever Saints Wept and Hell Rejoiced, It Must Have Been Over the Passage of That Law”: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderland Newspapers, 1851-1852 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Anna E. Lindner, Michael Fuhlhage, D. T. Frazier, Keena S. Neal
ABSTRACT The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 raised the stakes for antislavery Whites and people of African descent in the United States by making resistance to slave catchers a federal crime. This study uses historical theme analysis to examine the rhetoric employed by newspapers in the Detroit River Borderland, which connected Michigan to Canada West, to promote or resist the Fugitive Slave
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Manipulating the Sphere: Mississippi’s Post-Brown Offensive Against White Journalists Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Edgar Simpson
ABSTRACT In the months after the US Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of separate but equal in its Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Mississippi legislature passed a series of laws designed to thwart desegregation. Among them was the creation of the state Sovereignty Commission. This study examines the commission’s actions within the context of the public sphere and its attempts to spy
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The Arizona Republic and the Indianapolis Star: A Comparative Analysis of Content Changes After Purchase by Gannett Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Jeanne S. Criswell, Robert H. Gobetz, Frederick E. May
ABSTRACT Gannett’s purchase of the Arizona Republic and the Indianapolis Star in 2000 created fertile and historically uncommon conditions for considering ownership’s impact on news coverage. This study provides quantitative evidence that a local newspaper’s quality before an ownership change substantially influences whether a new ownership model will have a positive, negative, or neutral effect. The
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Wear the Blue Star: Frontier Values vs. Environmentalism in News Coverage of Colorado River Dams, 1954-1956 Journalism History Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Glen Feighery
ABSTRACT This study examines news coverage of a federal project that resulted in the building of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River and sparked an environmental controversy. The project pitted boosters against conservationists, and this research illustrates how western newspapers promoted growth through dams and irrigation. Acknowledging the region in which several newspapers operated, this study
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2022)
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Beauty and the Bran: Kellogg’s Campaign to “Correct Faulty Elimination” and Conquer the Cereal Industry Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Paul Myers, Lisa Mullikin Parcell
ABSTRACT Brothers John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg understood the importance of public health concerns, particularly those relating to constipation, and of home economics and dietetics research. The Kellogg’s Corn Flake Company’s investment into home economics became integral to the brand itself and helped establish Kellogg’s as a leader in addressing the growing dietary health concerns
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Chicago Defender, Tobacco Sponsorship, and the Health of the African American Public Sphere Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Joseph P. Jones, Earnest L. Perry Jr
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between the Chicago Defender and its largest national sponsor, the tobacco industry, from 1947–1975. As a member of the Black press during an age of increasing civil rights activism and intensified media competition, the Defender had difficulty attracting national commercial sponsorship. Tobacco companies were the lone exception and patronage meant more
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Identifying Research Gaps and Opportunities as Journal’s Fiftieth Anniversary Nears Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Gerry Lanosga, Alexia Little, Lillie Fears, Candi Carter Olson
ABSTRACT In anticipation of Journalism History’s fiftieth year of publication, the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication commissioned this audit of the journal’s content beginning with the first issue in 1974. A total of 727 research essays were coded for author demographics and focus on historical period and media type as well as various diversity factors
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A Commemorative Bind: How the Birmingham News Redressed Past Journalistic Failure through Contemporary Civil Rights Memory Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Lorraine Ahearn, Barbara Friedman
ABSTRACT Ideological clashes over race in American memory reveal an existential divide in journalism, between an ethos of activism and the normative rituals of objectivity. This study examines a crisis of memory that occurred upon a newspaper’s centennial in the 1980s alongside mainstream commemorations of the US civil rights movement amid an age of apology and backlash. The Birmingham News, a White
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From Distant to Devastating: The Newsworthiness of Environmental Controversies at the New York Times, 1950s–1970s Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Suzannah Evans Comfort, Lauren Ulrich
ABSTRACT While environmental degradation has long been a fact of American life, the environment did not become an integral part of American newsmaking until the late 1960s. Then, news organizations began assigning reporters to the environmental beat in the wake of increased public interest in environmental issues. This study examines the emergence of environmental journalism at the New York Times through
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Editor’s Note Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Pam Parry
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Journalism History Analyzes Diversity Coverage as 50th Year Approaches Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Gerry Lanosga, Lexie Little
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Our Forgotten Mother: Daisy Bates and Her School Integration Campaign Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Monique Freemon, Lori Amber Roessner
ABSTRACT This manuscript seeks to recover and properly recognize the public relations efforts of social justice crusader Daisy Gatson Bates (1914–99), the co-owner of the Arkansas State Press and a state-level NAACP organizer, during the early years of the civil rights movement. The purpose of this study is to intervene in the “Great (White) Man’s” account of public relations history by documenting
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Cementing Their Heroes: Historical Newspaper Coverage of Confederate Monuments Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Alexia Little
ABSTRACT Following continued conflicts over Confederate monuments in American society, this study explores Civil War memory encapsulated in newspaper coverage of the initial construction and dedication of four Confederate monuments. Discourse and narrative analyses of 258 articles published in seven US newspapers in the 1890s and 1920s examine how the American public negotiated terms of heroes, victims
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Breaking the Billboard Magazine Mold: The Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, and Julio Iglesias Super Specials Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Madeleine Liseblad, Gregory Pitts
ABSTRACT Battling an economic recession, Billboard—one of the world’s oldest trade publications—dramatically altered its cover appearance in three super special issues. The smashing success of “The Legend of Barbra Streisand” issue brought needed revenue and a synergistic marketing relationship between Billboard and Streisand’s movie Yentl and its soundtrack. Two more super specials followed: “The
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A Prize of Their Own: Marginalized Journalists Seek a Share of Professional Esteem Journalism History Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Gerry Lanosga
Published in Journalism History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)