Recently added articles from Journalism History:
The Public Relations Work of Journalism Trailblazer and First Lady Confidante Lorena Hickok, 1937-45
Oct 01, 2009; ... This article draws on both primary and secondary sources to help understand the evolution of the public relations profession through a biographical analysis of Lorena Hickok, a reporter who was the first woman to have a front- page byline in the New York Times and to hold a PR position in the ...
"Women's Lib Has No Soul"? Analysis of Women's Movement Coverage in Black Periodicals, 1968-73
Oct 01, 2009; ... This analysis of twelve black magazines and journals and six black newspapers shows that positive coverage of the women's movement occurred across a wide spectrum of black periodicals from 1968 through 1973. Although criticism and ridicule of feminism existed in black print media, the ...
Ringside, Hearthside: Sports Scribe Jane Dixon Embodies Struggle of Jazz Age Women Caught Between Two Worlds
Oct 01, 2009; ... This article examines the groundbreaking contributions of Jane Dixon as a New York City sportswriter in the 1920s. She typified the way that most women entered the field: by writing about male sports from a so-called "woman's angle." Her stories were especially noteworthy for two reasons: she ...
Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia
Oct 01, 2009; ... For 200 years, historians have written that Thomas Jefferson and his fellow patriots brought a second printer into the colony of Virginia so that their radical messages could be heard. By examining newspapers and other evidence from the critical period around the Stamp Act of 1765-66, this ...
The Moral Duty of Publicity: Louis Dembitz Brandeis' Crusades for Reform in the Press and Public Affairs, 1890-1916
Oct 01, 2009; ... Just over a decade after Louis Dembitz Brandeis co-wrote "The Right to Privacy," which criticized nineteenth-century newspaper journalists' intrusive practices, the attorney sent articles and research to numerous muckraking journalists. On one level, his involvement with investigative ...