Recently added articles from Journalism History:
Summer in the City, 1968-74: Columbia University's Minority-Journalist Training Program
Jul 01, 2008; Basconi, Mary Alice ... America's post-riot era was a time of unfulfilled expectations for those concerned with newsroom staffing. The Kerner Commission said blacks should be trained, hired, and promoted in mainstream media, yet few news managers moved beyond tokenism to diversify what had been a white domain. In 1968, ...
Creating Political Authority: The Role of the Antebellum Black Press in the Political Mobilization and Empowerment of African Americans
Jul 01, 2008; Peeples, Matthew ... From its beginnings in the 1820s, African-American newspapers have always been a strong and vocal ally for the rights of blacks throughout the United States. This article delineates how and why these papers from the mid-1830s to the Civil War became important as platforms of political agency for ...
Necessity and the Invention of a Newspaper: Gov. Zebulon B. Vance's Conservative, 1864-65
Jul 01, 2008; Van Tuyll, Debra Reddin ... Starting a newspaper in the nineteenth century was a risky business, and this was especially true in the Civil War South where invading armies, spiraling inflation, and conscription laws were constant threats to physical facilities, financial success, and manpower. Despite this, North Carolina ...
A "Crisis of Americanism": Newspaper Coverage of John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry and a Question of Loyalty
Jul 01, 2008; Gabrial, Brian ... John Brown's October 16, 1859, raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, created a flashpoint in the United States, sparking what can be called a "Crisis of Americanism. "As this article shows, evidence of this discourse appeared frequently in extensive southern and northern newspaper coverage of his ...
Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents
Jul 01, 2008; Cleary, Johanna ... Barnhurst, Kevin. Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007. 298 pp. $32.95. As an interesting collection of articles on modern portrayals of gays in the media, Media Queered has a lot of strengths. However, as a definitive history of this ...
How Two Veteran Journalists in Opposing Media Encouraged a Sense of Community in a Georgia Town
Jul 01, 2008; Smith, Reed ... In the latter half of the twentieth century, a print and a broadcast journalist collectively reported on the people and events in Savannah, Georgia, for more than 100 years. As exceptional as their record of longevity, however, was the way in which they went about their jobs. Newspaperman Tom ...
Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press/Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
Jul 01, 2008; Fried, Richard M ... Alwood, Edward. Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 201 pp. $22.95. Wiegand, Shirley A., and Wayne A. Wiegand. Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 286 pp ....
The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart
Jul 01, 2008; Bronstein, Carolyn ... Clayton, John. The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 321 pp. $21.95. In The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline a life of comfort and celebrity on the east and political and romantic rivals, but also as newspaper publisher, a ...
9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea
Jul 01, 2008; Foust, James C ... Davidson, Randall. 9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 405 pp. $34.95. "As an industry, broadcast radio has been a mediocre steward of its history," Randall Davidson notes near the beginning of 9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the ...
Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace
Jul 01, 2008; Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth ... Gower, Karla. Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007. 300 pp. $24.95. Karla Gower, a professor of advertising and public relations, has written a timely book about the historical relationship of the press and public relations ....
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Jul 01, 2008; Lorente, Rafael ... Lewis, Anthony. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 221 pp. $25. Anthony Lewis' Freedom for the Thought That We Hate is a history of the fourteen words that make up the speech and press clauses of the First Amendment and ...
Journalism in a Culture of Grief
Jul 01, 2008; Burns, Lisa M ... Kitch, Carolyn and Janice Hume. Journalism in a Culture of Grief. New York: Routledge, 2008. 247 pp. $26.95. Each semester, I begin my Media History class by discussing September 11, asking my students what they temember from that day. While their individual stories start out ...
Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History
Jul 01, 2008; Carroll, Brian ... Terry, Wallace. Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007. 375 pp. $16.95. On a recent trip from my home in northwest Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, just across the state line, I traveled essentially the same route ...
The Role of the Clarion-Ledger in the Adoption of the 1982 Education Reform Act: Winning the Pulitzer Prize
Jul 01, 2008; Lueck, Therese L ... Wickham, Kathleen Woodruff. The Role of the Clarion-Ledger in the Adoption of the 1982 Education Reform Act: Winning the Pulitzer Prize. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellon Press, 2007. 420 pp. $129.95. Identifying the turning point of a newspaper as it disavows its segregationist heritage to ...
Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
Jul 01, 2008; Fisher, Douglas ... Wurtzler, Steven. Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media. New York: Columbia University Press. 416 pp. $26.50. It is not impossible to imagine that every time the cell-phone commercial appears asking "Can you hear me now?" author Steven Wurtzler smiles ...
"You Can't Air That": Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming
Jul 01, 2008; Ferré, John P ... Silverman, David S. "You Can't Air That": Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 181 pp. $19.95. The four socially conscious TV programs seemed like good ideas at the time. Having been beaten ...