Volume 35, No. 1, 2018

These issues are available through Communication and Mass Media Complete on EBSCOHost.

Editor’s Note                                                       

Articles

Journalism History and Conservative Erasure
By A. J. Bauer

“We Need This Television Just Like Any Other American Citizen”: The Battle Over Western TV Boosters, 1952–1961
By James C. Foust

Political Papers and Presidential Campaigns in the Republic of Texas, 1836-1844
By Erika J. Pribanic-Smith

Cowboy Songs from a Cold War Adversary: Listening to RIAS as Portrayed in the East German Press
By Kevin Grieves

Professional Notes

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
Richard Fine

Book Reviews

Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the Fourth Estate
By James D. Startt
Reviewed by Stephen Ponder

Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
By Sid Bedingfield
Reviewed by Fred Carroll

From Prague to Jerusalem: An Uncommon Journey of a Journalist
By Milan Kubic
Reviewed by Ulf Jonas Björk

Eddie Adams: Bigger than the Frame
Foreword by Don Carleton; preface by Alyssa Adams; essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker
Reviewed by Linda J. Lumsden

The Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
By Gerald Horne
Reviewed by Cristina Mislán

After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865-1900
David Sachsman, ed., with Dea Lisica
Reviewed by Julie Ann Goldsmith

The History of the Provincial Press in England
By Rachel Matthews
Reviewed by Paulette D. Kilmer

Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression
By Cara A. Finnegan
Reviewed by Jennifer Kowalewski

Digital Media Reviews

Digital Archive of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
Reviewed by Koji Fuse

FBI and CIA Documents Online
Reviewed by Matthew Cecil

Presidential Address
“Little Rock, India”
David J. Vergobbi

Endnotes

 

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Volume 35, No. 2, 2018

These issues are available through Communication and Mass Media Complete on EBSCOHost.

Editor’s Note                                                         

Articles

Ethics and the Profession: The Crystallizing of Public Relations Practice from Association to Accreditation, 1936–1964
By Nicholas Browning

The Blood of Others: Television Documentary Journalism as Literary Engagement
By Thomas A. Mascaro

Reporting from Behind Enemy Lines:  How the National Guardian and Liberation Brought Vietnam to the American Left
By Michael Koncewicz

The New York Times and the Times of London on India’s Independence Leaders, 1920–1948
By Jane O’Boyle

Professional Notes

Not Your Grandpa’s Hoax: A Comparative History of Fake News
By Julien Gorbach

Book Reviews

Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC
By Kate Murphy
Reviewed by Catherine A. Luther

Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine’s Visual Representation, 1954–1965
By Michael Dibari Jr.
Reviewed by David R. Davies

China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan
By Parks M. Coble
Reviewed by John Jenks

The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall
By Jeff Biggers
Reviewed by James Aucoin

Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz
By Lee Congdon
Reviewed by Kathleen M. O’Toole

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
By Benjamin Fagan
Reviewed by Michael Fuhlhage

Dying for the Truth: The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting
By Paul Moorcraft
Reviewed by Dean Smith

Cecil Brown: The Murrow Boy Who Became Broadcasting’s Crusader for Truth
By Reed W. Smith
Reviewed by Michael J. Socolow

Digital Media Reviews

Lantern
Reviewed by Naeemah Clark

Archive of American Television
Reviewed by Will Mari

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Review by Jon Marshall

Endnotes

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Volume 35, No. 3, 2018

Editor’s Note                                                         

Articles

The Accidental Press Critic: Newsroom Ethnography and Resistance to Self-Criticism and Management Change at the New York Times in 1974
By Kevin M. Lerner

The Life Cycle and Conventions of Nineteenth-Century Breaking News: Disaster Reporting of the 1875 Virginia City Fire
By Katrina M. Quinn

Poor Richard Revised: Benjamin Franklin and the Ritual Economy of Copyright in Colonial America
By Jason Lee Guthrie

Reading Helen Jewett’s Murder: The Historiographical Problems and Promises of Journalism
By Michael Buozis

PROFESSIONAL NOTES

It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over: Ending (?) the Narrative about the Chicago Tribune and the Battle of Midway
Michael S. Sweeney and Patrick S. Washburn

BOOK REVIEWS

Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech
By Eric B. Easton
Reviewed by Patrick C. File

Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
By Julia Guarneri
Reviewed by Paula Hunt

Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
By Derek Vaillant
Reviewed by Don Flournoy

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press Carol McCabe Booker, ed.
Reviewed by Aleen J. Ratzlaff

Future Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History
By Kathleen Hansen and Nora Paul
Reviewed by Wallace B. Eberhard

Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
By Fred Carroll
Reviewed by Bill Kovarik

The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction
By Nora M. Alter
Reviewed by Thomas A. Mascaro

We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss
By Kathleen Wickham
Reviewed by Erika J. Pribanic-Smith

DIGITAL MEDIA REVIEWS

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Reviewed by Mary Spillman

Roy W. Howard Archive
Reviewed by Julien Gorbach

Museum of Broadcast Communications
Reviewed by Len O’Kelly

ENDNOTES

 

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Volume 35, No. 4, 2018

Editor’s Note                                                         

Articles                                                                                                                      

Who is Nicholas Stanford? The New York Times Music Critic and his Secret Role in the Rise of the “Liberal Media” Claim
By Sid Bedingfield

The March of Time Radio Docudrama: Time Magazine, BBDO, and Radio Sponsors, 1931–39
By Cynthia B. Meyers

Heritage and Hate: Constructing Identity in the Raleigh News and Observer’s Progressive-Era Coverage of the Ku Klux Klan
By P. Brooks Fuller

“Watchdog” Journalists and “Shyster” Lawyers:  Analyzing Legal Reform Discourse in the Journalistic Trade Press, 1895–1899
By Patrick C. File

Professional Notes

Functionalist Explanations in Media Histories: A Historiographical Essay
By Tim P. Vos

Book Reviews

Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules
By Randall S. Sumpter
Reviewed by Dean Jobb       

Kentucky’s Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis
By Craig Berry
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Smith

They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression
By Melita M. Garza
Reviewed by Mary M. Cronin

 The Untold Story of Smoketown, the Other Great Black Renaissance
By Mark Whitaker
Reviewed by Wayne Dawkins

How Student Journalists Report Campus Unrest
By Kaylene Dial Armstrong
Reviewed by Sheryl Kennedy Haydel 

The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit vs. The Press 1833-1923
By Ronald Rodgers
Reviewed by Anthony Hatcher

Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball’s Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
By Edmund F. Wehrle
Reviewed by Raymond McCaffrey

Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
By Felix Harcourt
Reviewed by Andris Straumanis

Digital Media Reviews

NYS Historic Newspapers
Reviewed by Rob Wells

Deception for Journalism’s Sake: A Database
Reviewed by Samantha Peko

The American Folklife Center Archive
Reviewed by Pamela E. Walck

Endnotes

Thanks to Reviewers