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
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