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Volume 41, No. 3, Summer 2024
Summer Issue
Lisa Mullikin Parcell and Paul Myers 

Volume 41, No. 2, Spring 2024
Spring Issue
Patrick Walters

Volume 41, No. 1, Winter 2024
Winter Issue
Madeleine Liseblad and Greg Pitts

Volume 40, No. 4, Fall 2023
Fall Issue
Erika J. Pribanic-Smith

Volume 40, No. 3, Summer 2023
Summer Issue
Melissa Greene-Blye and John Bickers

Volume 40, No. 2 Spring 2023
Spring Issue
Ayla Oden and John Maxwell Hamilton

Volume 40, No. 1 Winter 2023
Winter Issue
Dr. Paula Hunt

Volume 39, No. 4 Fall 2022
Fall Issue
Joseph Campbell

Volume 39, No. 3 Summer 2022
Summer Issue
Dr. E. James West

Volume 39, No. 2 Spring 2022
Spring Issue
The Flag Unfurled: The Negotiation of Civil War Memory in Confederate Displays 

Volume 39, No. 1 Winter 2022
Winter Issue
Fred Carroll, Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

Volume 38, No. 4 Fall 2021
Fall Issue
Amelia Bloomer, The Lily, and Early Feminist Discourse in the US

Volume 38, No. 3 Summer 2021
Summer Issue
Elizabeth Fondren explores the history of international journalism, government propaganda, military-media relations, and freedom of speech during wartime.

Volume 38, No. 2 Spring 2021
Spring Issue 
Susan E. Swanberg on her article about E.W. Scripps and his creation of the Science Service News-Letter.

Volume 38, No. 1 Winter 2021
Winter Issue
Bailey Dick on the traumatic past of journalism legend Dorothy Day, the importance of historical perspective, and the role of objectivity in journalistic practice. 

Volume 37, No. 4 Fall 2020
Fall Issue
Laurel Leff on Edward R. Murrow’s reporting of the Holocaust.

Volume 37, No. 3 Summer 2020
Summer Issue
Madeleine Liseblad on the marketization of television news in the United Kingdom, starting in the 1990s.

Volume 37, No. 2, 2020
Spring Issue
Matthew Pressman on profanity and the press. 

Volume 37, No. 1, 2020
Winter Issue
Kathleen Wickham on Eyes on the Prize

Volume 36, No. 4, 2019
Fall Issue
Stephen Bates on Prejudice and the Press

Volume 36, No. 3, 2019
Summer Issue
Cindy Elmore on Terry Pettus 

Volume 36, No. 2, 2019
Spring Issue
Matthew Cecil on the CIA’s use of public relations

Volume 35, No. 4, 2018
Fall Issue
Cynthia Meyers on The March of Time

Volume 35, No. 3, 2018
Summer Issue
Kevin M. Lerner on newsroom ethnography

Volume 35, No. 2, 2018
Spring Issue
Thomas A. Mascaro on engaged journalism, then and now

Volume 35, No. 1, 2018
Winter Issue
A. J. Bauer on the overlooked history of right-wing media critiques

Volume 34, No. 4, 2017
Fall Issue
Candi Carter Olson on World War II correspondent Ruth Cowan

Volume 34, No. 3, 2017
Summer Issue
William Gillis on the “liberal news media” critique