These reading places confirmed the centrality of periodical print to Victorian culture. Introduction We need to know...
Journalism
Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook Trump’s incitements. Introduction In...
Violence, corruption, and murder dominate our modern headlines, Little has changed since execution ballads in sixteenth-century Europe....
The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about. In 1869, an odd...
Each local-news closure will cut into our democracy in ways that may prove fatal. By Tim Karr...
Grady wanted to promote northern investment in the South, and he was willing to ignore lynchings and...
The Wasp meted out ridicule to a myriad of caricatured subjects, from senators and presidents to Chinese...
It severely affected public opinion in favor of war and further energized a war-weary public in England....
George Washington tired of those he called “infamous scribblers”. By Harlow Giles Unger “American Nation Debauched by...
Journalism’s crisis – loss of readers, revenue and respect – has led many to conclude that if...
There are lessons to be learned from this story. In October 1924, during the general election campaign...
What would happen if journalists spoke up more in defense of their profession, while simultaneously also testing...
White House Press Corps, 1918 In light of the relationship between the press and the president, the James...
Creative Commons At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics. By Dr....
Exploring a deeper interrogation of the relationship between technology, historical scholarship, and more presentist social science. By Dr....
Recasting studies of communication in terms of a ritual model. By Dr. James W. Carey Communication Theorist, Former Professor...
At the dawn of the 17th century, early newspapers began to replace oral news. 10.28.2012 Theory behind...
A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of his cabin in Concord, Massachusetts. Chris...
A traveler reads a newspaper. AP Photo/Julio Cortez Researchers set out across four cities to ask the...
Despite being largely forgotten today, Lowell Thomas was a pioneering journalist of the 20th century who reshaped...
The fact that these were kept secret during the Obama administration is cause for great concern. (Photo:...
Dr. Benjamin Rush The first attacks on Rush followed the outbreak of a devastating yellow fever epidemic...
Jefferson’s faith in free presses was ultimately faith in the people with a moral sensibility sufficient to...
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 –...
Photo by Jon S, Flickr, Creative Commons Among all Americans, only a third (33%) agree the news...
The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right. Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress An executive...
Horace Greeley, between about 1860 and 1865. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration It’s easy to think...
Various aspects needed to be considered when understanding harassment online / Image by Willowbl00, Wikimedia Commons The...
Getty Images The deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper is a reminder that some Americans have come...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.03.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Pop Culture Mania Figure 1.1: Just as...