In 1860 the price increased and the Beetons directed their journal to a wealthier readership. Introduction In...
Journalism
Thompson was a complicated person who doesn’t reduce well to a type. Peter Richardson has written critically...
The first real colonial newspaper was the New England Courant, published as a sideline by printer James...
Fake stories have grown more sophisticated, often presented to look like a legitimate news organization. Introduction Fake...
Examining the lengthy history of print journalism in America to provide a context for understanding the digital...
“The extremely high number of journalists in arbitrary detention is the work of three dictatorial regimes.” Reporters...
The local media outlets and workers in Hong Kong face even greater challenges and pressures than their...
Free and independent media are fighting the battle of their lives, but for some, their defenses are...
Creative Commons licensing is a smart way to distribute local or national content when the goal is...
Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to...
How did news organizations in the U.S. heartland survive – and even thrive – through the pandemic?...
How can historians help us overcome our biases and polarization? Bias–an “attitude held towards a person or group...
The best op-ed pages operate like a town square, allowing readers to discuss and debate issues important...
Movies and songs about newsboys proliferated during the period. By Dr. Vincent DiGirolamoAssociate Professor of HistoryBaruch CollegeCity...
The accusation of bias is like kryptonite for responsible news organizations. Introduction When the Associated Press fired...
No other large media organization in the United States leans on its protections like Fox News. By...
In the quest for increased readership, newspaper editors began to publish sensational headlines and lurid stories. By...
In 1556, the government of Venice first published the monthly Notizie scritte (“Written notices”), which cost one...
News organizations encouraged interaction between their journalists and audience members. Is that the best way to build...
Advertising has always been about tapping into consumers’ existing needs or about creating a need and inserting...
“Fake news” and disinformation have been part of the conversation as far back as the birth of...
Trump seized on the opportunity to win their confidence and blind loyalty in spite of being the...
Could Substack remind news consumers that paying for journalism is worth it? If you haven’t heard of...
Restoring trust in journalism is a necessary step to rebuilding our fractured republic. The ugly message “Murder...
Time, like place, is socially constructed rather than ‘natural’, and so one might expect ideas of time...
These reading places confirmed the centrality of periodical print to Victorian culture. Introduction We need to know...
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...