Jefferson’s faith in free presses was ultimately faith in the people with a moral sensibility sufficient to...
Journalism
Journalism records public life while shaping how events are understood. Explore the reporters and institutions that developed news gathering while confronting censorship and political pressure.
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...
Leo Frank, 1884-1915. Library of Congress Online Catalog, Prints and Photographs Division Fake news has been used in the past to feed into...
Photo by Jon S, Creative Commons By Dr. Richard Fletcher (left) and Nic Newman (right) Fletcher:...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.03.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Pop Culture Mania Figure 1.1: Just as...
German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Petra S. McGillen / 04.,05.2017 Assistant Professor of...
Dr. Pickard points out that the news media’s primary goal is not to distribute information to the...
By Dr. Jürgen WilkeProfessor of Journalism and CommunicationsJohannes Gutenberg University Introduction Censorship as a means of controlling communication has...
Combined image of Beer Street and Gin Lane, by William Hogarth / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Klaus-Dieter Ertler / 06.28.2012...
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress By...
One of the most notorious fake news websites in the United States published a fake news story...
‘When you look back on it, where else would those articles appear? The Saturday Evening Post?’ Nick Lehr/The...
Telling-tales; a comet above Augsburg in 1618. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Bland / 10.30.2017 Visiting...
From Rowlandson’s ‘Characteristics of the Lower Orders’, 1820. / The British Library By Dr. Una McIlvenna /...
At the time of his inauguration, George Washington was described in almost universally glorified terms by the national presses....
Statue of Thomas Jefferson / Photo by Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Ruth Finnegan Emeritus...
German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Petra S. McGillen / 04.05.2017 Assistant Professor...
How can students think critically about information in today’s age? UBC Library Communications/flickr By Donald A. Barclay...
By Ballard Burgher / 12.15.2016 Wisconsin conservative radio host Charlie Sykes goes off on right-wing insanity in...
By Jackie Calmes / 07.27.2015 A paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national...
By Dr. Thomas E. Patterson / 12.07.2016 Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Harvard University A...
12.04.2016 Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been...
Illustration by Todd Wiseman / The Texas Tribune Post-election criticism of the news media is on point...
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots...
King Trump Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has continuously complained about coverage from The New...