How can historians help us overcome our biases and polarization? Bias–an “attitude held towards a person or group...
Journalism
The daily deluge of information produced by the news media can drown consumers in confusion and anxiety....
Restrictions on cinema were folded into a more complex global matrix of censorship, lies, and selective truth-telling....
The best op-ed pages operate like a town square, allowing readers to discuss and debate issues important...
The accusation of bias is like kryptonite for responsible news organizations. Introduction When the Associated Press fired...
Lovejoy belonged to a small fraternity of editor who used their printing presses in the decades before...
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...
How evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs) can influence the mass media and contribute to social and...
“Fake news” and disinformation have been part of the conversation as far back as the birth of...
The main agenda for the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of...
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...
Starting from the reader rather than the text allows a new picture of nineteenth-century reading to emerge....
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...
There is something of Walter Isaacson in the people he writes about. If the great values of...
How Parker’s determination to speak her mind — even when it angered men in positions of power...
Whether you are into writing and need polishing your style, or you are a newbie trying to...
Investigating an early 19th-century meme in the press to criticize the corrupt and repressive policies of King...
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”. In this and like communities, public sentiment is...
George Washington tired of those he called “infamous scribblers”. By Harlow Giles Unger “American Nation Debauched by...
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of...
W.T. Stead’s 1885 account of the process by which wealthy Londoners procured teenagers for sex became a...
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”...
The journalist’s witty Paris Letters for the New Yorker helped establish Americans’ feelings of superiority over Europe....
Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. In 1921, New Yorker Rosie...
When ABC brought William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal together, the media became more interested in...
Remembering what one of last century’s most courageous Jewish journalists taught us. By Peter Dreier In this...