1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to American Journalism History
The Routledge Companion to American Journalism History revisits media history across forms, formats, and multiple fault lines, including gender, ethnicity, race, and citizenship status.
Original contributions highlight areas of journalism history in desperate need of further treatment, with a special focus on diversity, equity, and accountability. Sections cover the early origins and development of journalism in the United States, pivotal moments and personalities in various strands of journalism, underrepresented groups and formats in journalism history, and key issues in "doing" journalism history. Authors aim to fill in the gaps left by traditional historical narratives by examining overlooked subjects, such as labor reporting, and overdue theoretical perspectives, such as intersectionality. Collectively, the voices in this book offer a more inclusive paradigm for the field.
Written by a range of recognized journalism scholars, both well-established and emerging, this collection offers a thought-provoking starting point for researchers and advanced students seeking a critical understanding of American journalism history as conceived in the current era.
Introduction
Part I
The U.S. Press: Evolution and Key Areas
Chapter 1: Five Ages: Rethinking Historical Eras of American Journalism
Thomas . Terry
Chapter 2: The Press in the Civil War
Debra Reddin Van Tuyll
Chapter 3: Freedom of the Press from What?": An Analysis of How The Quill Contrasts Free Press Ideals and Practices in the United States and Abroad
Erin K. Coyle and Annette Masterson
Chapter 4: A Genealogy of Newsroom Diversity: The Hutchins Commission, the Kerner Commission, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Gwyneth Mellinger
Chapter 5: Presenting Journalism as ‘Destiny’: Textbooks as Sites of Journalism History
Perry Parks
Part II
Conflict, Truth, Power & Politics
Chapter 6: War Reporting, Propaganda, and Truth
Elisabeth Fondren and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard
Chapter 7: The Black Press and the Fight for Equality
Shaniece B. Bickham and Jinx Coleman Broussard
Chapter 8: Boxing Heroes of the Twentieth-Century Black Press: Beyond the "Color Line" Trope
Carrie Teresa
Chapter 9: The Press and the Presidency: How the Executive Branch Legitimizes the Fourth Estate
Pam Parry
Chapter 10: Journalism and Moral Courage
Melita M. Garza
Part III
Investigative, Business, and Accountability Journalism History
Chapter 11:, Id[e]as "Like Magic" in the Margins: Ida B. Wells, Ida Tarbell, and the Agency in Investigative Journalism
Lori Amber Roessner
Chapter 12: Labor Journalism History: The Missing Story of Workers
Christopher R. Martin
Chapter 13: Women in Business Journalism History
Melony Shemberger and Melita M. Garza
Chapter 14: The Importance of Business Journalism in American Journalism and Business History
Chris Roush
Chapter 15: Media Culpa: News Organizations’ Apologies for Complicity in Systemic Racism
Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins
Part IV
Broadcast and Documentary Journalism
Chapter 16: Key Issues in Broadcast News History
Mike Conway
Chapter 17: Radio News in Journalism History
Michael J. Socolow
Chapter 18: Transnational Research and Television History
Madeleine Liseblad
Chapter 19: Documentary Journalism History
Thomas Mascaro
Part V
Women in Journalism History
Chapter 20: Women in Journalism History
Maurine H/ Beasley
Chapter 21: From Bloomers to Bombshells: Women Journalists as Spectacle
Tracy Lucht
Chapter 22: The Troubles with the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement: A Black Feminist Critique of Ethel L. Payne’s Reportage
Cristina Mislán
Chapter 23: The Women’s Pages: Sites of Tradition and Social Change
Kimberly Wilmot Voss
Chapter 24: From Garber to Kimes: The Evolution of the Female Sports Journalist in the U.S.
Molly Yanity
Part VI
Alternative Media and Underrepresented Groups in Journalism History
Chapter 25: Examining Alternative Media
Kevin M. Lerner
Chapter 26: Case Study in Alternative Media: Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, and Uncovering Religion in Journalism History
Bailey Dick
Chapter 27: Mainstream Journalism and the Black Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States
Sid Bedingfield
Chapter 28: The Immigrant Press: Building Community, Giving Voice
Jon Bekken and Melita M. Garza
Chapter 29: Finding the First Americans in American Journalism History
Melissa Greene-Blye
Chapter 30: Let’s Pull Together’": A Story of Filipina/o/x American Journalism
Celeste González de Bustamante
Chapter 31: The News Media and the Myth of the Mexican Miscreant
Michael Fuhlhage
Part VII
Underrepresented Formats in Journalism History
Chapter 32: The Country Press: Historical Challenges
Beth Garfrerick
Chapter 33: Student Journalism History: Essential Reporting
Kaylene Dial Armstrong
Chapter 34: Community Radio: Agents of Change
Noah Arceneaux
Part VIII
Changing Forms of Journalism History
Chapter 35: A Call to Action: Newspaper Digitization and American Journalism History
Julien Gorbach
Chapter 36: A Place for Media Historians to Publish: Journalism History and American Journalism
Pamela E. Walck and Pam Parry
Chapter 37: The Changing Story of the Life Story
Marilyn Greenwald
Chapter 38: The Journalism History Podcast
Nicholas Hirshon, Ken Ward, and Teri Finneman
Part IX
Theory, Concepts, and Historiography
Chapter 39: Theory, Concepts, and Historiography: An Overview
Tim P. Vos
Chapter 40: Cultural and Critical Approaches to US Journalism History
John Nerone
Chapter 41: Journalism, History, and the Contorted Nature of Memory
Janice Hume
Chapter 42: Fake News, Truth, and Democracy
Erika Pribanic-Smith
Chapter 43: Remaking Journalism History: Issues of Progress, Presence, and Position
Carolyn Kitch
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Melita M. Garza is an associate professor and the Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. She is a media historian focusing on journalism and democracy, and marginalized groups.
Michael Fuhlhage is an associate professor of journalism and communication at Wayne State University. He researches media history concentrating on racial representation, the genesis of stereotypes about Latina/os in the nineteenth-century press, and open-source intelligence during the American Civil War.
Tracy Lucht is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, where she studies the history of women in the media.
