The Journalism History podcast celebrated its first birthday earlier this month and recognized it with a cake at AJHA. The podcast has been downloaded in 47 states and 49 countries and has officially reached 4,000 downloads.
By Teri Finneman, University of Kansas, History Division Chair, teri.finneman@ku.edu
The History Division officers and the staff of our Journalism History journal are working this year on a marketing campaign to better promote the journal and journalism history more broadly.
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The steering committee of the 27th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression invites all CLIO readers to attend this year’s conference in Chattanooga, November 7-9. The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga communication department, the Walter and Leona Schmitt Family Foundation Research Fund, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium, and because of this sponsorship, no registration fee will be charged. If you are interested in attending, please contact David Sachsman at david-sachsman@utc.edu. Additional information is available at www.utc.edu/west-chair-communication/symposium/index.php .
By Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Lillie Fears (Arkansas State) was named coordinator of the Multimedia Journalism Program in the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University.
Teri Finneman (Kansas), Candi Carter Olson (Utah State) and Jinx Broussard (Louisiana State) discussed suffrage history at the Bob Dole Institute of Politics in September during the launch event for KU’s celebration of the 19th Amendment.
Nick Hirshon (William Paterson) learned that the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists that he founded and advises was named the Outstanding Campus Chapter in the northeastern United States, placing above every other student chapter in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, central and eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The distinction placed the William Paterson Society of Professional Journalists among ten finalists under contention for the most Outstanding Campus Chapter in the nation.
Julie Lane (Boise State) published a book chapter titled, “”Cultivating Distrust of Mainstream Media: Propagandists for a Liberal Machine and the American Establishment.” The chapter is featured in Oxford University Press’ News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures, edited by Anthony Nadler and A.J. Bauer.
Jon Marshall (Northwestern) had an op-ed, “Like Watergate All Over Again? In Some Ways, Yes, but There Are Stark Differences,” published Sept. 25 in the Chicago Tribune.
The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota hosted a symposium in September for scholars contributing to an edited collection on journalism and the rise of Jim Crow in the New South. The book project, co-edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, examines the various ways newspaper editors and publishers exerted influence and shaped outcomes in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Forde says the book will “document the substantive role of the white press in actively building, nurturing, and protecting the white supremacist political economies and social orders that emerged in the region.” The book will also highlight the struggle by black leaders who used the tools of mass media to fight these oppressive new regimes. “We envision this collection as part of the growing effort among historians to reconsider the political role of news media during times of change,” Bedingfield said. “Historians rely on news outlets as sources of information about political change, but they frequently ignore the specific and substantive roles that journalists and other media figures played in fostering that change.”
By Teaching Standards Co-Chairs Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, aroessne@utk.edu, and Kristin L. Gustafson, University of Washington Bothell, gustaf13@u.washington.edu
As AEJMC’s History Division teaching standard co-chairs, we would like to share our two primary goals for the year ahead. First, we want to highlight the best practices in history pedagogy with a special focus on pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community and justice. And second, we hope to advocate nationally and internationally for the importance of historically informed students across journalism and mass communication curricula. To that end, we will focus on orchestrating the second-annual Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History contest and on implementing a new salon venture focused on spreading the word about the importance of historically informed students across journalism and mass communication curricula.
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Do you have an innovative idea or best practice for transformative teaching? We are seeking entries for the Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History, a teaching-idea competition sponsored by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The competition, founded in 2019, will acknowledge and share best practices publicly that we as journalism educators and media historians use in classrooms. Winning entries receive a $75 prize.
Continue readingBy Perry Parks, Michigan State University, Membership Co-Chair, parksp@msu.edu
Teresa Mastin
Where you work: Michigan State University, Department of Advertising and Public Relations , Professor and Chairperson
Where you got your Ph.D.: Michigan State University, 1998
Current favorite class: All classes that allow myself and the students to connect by way of our past, present, and future, which is essentially every class I teach. I appreciate that infusing these concepts into each course helps us to think well beyond those of us in the room. I am currently teaching Contemporary Issues in Advertising (and Public Relations)
Current research project: The one that is most timely is revisiting two articles that myself and colleagues published in 2004 and 2005 that explored slavery reparation.
Fun fact about yourself: I am double middle child, that is, the fourth child of eight and the middle of the the girls. I am a classic middle child.
Continue readingBy Brandon Storlie, Graduate Student Co-Liaison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, bstorlie@wisc.edu
Dr. James Kates is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s College of Arts and Communication, where he teaches classes in media history, media law, digital journalism, writing, reporting and editing. A longtime journalist with degrees from both Michigan State University (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A.), Kates served in editing roles at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer before earning a doctorate in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. His primary research interests include natural-resources conservation and environmental issues.
Kates published the book Planning a Wilderness, a historical account of the crusade to restore the Great Lakes cutover region, in 2001.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Dr. Aimee Edmondson, an associate professor and graduate director at Ohio University, recently wrote a book titled “In Sullivan’s Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle.”
Q: Describe the focus of your book.
A: The far right has long sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free speech and silence African American dissent. In Sullivan’s Shadow demonstrates that this strategy was pursued throughout American history, as southern public officials filed scores of lawsuits in their attempts to intimidate journalists who published accounts of police brutality against civil rights protestors. Taking the Supreme Court’s famous 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan as my starting point, I work to illuminate a series of often astounding libel cases that preceded and followed this historic ruling.
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