By Nathaniel Frederick II, PF&R Chair, frederickn@winthrop.edu
Creating a news literacy event in your community or on your campus is an ideal opportunity to promote and justify why journalism history matters.
The PF&R committee for 2019-2020 will emphasize diversity and inclusion, as well as offer assistance to members interested in creating public service events that help celebrate journalism history.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Dr. Michael Fuhlhage, an assistant professor at Wayne State University, recently wrote a book titled Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War.
Q: Describe the focus of your book.
A: Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War. This book tells the story of the Yankee reporters who risked their lives by going undercover in hostile places that became the Confederate States of America. It shows that by observing the secession movement and sending reports for publication in Northern newspapers, they armed the Union with intelligence about the enemy that civil and military leaders used to inform their decisions in order to contain damage and answer the movement to break the Union apart and establish a separate slavery-based nation in the South.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Jon Bekken’s (Albright College) co-authored chapter, “Spanish Firemen and Maritime Syndicalism, 1902-1940,” appears in Christopher J. Castaneda and Montse Feu, editors, Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. University of Illinois Press, 2019. The chapter explores the weekly newspaper Culture Obrera and its role in sustaining a union of marine firemen and their immigrant community. He presented a paper, “Participatory Journalism & Democratic Communication in the Working-Class Press,” to the Labor and Working Class History Association’s annual conference in May 2019, and reviewed Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in the most recent Journalism History 45:4. His entry on “Unions of Newsworkers” appears in the International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, edited byTim Vos and Folker Hanusch (Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2019). And a commentary, “Restoring Labor to the Public Sphere,” is scheduled to appear in the next Journalism & Communication Monographs.
Jinx Broussard (Louisiana State University) and Sheryl Kennedy Haydel (Louisiana State University) along with Shaniece Bickham (Nicholls State University) will present their research “Framing an Acceptable Image: The Political Campaigns of Four of America’s First Black Mayors” at the 2020 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference. The study examines the mayoral campaigns of the first black mayors in four major U.S. cities to determine how their images were cultivated on the campaign trail and the extent to which the race of their selected press secretaries influenced their ability to be more palatable to white citizenry. The conference will take place on March 14 at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) is attending Podcast Movement in February in Los Angeles to learn more tricks for marketing the Journalism History podcast. The conference is a major event for the podcasting industry and will include sessions on livestreaming, monetizing podcasts, podcast listeners and transcription.
On Feb. 29, Will Mari (Louisiana State University) will be giving a talk on his book, “A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies: 1960-1990” (Routledge, 2019) which covers the computerization of the American newsroom during the latter Cold War. The talk will take place at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington.
David T. Z. Mindich (Temple University) published his third book, “The Mediated World: A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). The Mediated World departs from other mass communication textbooks by emphasizing history (including pre-printing press) narrative, diversity issues, and media literacy.
Founder and director Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez’s (University of Texas) Voces Oral History Project is now officially a Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This signals permanence – so that the oral histories will live on (vocesoralhistoryproject.org). Voces celebrated its 20th anniversary in November 2019. It has video recorded over 1,250 interviews and has over 10,000 digitized photographs and other documentation. Its physical archives are held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the UT-Austin Campus. Collections include the Latina/o WWII, Korean and Vietnam eras; Political and Civic Engagement; Professions. The Voces Oral History Summer Institute will be held June 8-12, 2020, on the University of Texas campus.This workshop is for faculty and graduate students wishing to use oral history in research and teaching. Instructors have created oral history projects, published widely using oral history, and are leaders in oral history publishing and teaching. Applications accepted through March 9, 2020. Visit vocessummerinstitute.org for more information.
Kimberly Wilmot Voss (University of Central Florida) will be participating in Beacon College Salon Series on Jan. 22. Her talk is titled “Politicking Politely: Well-behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s.”
By Perry Parks, Michigan State University, Membership Co-Chair, parksp@msu.edu
Ed Adams
Where do you work: Brigham Young University
Where you got your Ph.D.: Ohio University
Current favorite class: Currently serving as Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. I don’t get much opportunity to teach.
Current research project: Dabbling with a couple of Public Relations History projects.
Fun fact: I really like mowing my lawn.
Continue readingAEJMC’s History Division has several open calls, including the newly announced Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award. Below is a list with links to each current open call.
Awards
Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History – Deadline Feb. 1
Hazel Dicken-Garcia Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Journalism and Mass Communication History – Deadline Feb. 1
Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book – Deadline Feb. 1
Covert Award – Deadline March 1
Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award – Deadline March 15
Positions
Editor, Journalism History – Deadline Feb. 15
AEJMC Conference
San Francisco 2020 AEJMC Conference Paper Competition – Deadline April 1
The $200 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in 2019. Book chapters in edited collections also may be submitted.
The award recognizes the late Catherine L. Covert, professor of public communications at Syracuse University and former head of the History Division.
An electronic copy in pdf form of the published article/essay/chapter should be submitted via email to Professor Sheila Webb, sheila.webb@wwu.edu, by March 1, 2020. The publication may be self-submitted or submitted by others, such as an editor or colleague.
The History Division invites submission of original research papers on all aspects of media history for the AEJMC 2020 conference in San Francisco. All research methodologies are welcome.
Papers will be evaluated on originality and importance of topic; literature review; clarity of research purpose; focus; use of evidence to support the paper’s purpose and conclusions; and the degree to which the paper contributes to the field of journalism and mass communication history.
Continue readingThis new History Division honor will recognize an individual for excellence in journalism history research who has a minimum 15-year academic career and a record of division membership.
To apply, the nomination packet should include a cover letter that explains the nominee’s research contributions to journalism history, a CV, a brief biography, and a minimum of two letters of support. Self-nominations, with the accompanying supporting materials, are welcome. Letters may be addressed to Committee Chair Pam Parry.
Email nominations to aejmchistory@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. Central Time March 15.
The winner will be notified by mid-May and recognized during the History Division Awards Gala at the 2020 AEJMC conference in August with a plaque and $200 cash award.
The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce the creation of the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award, named in honor of the pioneering journalism theoretician, distinguished journalism historian, and former head of the History Division, who taught for almost half of a century at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
The History Division officers unanimously voted to name the award after Shaw with the support of the full leadership team.
“I am deeply honored by the recognition of my historical work, and for recognition of historical work in general,” Shaw said. “We cannot understand ourselves without knowledge of our roots, individually or collectively. I am delighted with any acknowledgement of the many fine scholars we have in our historical discipline. Thank you for this honor.”
Continue readingBy Denitsa Yotova, Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland
Dr. Tom Mascaro recently retired from his position as professor in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University. Mascaro is a documentary historian who is currently working on a sequel to his highly acclaimed book, Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2012). Into the Fray won the 2013 AEJMC James W. Tankard Award for Best Book on Journalism and received an honorable mention from AJHA. Into the Fray covered 1961 to 1967; Mascaro’s new manuscript will span 1967 to 1989.
