Amber Roessner, an associate professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media, appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of the PBS documentary series In Their Own Words, speaking about Jimmy Carter’s failed first gubernatorial campaign. The episode, “Jimmy Carter,” which aired on September 28, can be streamed here on PBS.

Andrew E. Stoner, an associate professor in Communication Studies at California State University, Sacramento, is the author of a new book Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists & Homosexuality in America (McFarland Publishing, July 2021). The book examines the role newspaper advice columnists played in advancing understanding and acceptance of LGBTQ people in the twentieth century.

Owen V. Johnson, an associate professor emeritus of Journalism at Indiana University, has a new article, “The Pullman Herald 1888-1989:  A History and a Memoir” in Bunchgrass Historian  (Vol. 47, no. 2), a publication of the Whitman County Historical Society.