It’s that time of year again! AEJMC paper deadline is April 1st at 11:59 p.m. CDT. I want to go ahead and thank all of you who are submitting this year, and also want to thank those of you who are serving as reviewers for the History Division. If you are a reviewer and have questions about setting up your All Academic account please visit the following website: http://www.aejmc.org/home/2013/01/login-video/.
If you have any questions about the submission please do not hesitate to reach out to me or any member our executive team. Reviewers should also contact Dr. Rachel Grant (Florida), rgrant@jou.ufl.edu, with any issues regarding the review process.
While our executive team is still finalizing the plans for the August conference, members should note that our business meeting will occur prior to the conference. This year’s business meeting will be held virtually on July 28th at 1 p.m. EDT via Zoom. Look for an email from AEJMC with that information later in summer.
This month’s CLIO is filled with the amazing work of our members. Take a few minutes to review our member news and podcast recommendations. There is also a call for papers for the 30th Annual Symposium on the 19th Century, the Civil War and Free Expression.
Good luck to everyone with their AEJMC submissions!
Chris Lamb, chair of the journalism and public relations department at Indiana University-Indianapolis, will have his book, Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War, published on April 1 by the University of Nebraska Press. The book examines racial discrimination, the press, and youth baseball in South Carolina in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Contact Chris with any inquiries.
Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and communications at the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, University of Southern California, published “A 21st-Century Method of Teaching Media Ethics” in Media Ethics, The Magazine Serving Mass Communication Ethics, Fall 2021, Vol. 33, No. 1. In the article, he argues that our practices of teaching media ethics must change with the times. He explains how he uses film in new ways to teach journalism ethics. Saltzman also just published “The 20th-Century Image of the Journalist in Hallmark Films, 2000-2020,” in the IJPC Journal, a study of 360 films showing that there are more positive Black, Asian-American and female journalists in Hallmark films contradicting many of the stereotypes its conservative audience has of the news media.
UNC Press, partnered with Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, has published O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South by Berkley Hudson, associate professor emeritus of the Missouri School of Journalism. With explanatory essays, the book contains more than 190 photographs. Pruitt, a white photographer in the Jim Crow era of Mississippi, photographed a stunning range of Black and white community life, documenting the sublime and horrific. The book serves as a companion for a NEH-sponsored traveling exhibit. The New York Times Sunday Book Review has featured a full-page on the book. Smithsonian.com, and Garden and Gun likewise have run stories.
Will Mari, associate professor at Louisiana State University, has a new article out in Digital Journalism, “(Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s.” The article explores how design practices, including integrated forums, tabs, indexes and other early site design conventions—sometimes intentional, sometimes not— led to the first generation of online interactions between readers and news workers in the United States, and, to some degree, in the United Kingdom and Canada. Contact Will if you’d like him to send you the PDF.
Kathryn McGarr, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new article in Journalism: “‘The Right to Voice Your Opinions’: A Historical Case Study in Audience Members’ Emotional Hostility to Radio Journalists.” The article uses listener hate mail to radio reporters during a divisive moment—President Harry Truman’s removal of General Douglas MacArthur from his command in the Korean War in April 1951—to identify a politically rancorous discourse, aimed at the press. This period of high emotion for Americans provides a case study in audience members’ sometimes hostile relationship with journalists and does so at an early moment in the creation of a truly mass national news audience.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism, to which so many of our AEJMC History Division Members have contributed, has now been published! The volumes were edited by Gregory A. Borchard, professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Each month, Clio will highlight the latest episode of the Journalism History podcast and recommend a set of episodes from the archives. The podcasts — available on the website and through many podcast players — are excellent teaching tools, easy to add to your syllabi. Transcripts of each episode are available online.
This month’s focus is on wartime reporting, with episodes discussing conflicts both hot and cold, domestic and international.
Episode 92: Truth And Ideology Among Cold War Correspondents Historian Dina Fainberg explores the experiences of U.S. and Soviet foreign correspondents during the Cold War and the competing notions of truth they pursued in their reporting. She discusses some of the findings of her recent book, Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Front Lines, 1945-1991 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
Episode 74: The Great War Through the Lens Journalism professor Elisabeth Fondren joins the podcast to discuss the little known World War I photographer Percy Brown, who captured significant photojournalism history during his time in captivity in a prison camp after he was accused of being a spy. You can read more about Fondren’s work in her recent Journalism History article, “The Mirror with a Memory’: The Great War through the Lens of Percy Brown, British Correspondent and Photojournalist (1914-1920).”
Episode 60: Ernie Pyle, WWII, and Telling It Like It Is This episode covers the career of one of the most prominent war correspondents, Ernie Pyle. Owen Johnson discusses Pyle’s journey in journalism, from growing up in rural Indiana to his must-read journalism during World War II.
And check out the podcast’s episode on the unknown stories of the Titanic – the unsinkable ship slipped beneath the waters of the North Atlantic 110 years ago this month.
The steering committee of the thirtieth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression solicits papers dealing with US mass media of the 19th century, the Civil War in fiction and history, freedom of expression in the 19th century, presidents and the 19th century press, images of race and gender, sensationalism and crime in 19th century newspapers, and the antebellum press and the causes of the Civil War. Selected papers will be presented during the conference Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 3–5, 2022. The top three papers and the top three student papers will be honored accordingly.
The Symposium will be conducted via ZOOM (for both speakers and participants). If possible, it will also be conducted in person.
The purpose of the November conference is to share current research and to develop a series of monographs. This year the steering committee will pay special attention to papers and panel presentations on the Civil War and the press, presidents and the 19th century press, news reports of 19th century epidemics, coverage of immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans, and 19th century spiritualism and ghost stories. Since 2000, the Symposium has produced eight distinctly different books of readings: The Civil War and the Press (2000); Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain (2007); Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism (2008); Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press (2009); Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting (2013); A Press Divided: Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War (2014); After the War: The Press in a Changing America, 1865–1900 (2017); and The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War (2019). The panel presentations from the 2020 Symposium were recorded and aired on C-SPAN.
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. Papers should be able to be presented within 20 minutes, at least 10–15 pages long. Please send your paper (including a 200–300 word abstract) as a Word attachment to west-chair-office@utc.edu by August 26, 2022. We hope you will join us this year, and we hope you will invite your friends. We would appreciate it if you would duplicate and circulate our Call for Papers and poster to anyone who might be interested.
The History Division is holding a members’ business meeting via Zoom on Thursday, July 28 at 1 p.m. EDT. Look for an email invitation from AEJMC closer to the date.
