The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has selected the winner of its award honoring the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2025. It is Tom Arnold-Forster’s Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press, 2025).
The committee of judges – Drs. Kathryn McGarr, Will Mari, David T. Z. Mindich (chair), and Cristina Mislan—selected the book after considering many quality entries.
Dr. Arnold-Forster is the Kinder Career Development Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University.
The judges were impressed with the book’s deeply researched intellectual history, stellar writing, and overall brilliance. One judge wrote that Arnold-Forster’s book is “the intellectual biography that we thought we didn’t need, but really do, in this age of global uncertainty.”
The winner will receive a plaque and a cash prize and will be recognized during the division’s business meeting on Thursday, August 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the 2026 AEJMC National Convention in New Orleans. An off-site social will follow the business meeting.