Jon Bekken (Albright College) was promoted to full professor of communications. His entry on “Unions of Newsworkers” is forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. His article on “Incorporating Class into the Journalism and Mass Communication Curriculum” appears in the new issue of Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication 8(1), and his “Toward a Democratic Journalism” will appear in the next The American Historian as part of a special section on journalism and democracy.

Melita M. Garza (Texas Christian University) was featured on CSPAN Book TV, in June discussing her new book They Came to Toil Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression.

Jennifer Moore (University of Minnesota-Duluth) was selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholars program, Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath, a two-week summer institute (July 9-20, 2018) in New York City. The instituted focused “on the era’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments—to examine how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ views on both sides of and before and after the conflict,” according to the NEH website. Participants engaged in lectures by noted historians, art historians, and archivists and attended hands-on sessions in major museums and archives.

Randall S. Sumpter’s (Texas A&M) Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules recently was published by the University of Missouri Press. Sumpter’s volume uses a community of practice model to describe and to organize the many ways used by late nineteenth century reporters to master the basics of journalism.

Carol Terracina-Hartman (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) recently was honored with AEJMC’s magazine division’s top paper award for “Love Your Mother: How One Magazine Defined and Refined Environmental Journalism.” She also presented “News and Numbers: Big Data Reporting on a College Campus,” at the College Media Association’s National Conference in Dallas, Texas, where she was a top-three finalist for the College Media Association’s Award of Distinction. Terracina-Hartman also co-authored “Policy, economic themes dominate ethanol headlines” published in Newspaper Research Journal 38(1): 119-133.