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Generation of Scholars: Marilyn Greenwald is Passionate About Writing Journalism History and Biography

By Ashley Walter, Ph.D. student at the Pennsylvania State University

Ohio University professor, Marilyn Greenwald, began her journalism career in the late 1970s working as an entertainment editor and copy editor in Painesville, Ohio. She went on to report business and news for the Columbus Dispatch before starting an academic career. Her research examines media history, arts criticism, biographical writing, non-fiction book publishing, and women in journalism. She has written several books and academic articles, including A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism, and the Career of Charlotte Curtis.

Marilyn Greenwald
Dr. Marilyn Greenwald’s dissertation centered on Charlotte Curtin, one of the first women top editors at the New York Times. Greenwald turned her dissertation into a biography; it got a review in the New York Times and was named a Notable Book of the Times in 1999.
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Integrating Journalism History into News Literacy

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.

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Nominations Are Now Open for the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award

This 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. 

AEJMC History Division Announces Shaw Senior Scholar 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.

Dr. Donald L. Shaw

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.”

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Generation of Scholars: Tom Mascaro Discusses Documentary Films, Gives Advice to Young Scholars

By 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.  

Dr. Tom Mascaro has a Ph.D. from Wayne State University and a M.A. from the University of Michigan.
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Membership Committee Creates Priorities for Year

By Membership Co-Chairs Maddie Liseblad, Middle Tennessee State University, madeleine.liseblad@mtsu.edu, Rachel Grant, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu, and Perry Parks, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu

From left to right: Maddie Liseblad, Rachel Grant and Perry Parks.

As your 2019-2020 committee, we’d like to share our primary goals for this year. First and foremost, our overall goal is to grow our membership. We will continue our outreach work as opportunities arise. For example, when nonmembers present media history research at conferences, we reach out and invite them to join our division.

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Call for Editor – Journalism History

The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invites applications for editor of Journalism History. 

Adopted as the official journal of the History Division in 2018, Journalism History is well respected as the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States. Continuously published since 1974, this scholarly journal is a quarterly publication that features excellent scholarship on media history.  

The division seeks an editor to start in August 2020 as an apprentice to the current editor until the new editor’s three-and-a-half-year term commences in August 2021. The term is renewable.

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AEJMC History Division Announces Award Honoring Jinx Broussard

Dr. Jinx Broussard is a professor at Louisiana State University.

The AEJMC History Division is pleased to announce the creation of the Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History.

The History Division officers unanimously voted to name the award after Broussard with the support of the full leadership team.

“I am unbelievably honored to have my name associated with this award,” Broussard said. “I hope to continue inspiring students, teachers and scholars of media history to uncover the past and make sense of the role media have played and the impact they continue to make in our world.” 

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It’s a Podcast Celebration!

Podcast cake
The Journalism History podcast team: Will Mari, Nick Hirshon, Teri Finneman and Erika Pribanic-Smith.

The Journalism History podcast celebrated its first birthday earlier this month and recognized it with a cake at AJHA. The podcast has been downloaded in 47 states and 49 countries and has officially reached 4,000 downloads.