The Routledge Companion to American Journalism History

Melita M. Garza is an associate professor and the Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. She is a media historian focusing on journalism and democracy, and marginalized groups. Michael Fuhlhage is an associate professor of journalism and communication at Wayne State University. He researches media history concentrating on racial representation, the genesis of stereotypes about Latina/os in the nineteenth-century press, and open-source intelligence during the American Civil War. Tracy Lucht is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, where she studies the history of women in the media.

Introduction

Part I

The U.S. Press: Evolution and Key Areas

Chapter 1: Five Ages: Rethinking Historical Eras of American Journalism

Thomas . Terry

Chapter 2: The Press in the Civil War

Debra Reddin Van Tuyll

Chapter 3: Freedom of the Press from What?": An Analysis of How The Quill Contrasts Free Press Ideals and Practices in the United States and Abroad

Erin K. Coyle and Annette Masterson

Chapter 4: A Genealogy of Newsroom Diversity: The Hutchins Commission, the Kerner Commission, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors

Gwyneth Mellinger

Chapter 5: Presenting Journalism as ‘Destiny’: Textbooks as Sites of Journalism History

Perry Parks

Part II

Conflict, Truth, Power & Politics

Chapter 6: War Reporting, Propaganda, and Truth

Elisabeth Fondren and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard

Chapter 7: The Black Press and the Fight for Equality

Shaniece B. Bickham and Jinx Coleman Broussard

Chapter 8: Boxing Heroes of the Twentieth-Century Black Press: Beyond the "Color Line" Trope

Carrie Teresa

Chapter 9: The Press and the Presidency: How the Executive Branch Legitimizes the Fourth Estate

Pam Parry

Chapter 10: Journalism and Moral Courage

Melita M. Garza

Part III

Investigative, Business, and Accountability Journalism History

Chapter 11:, Id[e]as "Like Magic" in the Margins: Ida B. Wells, Ida Tarbell, and the Agency in Investigative Journalism

Lori Amber Roessner

Chapter 12: Labor Journalism History: The Missing Story of Workers

Christopher R. Martin

Chapter 13: Women in Business Journalism History

Melony Shemberger and Melita M. Garza

Chapter 14: The Importance of Business Journalism in American Journalism and Business History

Chris Roush

Chapter 15: Media Culpa: News Organizations’ Apologies for Complicity in Systemic Racism

Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins

Part IV

Broadcast and Documentary Journalism

Chapter 16: Key Issues in Broadcast News History

Mike Conway

Chapter 17: Radio News in Journalism History

Michael J. Socolow

Chapter 18: Transnational Research and Television History

Madeleine Liseblad

Chapter 19: Documentary Journalism History

Thomas Mascaro

Part V

Women in Journalism History

Chapter 20: Women in Journalism History

Maurine H/ Beasley

Chapter 21: From Bloomers to Bombshells: Women Journalists as Spectacle

Tracy Lucht

Chapter 22: The Troubles with the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement: A Black Feminist Critique of Ethel L. Payne’s Reportage

Cristina Mislán

Chapter 23: The Women’s Pages: Sites of Tradition and Social Change

Kimberly Wilmot Voss

Chapter 24: From Garber to Kimes: The Evolution of the Female Sports Journalist in the U.S.

Molly Yanity

Part VI

Alternative Media and Underrepresented Groups in Journalism History

Chapter 25: Examining Alternative Media

Kevin M. Lerner

Chapter 26: Case Study in Alternative Media: Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, and Uncovering Religion in Journalism History

Bailey Dick

Chapter 27: Mainstream Journalism and the Black Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States

Sid Bedingfield

Chapter 28: The Immigrant Press: Building Community, Giving Voice

Jon Bekken and Melita M. Garza

Chapter 29: Finding the First Americans in American Journalism History

Melissa Greene-Blye

Chapter 30: Let’s Pull Together’": A Story of Filipina/o/x American Journalism

Celeste González de Bustamante

Chapter 31: The News Media and the Myth of the Mexican Miscreant

Michael Fuhlhage

Part VII

Underrepresented Formats in Journalism History

Chapter 32: The Country Press: Historical Challenges

Beth Garfrerick

Chapter 33: Student Journalism History: Essential Reporting

Kaylene Dial Armstrong

Chapter 34: Community Radio: Agents of Change

Noah Arceneaux

Part VIII

Changing Forms of Journalism History

Chapter 35: A Call to Action: Newspaper Digitization and American Journalism History

Julien Gorbach

Chapter 36: A Place for Media Historians to Publish: Journalism History and American Journalism

Pamela E. Walck and Pam Parry

Chapter 37: The Changing Story of the Life Story

Marilyn Greenwald

Chapter 38: The Journalism History Podcast

Nicholas Hirshon, Ken Ward, and Teri Finneman

Part IX

Theory, Concepts, and Historiography

Chapter 39: Theory, Concepts, and Historiography: An Overview

Tim P. Vos

Chapter 40: Cultural and Critical Approaches to US Journalism History

John Nerone

Chapter 41: Journalism, History, and the Contorted Nature of Memory

Janice Hume

Chapter 42: Fake News, Truth, and Democracy

Erika Pribanic-Smith

Chapter 43: Remaking Journalism History: Issues of Progress, Presence, and Position

Carolyn Kitch

Conclusion

Index