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Journalism History Bibliography

Updated July 2002


Online Resources
Books

ONLINE RESOURCES

American Journalism Historians Association
http://www.ajha.org/

American Women's History: Journalism
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/
history/women/wh-jour.html

AEJMC History Division
http://www.utc.edu/~aejhist/

Associated Press 150th Anniversary
http://www.ap.org/anniversary/nhistory/index.html

The Battle Over "Citizen Kane" (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/kane2/index.html


Black Journalists History Project (Maynard Institute)
http://www.maynardije.org/programs/history/index/

CNN 20th Anniversary Special Project
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/cnn20/

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Media/Headlines
http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/media_headlines.htm

History Buff's Homepage
http://www.discovery.com/guides/
history/historybuff/historybuff.html

Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
http://www.ijpc.org/

Jhistory Home Page
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~jhistory/

Journalism: Antebellum and Civil War America
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/
work/allam/17841865/history/journal.htm


Journalism History (print journal)
http://www.nscee.edu/unlv/Colleges/Greenspun/Journalism_History/


Library of American Broadcasting
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/

Media History Monographs
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/mediahistory/

Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/

Media on Stamps
http://www.spacetoday.org/Stamps/Stamps.html

The Murrow Boys (1996 CJR Book Review)
http://www.cjr.org/year/96/6/books-murrow.asp

Museum of Broadcast Communications
http://www.museum.tv/index.shtml

Museum of Television and Radio
http://www.mtr.org/

National Public Broadcasting Archives
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/NPBA/index.html

The Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/

Oral Histories Relating to Journalism History (AJHA /Compiled by James D. Startt)
http://www.elon.edu/dcopeland/ajha/oralhistory.htm


Poynter's "New Media Timeline"
http://www.poynter.org/research/nm/timeline/

Poynter's "Today in Journalism History"
http://poynter.org/cftoday/today.cfm


Pulitzer Prize Photographs (Newseum)
http://www.newseum.org/pulitzer/

Presstime: 20th Anniversary Issue
http://www.naa.org/presstime/9910/2019.html

Radio News (Old Time Radio)
http://www.otr.com/news.html

Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press
http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/

Stories of the Century (Newseum)
http://www.newseum.org/century/

Technology and the Information Age (University of Missouri)
http://web.missouri.edu/~smga48/

Top 100 Works (NYU)
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/journal/
Dept_news/News_stories/990301_topjourn.htm

United States Newspaper Project
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/tvnews.html

Washington Post: 125th Anniversary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/post125/


What a Century! (CJR)
http://www.cjr.org/year/99/1/century.asp

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers
and Broadcasters During World War II

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

Women in Journalism Oral History Project
http://npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.htm

Women's History: Journalism (Distinguishedwomen.com)
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/journ.html

Yellow Journalism (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/crucible/journalism.html

Yellow Journalism and the Spanish American War (TNT)
http://tnt.turner.com/movies/
tntoriginals/roughriders/jour.home.html

BOOKS


Books 1990-2000
Books Before 1990

BOOKS
1990-2000

Ball, Rick. Meet the Press:
Fifty Years of History in the Making.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Beasley, Maurine Hoffman, and Sheila Gibbons.
Taking Their Place:
A Documentary History of Women and Journalism.

Washington, DC: American University Press, 1993.

Blanchard, Margaret A., ed. History of the Mass Media
in the United States, An Encyclopedia.

Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.

Brennen, Bonnie and Hanno Hardt, eds.
Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography.
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Bliss, Edward. Now the News:
The Story of Broadcast Journalism.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys:
Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Clowse, Barbara Barksdale. Ralph McGill: A Biography.
Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999.

Connery, Thomas B., ed. A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism:
Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre
.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life.
New York: Knopf, 1996.

Danky, James Philip, et al, eds.
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Emery, Michael, Edwin Emery, and Nancy L. Roberts.
The Press and America:
An Interpretive History of the Mass Media
, 9th ed.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Farrar, Howard. The Baltimore Afro-American, 1892-1950.
Westport CT: Greenword Press, 1998.

Fedler, Fred. Lessons from the Past:
Journalists' Lives and Work, 1850-1950
.
Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2000.

Folkerts, Jean, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. Voices of a Nation:
A History of Mass Media in the United States.

Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1997.

Frank, Reuven. Out of Thin Air:
The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Ghiglione, Loren.The American Journalist:
Paradox of the Press.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1990.

Graham, Katharine. Personal History.
New York: Knopf, 1997.

Hartsock, John C. A History of American Literary Journalism:
The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form
.
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

Hollis, Daniel Webster. The Media in America.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1995.

Hudson, Frederick. Journalism in the United States from 1690-1872.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Hutton, Frankie and Barbara Straus Reid, eds.
Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History.
Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1996.

Knudson, Jerry W. In the News: American Journalists View Their Craft.
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000.

Kuralt, Charles. A Life on the Road.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990.

Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America:
The Evolution of a Social Instrument
.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Mindich, David T. Z. Just the Facts:
How Objectivity Came to Define American Journalism.

New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Munson, Eve Stryker, and Catherine A. Warren, eds.
James Carey: A Critical Reader.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Murray, Michael D., ed. Encyclopedia of Television News.
Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press, 1999.

Newton, Eric, ed. Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists:
The Newseum's Most Intriguing Newspeople
.
New York: Times Books, 1999.

Perry, James M. A Bohemian Brigade:
The Civil War Correspondents
.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.

Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson.
A History of the Black Press.
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1997.

Rafferty, Anne Marie. American Journalism 1690-1904.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Ritchie, Donald A. American Journalists.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Sachsman, David B., et. al, eds. The Civil War and the Press.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Sims, Norman, ed. Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Sloan, W. David. Perspectives on Mass Communication History.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991.

Sloan, W. David, James G. Stovall, and James D. Startt.
The Media in America: A History, 4th ed.
Northport, AL: Vision, 1999.

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. The Women Who Wrote the War.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999.

Startt, James D., and W. David Sloan, eds.
The Significance of the Media in American History.
Northport, AL: Vision Press, 1994.

Sterling, Christopher H., and John M. Kittross.
Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990.

Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice:
African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History.

Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.

Suggs, Henry Lewis, ed.
The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Tifft, Susan E., and Alex S. Jones. The Trust:
The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times.

New York: Little Brown and Company, 1999.

Trahant, Mark N. Pictures of Our Nobler Selves:
A History of Native American Contributions to News Media.

Nashville, TN: The Freedom Forum, 1995.

Ward, Hiley H. Mainsteams of American Media History.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1997.

Williams, Julie Hedgepeth. The Significance of the Printed
Word in Early America: Colonists' Thoughts on the Role of the Press
.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Wolseley, Ronald E. Black Achievers in American Journalism.
Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing, 1995.

Woodhull, Nancy J. and Robert W. Snyder, eds.
Defining Moments in Journalism.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.



BOOKS
Before 1990

Barnouw, Erik. A History of Broadcasting
in the United States,
3 vols.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966-1970.

Bleyer, Willard G. Main Currents
in the History of American Journalism.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

Caswell, Lucy Shelton, ed. Guide to Sources
in American Journalism History.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus.
New York: Random House, 1973.

Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be.
New York: Knopf, 1979.

Hudson, Robert V. Mass Media.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.

Kahn, Frank J., ed. Documents of American Broadcasting.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Kluger, Richard. The Paper:
The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune.

New York: Knopf, 1986.

Lee, James Melvin. History of American Journalism.
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1923.

McKerns, Joseph P., ed. Biographical Dictionary
of American Journalism.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Marzolf, Marion. Up From the Footnote:
A History of Women Journalists.

New York: Hasting House, 1977.

Miller, Sally M. The Ethnic Press in the United States:
A Historical Analysis and Handbook.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: A History
of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690-1940.

New York: Macmillan, 1941.

Persico, Joseph E. Edward R. Murrow.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News:
A Social History of American Newspapers.

New York: Basic Books, 1978.

Severeid, Eric. Not So Wild a Dream.
New York: Knopf, 1947.

Startt, James D., and W. David Sloan.
Historical Methods in Mass Communication.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.

Steele, Ronald. Walter Lippmann and the American Century.
New York: Little, Brown, 1980.

Stephens, Mitchell. The History of News:
From the Drum to the Satellite.

New York: Viking, 1988.

Sloan, W. David. American Journalism History:
An Annotated Bibliography.

New York: Greenwood press, 1989.

Startt, James D. and W. David Sloan.
Historical Methods in Mass Communication.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.

Suggs, Henry Lewis. The Black Press in the South.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America.
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1810.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970.

Well, Ida B. Crusade for Justice.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

White, William Allen.
The Autobiography of William Allen White.
New York: Macmillan, 1946.
2nd Rev ed., Lawrence, KN: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Woodward, Bob, and Carl Bernstein.
All the President's Men.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.


Aldrich, Leigh Stephens. Covering the Community:
A Diversity Handbook for Media
.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1999.

Biagi, Shirley and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth.
Facing Difference: Race, Gender, and Mass Media.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997.

Campbell, Christopher P. Race, Myth, and the News.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Chideya, Farai. The Color of Our Future.
New York: William Morrow, 1999.

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World.
Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997.

Coward, John M. The Newspaper Indian:
Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-1890
.
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Curry, George E., ed. The Affirmative Action Debate.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

Danky, James Philip and Maureen E. Hady, eds.
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Dawkins, Wayne. Black Journalists: The NABJ Story.
Merrillville, IN: August Press, 1997.

Dennis, Everette E. and Edward C. Pease, eds. The Media in Black and White.
Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1997.

Dijk, Teun Adrianus Van. Racism and the Press.
New York: Routledge, 1991.

Dines, Gail and Jean M. Humez. Gender, Race, and Class in Media.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Halper, Donna L. Invisible Stars:
A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting
.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Hill, George H. and Lorraine Raglin.
Black Women in Television: An Illustrated History and Bibliography.
New York: Garland, 1990.

Hosley, David H. Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Kamalipour, Yahya R. and Theresa Carilli, eds.
Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media.
Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998.

Keever, Bevery Ann Deepe, et al., eds.
U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Keith, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westpost, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995.

Lont, Cynthia M. Women and Media: Content, Careers, Criticism.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994.

Maynard, Robert C. and Dori J. Maynard. Letters to My Children.
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995.

Robertson, Nan. The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times.
New York: Random House, 1992.


Rodriguez, America. Making Latino News: Race, Language, Class.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1999.


Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice:
African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History.

Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.

Thomas, David A. and John J. Gabarro. Breaking Through:
The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America
.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Toth, Elizabeth L. and Linda Aldorry, eds.
The Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices from the Field.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001.

Trahant, Mark N. Pictures of Our Nobler Selves:
A History of Native American Contributions to News Media.

Nashville, TN: The Freedom Forum, 1995.

Van Dijk, Teun A. Racism and the Press.
New York: Routledge, 1991.

Veciana-Suarez, Ana. Hispanic Media: Impact and Influence.
Washington: Media Institute, 1990.

Waller, Linda, ed. Newspapers, Diversity and You.
Princeton, NJ: The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, 1998.

Weston, Mary Ann. Native Americans in the News:
Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press.

Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.

Wickham, DeWayne. Thinking Black: Some of the
Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Minds.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.

Wilson, Clint C., Felix Gutierrez.
Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Wolseley, Roland E. Black Achievers in American Journalism.
Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing, 1995.

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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.



     
 
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