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Posted, Jul. 24, 2002
Updated, Apr. 20, 2008


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Journalism History Bibliography

By David Shedden (more by author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

American Journalism Historians Association
http://ajhaonline.org/

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

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

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

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

CNN 25th Anniversary Project
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/cnn.25/

Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/

Communication section of the Web site for the PBS
documentary, "The War", by Ken Burns, 2007.

The Downhold Project (UPI History)
http://www.thedownholdproject.info

Encyclopaedia of USA History: Journalists
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjournalists.htm

Ernie Pyle: 60 years after his death
By Owen V. Johnson, April 2005
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/news/041505pyle/

Historical Periods in Television Technology (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/

History of Business Journalism 
(UNC School of Journalism)
http://www.bizjournalismhistory.org

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

Industry Leaders: 50 Years of Murrow (RTNDA)
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/50-years-of-murrow990.php?id=990

Jailed & Subpoenaed Journalists -- A Historical Timeline
(First Amendment Center)
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=16896

Jhistory
http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory/

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

Journalism and Florida History Bibliography (Poynter Online)
http://poynter.org/florida

Journalism Movies Page (Paul E. Schindler)
http://www.schindler.org/movie.shtml

Journalists in the Movies (Washington Post/Newseum, 1997)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/newseum/journfilms1.htm

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

The Maynard Institute History Project
http://www.maynardije.org/programs/history

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

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

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

The Mike Wallace Interview
(Video Archive at Harry Random Center)
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/

Edward R. Murrow RTNDA Convention Speech
October 15, 1958
http://web.archive.org/web/20070220091807/
http://www.rtnda.org/resources/speeches/murrow.shtml

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

NBC Resources Held by
the Library of Congress Recorded Sound Section

(and Finding Aid)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/recnbc.html

National Digital Newspaper Program
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
(see also: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers)

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

New York Times 150th anniversary
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/150/ 

Newseum
http://www.newseum.org/

Newspaper Movies (Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/club/movies.htm

Oral Histories Relating to Journalism History
(AJHA /Compiled by James D. Startt, 1999)
http://www.elon.edu/dcopeland/ajha/oralhistory.htm

Paley Center for Media
http://www.mtr.org
Formerly the Museum of Television and Radio

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (LOC)
http://memory.loc.gov/
ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html

Poynter Online's 
Early TV Anchors: A History of Network Evening News
http://poynter.org/tvhistory

Poynter Online's
James Carey: A Model for Journalists and Scholars Alike
May 23, 2006
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=101795

Poynter Online's
New Media Timeline (1969-2008)
http://poynter.org/nmt

Poynter Online's
Seven Wonders of the Journalism World
By Roy Peter Clark, 2007.
(See also: Roy's Totally Subjective Picks: 85 Wonders of the Journalism World, 2008.)

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

Radio Pioneers & Core Technologies (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/

"Read All About It:
How newspapers got into such a fix, and where they go from here."
Paul E. Steiger, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 2007.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119888825411356705.html

Reporting Civil Rights
http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/

Sacramento Bee's 150th Anniversary Timeline
http://150th.mcclatchy.com/

Society for News Design 25th Anniversary
http://www.snd.org/about/history.html

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

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

Television History - The First 75 Years
http://www.tvhistory.tv

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

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

What a Century! (CJR, January/February 1999)
http://archives.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

Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
(University of Texas at Austin)
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/woodstein/

Women in Journalism (C-Span, 2004)
http://www.c-span.org/apa/women_npc.asp

Women in Journalism Oral History Project
http://wpcf.org/oralhistory/ohhome.html

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

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

Your Life Work Series: Journalism (Film, circa 1950, YouTube)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9rvBgaxUXrc

BOOKS
1990-2007

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

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Barnhurst, Kevin G. and John Nerone.
The Form of News: A History.
New York: Guilford Press, 2001.

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

Washington, DC: American University Press, 1993.

Bernstein, Mark and Alex Lubertozzi.
World War II on the Air.
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003.

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.

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

Briggs, Asa and Peter Burke. A Social History
of the Media from Gutenberg to the Internet
.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.

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

New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Broussard, Jinx Coleman. Giving a Voice to the Voiceless:
Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists
.
New York: Routledge, 2004.

Burke, Peter and Asa Briggs. A Social History of the Media:
from Gutenberg to the Internet.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.

Burns, Eric. Infamous Scribblers: the Founding Fathers
and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism.
New York: Public Affairs, 2006.

Campbell, Joseph. The Year that Defined American Journalism.
New York: Routledge, 2006.

Cannadine, David. History and the Media.
New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2004.

Chadwell, William Robert. Horace Greeley:
Champion of American Freedom.
New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Clark, Roy Peter and G. Stuart Adam.
Journalism: The Democratic Craft.
New York: Oxford, 2006

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.

Copeland, David A. Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

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

Crowley, David. J. and Paul Heyer.
Communication in History.
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

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

Downs, Robert Bingham and Jane B. Downs.
Journalists of the United States.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1991.

Ehrlich, Matthew C. Journalism in the Movies.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

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.

Fang, Irving E. A History of Mass Communication:
Six Information Revolutions. Boston: Focal Press, 1997.

Fanning, Kay. Kay Fanning's Alaska Story.
Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2006.

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.

Fellow, Anthony R. and John Williams Tebbel.
American Media History.
Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.

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.

Godfrey, Donald G.
Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

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

Harnett, Richard M. and Billy G. Ferguson.
Unipress: United Press International: Covering the 20th Century.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2001.

Harrison, S.L. Cavalcade of Journalists 1900-2000.
Miami, FL: Wolf Den Books, 2002.

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

Haskell, Harry. Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds:
Kansas City and Its Star.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.

Haynes, Gary. Picture This!: The Inside Story
and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures.
New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006.

Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story.
New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

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.

Humphrey, Carol Sue. The Press and the Young Republic, 1783-1833.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

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

Kitch, Carolyn L. Pages from the Past:
History and Memory in American Magazines.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines:
Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present
.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

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.

Langman, Larry. The Media in the Movies.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1997.

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

Lewis, Jon E. The Mammoth Book of Journalism:
An Anthology of the 100 Greatest Newspaper Articles
.
New York: Carrol & Graf., 2003.

Library of America. Reporting on Civil Rights. vols. 1-2.
New York: Library of America, 2003.

Lutes, Jean Marie. Front Page Girls:
Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Mills, Eleanor, Kira Cochrane and Naomi Wolf. Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing
and Reporting by Women Journalists.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.

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.

Ness, Richard. From Headline Hunter to Superman:
A Journalism Filmography
.
Landham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.

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

Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism:
A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers
.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

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.

Raymond, Joad. The Invention of the Newspaper:
English Newsbooks, 1641-1649.
New York: oxford University Press, 1996.

Reporters of the Associated Press.
Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered
War, Peace, and Everything Else.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

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.

Seib, Philip M. Broadcasts from the Blitz:
How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War.
Washington,DC: Potomac Books, 2006.

Serrin, Judith and William Serrin.
Muckraking!: The Journalism that Changed America.
New York: New Press, 2002.

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

Sloan, William David. The Early American Press, 1690-1783.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

----. Perspectives on Mass Communication History.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991.

Sloan, W. David and Lisa Mullikin Parcell, eds.
American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002.

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

Smythe, Ted Curtis. The Gilded Age Press.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

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

Spencer, David Ralph. The Yellow Journalism.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Stacks, John F. Scotty: James B. Reston and
the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2003.

Sterling, John Michael. Stay Tuned:
A History of American Broadcasting
.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

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

----. 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. Mightier Than the Sword:
How the News Media Have Shaped American History
.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

----. 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.

Teel, Leonard Ray. The Public Press, 1900-1945:
the History of American Journalism.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006.

Terry, Wallace. Missing Pages:
Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007.

Thomas, Leonard. The Power of the Press:
The Birth of American Political Reporting
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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, Brian. Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004.

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

Washburn, Patrick Scott. The African American Newspaper.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006.

Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists
in the City of Light Between the Wars.
Chicago: IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

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.

Winn, J. Emmett and Susan L. Brinson, eds. Transmitting the Past:
Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.

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 Tower in Babel:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

----. The Golden Web:
The History of Broadcasting in the United States 1933-1953
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

----. The Image Empire:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 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.


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