{"title":"Publishing Respectability: Almira Spencer and the Young Ladies' Journal of Literature and Science","authors":"P. Hunt","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2022.2161666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2022.2161666","url":null,"abstract":"Almira Spencer’s Young Ladies’ Journal of Literature and Science (1830-31) was the rare magazine both published and edited by a woman in the early nineteenth century and illustrates how such publications were creative and capitalist ventures that allowed women to exercise an unusual amount of freedom in business and exert social influence. Spencer's magazine was an instrument for expressing her opinions, an occasion to be an arbiter of middle-class values, and a means to earning a living. Spencer harnessed her experience as a respectable woman, mother, and teacher to guide, inform, and educate the daughters of America's middle class through a magazine carefully crafted to consider their unique intellectual needs, moral responsibilities, and role in society. By launching her opinions and judgement into the public arena through a magazine, Spencer embodied both the possibilities of empowerment and obstacles of constraint in middle-class women’s lives in the 1820s and 1830s.","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"26 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41716046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition","authors":"Melissa Greene-Blye","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2023.2162750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2023.2162750","url":null,"abstract":"since 2010—the first time the United States has used the Espionage Act to prosecute a publisher of classified information, rather than an informant. Assange is currently being held in a jail in London. Engelman and Shenkman’s study of the Espionage Act of 1917, the first history of this important and troublesome law, concludes with a call for its replacement. “Digitization has increased both the capacity of the state to amass extraordinary levels of secret information and the potential for journalists to obtain that information, raising the stakes in a constitutional crisis that can only be addressed by replacement of the Espionage Act,” they write (pp. 269-270). Whatever form that replacement might take, it will need to distinguish between secrets that serve the public interest and those that impede just and democratic decision-making. A worthy replacement will also need to distinguish between disclosure of classified information and its publication. Engelman and Shenkman’s compelling history should inform deliberations about the roles of secrecy and publicity in our digital world for some time to come.","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45978534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Editor’s Reflection: The Early Days of American Journalism","authors":"W. D. Sloan","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2023.2165863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2023.2165863","url":null,"abstract":"In a reflection on the founding of American Journalism in 1983 by Gary Whitby, this fortieth anniversary essay examines the earliest beginnings of the journal, and the chief aims of the individuals who helped establish the journal: to improve historical scholarship through superior historiography. This essay argues that Whitby’s founding of American Journalism did more than help scholars advance in their profession. It was also a critical event in advancing historical scholarship among journalism and mass communication scholars.","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"87 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48706569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice","authors":"Agnes Hooper Gottlieb","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2023.2162762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2023.2162762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"116 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46844051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walter Lippmann and Public Opinion","authors":"Tom ARNOLD-FORSTER","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2022.2161665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2022.2161665","url":null,"abstract":"Walter Lippmann’s seminal writing, Public Opinion, remains a classic text in communications studies a century after its first publication. By examining Lippmann’s unpublished notes and drafts alongside key contemporary works, new light is shed on how the book’s origins predated the First World War and how its argument went beyond debates about technocratic government. Lippmann’s main agenda was to contest liberal-constitutionalist theories of public opinion; his core intervention was to develop a social psychology of opinion formation. He drafted and wrote Public Opinion as a descriptive account of democratic politics under modern conditions. Instead of simply prescribing technocratic solutions, Lippmann framed a starker paradox: democracy through public opinion defined modern politics, but modernity also made opinion formation ever more difficult.","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"51 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48887488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press,","authors":"J. Ferré","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2023.2162770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2023.2162770","url":null,"abstract":"the trust on which journalism—and ultimately democracy—rest (p. 6). Clash will interest journalism and political historians, and it is suitable for assignment to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. By focusing on more recent presidents with more conflictual press relations, Marshall arguably underplays the docility of the Washington press corps, whose coverage has historically been more stenographic than investigative. But this narrower focus is far more digestible than Harold Holzer’s recent tome, The Presidents vs. the Press. In all, Clash is a welcome addition to the canon, and a reminder of why democracy requires a free and vigorous press to hold presidents and other public officials to account.","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"124 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46541378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), https://gallica.bnf.fr/","authors":"Clara Bordier","doi":"10.1080/08821127.2022.2164752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2022.2164752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41962,"journal":{"name":"American Journalism","volume":"40 1","pages":"131 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41887590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}