How Media Historians Should Act Now to Preserve Their Field

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Notes

1. Tim P. Vos, “Theory, Concepts, and Historiography: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to American Journalism History, ed. Melita M. Garza, Michael Fuhlhage, and Tracy Lucht (London: Routledge, 2024), 401–10. Also see John Nerone, “Cultural and Critical Approaches to US Journalism History,” in The Routledge Companion, 411–20.

2. See Andrew L. Yarrow, LOOK: How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America (Lincoln: Potomac Books of the University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

3. Carolyn Kitch, “Remaking Journalism History,” in The Routledge Companion, 447.

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Maurine H. Beasley

Maurine H. Beasley, professor emerita of journalism at the Philip Merrill College of the University of Maryland College Park, is a past head of the History Division as well as past president of both AEJMC and the American Journalism Historians Association. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books dealing with journalism history particularly with a focus on women’s experience. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies from George Washington University. She has published eight research articles as the first author in Journalism History, tying for the second most of all-time, according to the Publications Committee Diversity Report published in the December 2022 issue of the journal.