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Abstract
In a meditation on the burgeoning literature of metajournalistic discourse analysis, this essay argues for ways in which the discipline of journalism history could be invigorated by researchers considering much broader conceptions of the actors, sites, and texts that constitute media history. Through an analytical literature review of existing metajournalistic discourse studies, both historical and contemporary, this essay suggests a variety of contexts and types of archives historians might more fully exploit in their research.
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1 Matt Carlson, “Metajournalistic discourse and the meanings of journalism: Definitional control, boundary work, and legitimation,” Communication Theory 26, no. 4 (2016): 349-368.
2 Paige Gray, Cub Reporters: American Children’s Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age. (SUNY Press, 2019); Carolyn Kitch, “News Media as Artifacts of Loss: Journalism History in the 9/11 Museum,” Journalism History 47, no. 3 (2021): 223-225; Stephen Bates, “A Free and Responsible University: The Hutchins Commission, the Press, and Academia,” Journalism History 47, no. 2 (2021): 117-134.
3 These archives are maintained at c-span.org.
4 Michael Buozis, Shannon Rooney, and Brian Creech, “C-SPAN and Journalism,” in The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research: Volume 4, ed. Robert X. Browning (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2018), 173-198.
5 Michael Buozis, Shannon Rooney, and Brian Creech, “Journalism’s institutional discourses in the pre-Internet era: Industry threats and persistent nostalgia at the American Society of Newspaper Editors,” Journalism 22, no. 1 (2021): 69.
6 Brett G Johnson, Ryan J. Thomas, and Jeremiah P. Fuzy, “Beyond journalism about journalism: Amicus briefs as metajournalistic discourse,” Journalism Practice 15, no. 7 (2021): 950.
7 Michael Buozis, Targeting the trades, press associations, and J-schools: Tobacco industry mapping and shaping of metajournalistic discourses [Paper Presentation]. AEJMC 2021 Conference, Virtual; The Tobacco Truth Industry Documents can be found online at https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
8 For example, Joshua W Dunsby, “Tobacco industry influence on health and science journalism,” in The 131st Annual Meeting, 2003.
9 These archives can be found online at https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/
10 For example, Brian Creech and Shannon Rooney, “‘Death of The New Republic’” Discursive conflict between tech industry management and journalism’s cultural value,” Journalism Studies 18, no. 11 (2017): 1363-1380; Shannon Rooney and Brian Creech, “A Digital Baron for a Digital Age: Chris Hughes and Neoliberalism’s Ascendancy in Journalism,” Digital Journalism 7, no. 6 (2019): 746-761; Brian Creech and Perry Parks, “Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse,” Journalism Studies 23, no. 1 (2022): 70-88.
11 Patrick Ferrucci, “Mo ‘meta’blues: How popular culture can act as metajournalistic discourse,” International Journal of Communication 12 (2018): 18.
12 Brian McNair, Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
13 Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman, Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015).
14 Saltzman’s archive can be found at http://www.ijpc.org/
15 Ehrlich and Saltzman, Heroes and Scoundrels, 4.
16 Katherine A. Foss, “No Longer Seeking ‘Truth, Justice and the American Way’: Journalists and the Press in Comic Books and Contemporary Film Adaptations,” The IJPC Journal 7 (2018): 1-28; Richard Ness, “Mr. Capra Goes to Mumbai: Class, Caste and Karma in Indian Remakes of Frank Capra's Films,” The IJPC Journal 8 (2020): 56-74.
17 Eric Burns, Infamous scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism (New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2007).
18 Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Markham, ON: Thomas Allen Publishers, 1996).
19 W. Joseph Campbell, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies (Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001).
20 Matt Carlson, “Gone, but not forgotten: Memories of journalistic deviance as metajournalistic discourse,” Journalism Studies 15, no. 1 (2014): 33-47.
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Michael Buozis
Michael Buozis, is an assistant professor of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College, PA, USA. His research explores how different forms of media and digital communities shape public understandings of contemporary and historical social problems, from police violence to epidemics to crises in journalism. His recent work has appeared in Journalism, Journalism Studies, American Journalism, Convergence, Internet Histories, and Feminist Media Studies.