American Journalism, Volume 37, Issue 4 (2020)

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Championing Humanity, Overlooking Atrocity: Edward R. Murrow and the Holocaust
Laurel Leff
Pages: 419-449
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Baseball and the News
Ronald Rodgers
Pages: 450-475
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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“Improving the Race”: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905–1922
Rachel Grant & Cristina Mislán
Pages: 476-499
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Mortimer Thomson’s “Witches of New York”: Undercover Reporting on the Fortune-Telling Trade
Samantha Peko
Pages: 500-521
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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On the Edge of the American Revolution: The Nova Scotia Gazette in 1775
Kate Dunsmore
Pages: 522-545
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America
By E. James West (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020), 194 pp
Bernell E. Tripp
Pages: 546-547
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Humbug! The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City’s Penny Press
by Wendy Jean Katz, New York: Fordham University Press, 2020, 304 pp.
Mark Bernhardt
Pages: 548-549
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger, eds., Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2020, 254 pp.
Lisa C. Luedeman
Pages: 549-551
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Media Relations and the Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump
Lisa M. Burns, ed. (London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), 330 pp
Heather J. Stone
Pages: 551-553
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism
by Amanda Frisken, Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2020, 273 pp.
Geoffrey Ellwand
Pages: 553-555
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Journalists as Witnesses to Executions: Processing the Viewing Room
by Kenna R. Griffin (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020), 86 pp
Leigh Ann Wilson
Pages: 555-557
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Digital Media Reviews

Book Review
Woman’s Exponent
Maintained by Brigham Young University and the University of Utah, https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/WomansExp, https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu
Candi Carter Olson
Pages: 558-560
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Federal Cases Involving Unauthorized Disclosures to the News Media, 1778 to the Present
Created and Maintained by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, https://www.rcfp.org/resources/leak-investigations-chart/
Mark Feldstein
Pages: 560-561
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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J. Walter Thompson Company Collection
Maintained by Duke University, https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289814
Carole O’Reilly
Pages: 562-563
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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Endnotes

Endnotes
Page: 564
Published online: 25 Nov 2020
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