Suggests that the press did not always adhere to party lines in the late 18th century. (RB)

Women's political journalism began with a short-lived national newspaper titled "The Revolution." (RB)

Tells how Duff Green obtained editorial and financial control of the "United States' Telegraph"--the primary organ for promoting the 1828 election campaign of Andrew Jackson--and how he expanded the role of partisan journalism. (GW)

A review of the literature of printing technology from 1850-95 suggests that technological barriers to multi-column headlines were not as extensive as journalism historians have indicated. (Author/RB)

Notes that the percentage of daily newspapers that also produce a weekly or semiweekly edition has dwindled since 1876; outlines reasons for the continuance of the approximately 50 daily-weekly combinations in existence in 1978. (GT)

Examines ten books published since World War II, and concludes that muckraking is very much alive today. (RB)

Describes the effect of the Jamaican race riot in 1865 on the debate over Reconstruction in the American press. (RB)

Describes the early history of news reporting via radio and the influences of such newscasts as "March of Time" (which station WLW started in 1928) on the broadcast industry of the 1930s and 1940s. (RB)

Considers the life and publishing career of Edward E. Cooper, a Black journalist whose newspaper, the "Colored American," was the leading Black Washington newspaper in the period around 1900. (GW)

Examines the life and career of the Washington, D.C., newspaper editor who dominated black journalism in the nation's capital during the years (1882-1922) when it was the center of Afro-American political and intellectual life. Notes his opposition to Booker T. Washington. (FL)

Traces the National Broadcasting Company's pioneer efforts with news film that set new television standards in informational programing. (FL)

Surveys five of the leading socialist publications from 1902 to 1906 to determine their reaction to the muckrakers. Concludes that the publications first greeted the muckrakers with enthusiasm, but that the enthusiasm waned. (FL)

Analyzes story use by both large and small papers published in Ohio in the nineteenth century and concludes that the smaller papers accepted the news definition of the larger ones, which was derived from wire service reports. (FL)

Focuses on the 1858 election campaign in which Abraham Lincoln opposed Stephen A. Douglas, examining the function and role of political reporters at the time, the press's relationship with candidates, and the contribution of reporters and the press to the public's knowledge and understanding of the candidates and the issues. (Author/GT)

Examines the role newspapers played in frontier America with special emphasis on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on the press and politics in a democratic society. (RB)