Schedule for JJCHC 2020 – Virtual Conference
March 14, 2020
(All times EDT)
Session 1: 9:00-10:20 a.m.
(Re)Centering Women in Journalism History
Moderator/Zoom Host: Teri Finneman
Link to access:
https://kansas.zoom.us/j/3467391140
Trouble getting in? Email Teri at finnemte@gmail.com.
PRESENTERS:
“‘A True Newspaper Woman’: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller”
Carolina Velloso, University of Maryland
“‘Libbers’ March’: Newspapers and the 50th Anniversary of American Women’s Suffrage”
Dana Dabek, Temple University
“Suffragists as Early PR Pioneers: The National American Woman Suffrage Association Press Bureau”
Arien Rozelle, St. John Fisher College
“Where are the women in Gay Talese’s ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold’”
Sarah Bahr, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Innovating Journalistic Styles, Beats, and Practices
Moderator/Zoom Host: Brian Creech
Link to access:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/617263751
Trouble getting in? E-mail brian.creech@temple.edu
PRESENTERS:
“‘Stars! They’re Just Like Us!’: Us Weekly and the Weaponization of Celebrity News”
Joanna Arcieri, Columbia University
“Breaking the Billboard Magazine Mold: The Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson and Julio Iglesias Super Specials”
Madeline Liseblad, Middle Tennessee State University
Greg Pitts, Middle Tennessee State University
“The Innovation of Roone Arledge: How the ABC Sports and News Executive Used a Broad Pre-Digital Social Network to Help Create Modern Broadcasting”
Raymond McCaffrey, University of Arkansas
“Reporting the environment: A history of the environmental beat”
Suzannah Evans Comfort, Indiana University–Bloomington
Histories of Political Journalism and Public Affairs
Moderator/Zoom Host: Nick Gilewicz
Link to access:
Trouble getting in? E-mail ngilewicz01@manhattan.edu
PRESENTERS:
“Vicissitudes in the Wilderness: Lorenzo Dow and the Press in Early America”
Jason Guthrie, Clayton State University
“Rivington Revisited: A Second Look at James Rivington, American Revolution’s “Tory” Printer”
Autumn Lorimer Linford, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
“All the President’s Media: How the Nation Responded to New Communications Technology Adopted by US Presidents”
Ashley Walter, Pennsylvania State University
Karlin Andersen, Pennsylvania State University
“History of Political Journalism, Georgia’s Case in 1917-1918 and after 100 years”
Rusudan Vashakidze, University of Georgia
Session 2: 10:30-11:50
The Elliot King Top Research-in-Progress Presentations
Moderator/Zoom Host: Brian Creech
Link to access:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/818070488
Trouble getting in? Email brian.creech@temple.edu
PRESENTERS:
“Life on Campus: Life Magazine’s “College Girl” as an Ordinary and Ideal Symbol of America in the 1930s”
Lindsay Hargrave, Temple University
Carolyn Kitch, Temple University
“‘Race Trouble’ vs. ‘Operation 35’: Opposing Frames of the 1960 Tallahassee, Florida, Sit-Ins as Crafted by Mainstream and Student Journalists”
Dante Mozie, University of South Carolina
“’Don’t Waste the Reader’s Time’: The Journalistic Innovations of Willard M. Kiplinger”
Rob Wells, University of Arkansas
“A Citizen of the World: Philippa Schuyler, the Manchester Union Leader and Putting a Spotlight on 1960 Belgian Congo”
Pamela Walck, Duquesne University
Emily Fitzgerald, Duquesne University
Histories of Propaganda, Censorship, and Stories Untold
Moderator/Zoom Host: Elisabeth Fondren
Link to access:
Trouble getting in? Email Elisabeth at fondrene@stjohns.edu
PRESENTERS:
“News Services at Your Service – How the American press became a propaganda tool for an authoritarian regime during the cold war”
WeiPing Li, University of Maryland
“The Fine Art of Propaganda Literacy: The Institute for Propaganda Analysis’ (1937-1942) Challenges to Share Public Expertise and Defy the Manipulation of Thought”
Elisabeth Fondren, St. John’s University
“The President and His Loyal Journalists: Government-Press Relations Under the Woodrow Wilson Administration”
Meghan Menard McCune, Louisiana State University
John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State University
“Baseball, ice cream, marijuana: The Other Side of the Vietnam War”
Yasmeen Ebada, Ohio University
Panel Presentation: “Inside the Upheaval of Journalism”
Moderator/Zoom Host: Teri Finneman
Link to access:
https://kansas.zoom.us/j/3467391140
Trouble getting in? Email Teri at finnemte@gmail.com.
Panelists:
Ted Gest, Former Editor, U.S. News & World Report
Dotty Brown, Former Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
Marquita Pool-Eckert, Former Producer, CBS News
Tammy Tanaka, Former Reporter, Religion News Service
Lunch Break 12:00-12:50
Keynote: 1:00 p.m-2 p.m.
The Last Great Press Crisis: Newspapers’ Responses to the Challenges of the 1960s and 70s
Matthew Pressman, Seton Hall University
Zoom Host: Brian Creech
Link to access:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/780207346
Trouble getting in? E-mail brian.creech@temple.edu
Session 3: 2:10 – 3:30 p.m.
Sports, Media, and Cultural History
Moderator/Host: Teri Finneman
Link to access:
Link to access: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/3467391140
Trouble getting in? Email Teri at finnemte@gmail.com
PRESENTERS:
“‘Complaining,’ Campaigning,’ and everything in between: Media Coverage of Pay Equity in Women’s Tennis in 1973 and 2007”
Shannon Scovel, University of Maryland
“Sure to Open the Floodgates: Sportswriters Explain the 1971 Arbitration Ruling in Favor of the Angels’ Alex Johnson”
Ron Bishop, Drexel University
“Joan Whitney Payson: A Media-Savvy Trailblazer Among Female Sports Team Owners”
Nick Hirshon, William Paterson University
Race and Representation in Mid-20th Century American News
Moderator/Host: Brian Creech
Link to access:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/468871095
Trouble getting in? E-mail brian.creech@temple.edu
PRESENTERS
“The Lilywhite Television Newsroom: Civil Rights on Screen and the Colour Line Behind the Scenes in 1960s America”
Sage Goodwin, University of Oxford
“Let the Verbs and Adjectives Flow: White Resistance and Mississippi’s Newspapers During the Ole Miss Integration Crisis”
Derek Catsam, University of Texas–Permian Basin
“Framing an Acceptable Image: The Political Campaigns of Four of America’s First Black Mayors”
Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Louisiana State University
Shaniece Bickham, Louisiana State University
Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State University
William Worthy and the ‘Tehran Paperback’ Controversy”
Robin Sundaramoorthy, University of Maryland
Panel Presentation: “Curating Culture: How 20th Century Magazines Defined America”
Moderator/Host: Elisabeth Fondren
Link to access:
Trouble getting in? Email Elisabeth at Fondrene@stjohns.edu
PRESENTERS
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Columbia College Chicago
Sheila Webb, Western Washington University
Kevin Lerner, Marist College
Gary Hicks, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Closing Panel: 3:45-4:45 p.m.
Bringing Corporate Communications History in Journalism History
Zoom Host: Brian Creech
Link to access:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/404462452
Trouble getting in? E-mail brian.creech@temple.edu
Moderating: Cayce Myers, Virginia Tech
Karen Miller Russell, University of Georgia–Athens
Shelley Spector, Founder and Director, Museum of Public Relations
