Selected academic articles
The New York Daily News and the History of Conservative Media (Modern American History)
Before the Summit: News Media Framing, Scripts, and the Flag Raising at Iwo Jima (Media, War & Conflict; co-authored with James J. Kimble)
“Guttural Phrases” and “Vulgar Directives”: The Evolution of Press Standards on Profanity (American Journalism)
Ambivalent Accomplices: How the Press Handled FDR’s Disability and How FDR Handled the Press (The Journal of the Historical Society)
Black and White and Red All Over? Reassessing Newspapers’ Role in the Red Scare of 1919 (Journalism History)
Selected mass media articles
An inside look at the successes and scandals of the New York Times (Washington Post book review)
In the pages of their newspapers, they downplayed Hitler’s threat (Washington Post book review)
Journalism grapples with its class problem (NiemanLab)
A top columnist who exposed corruption — and sometimes betrayed his principles (Washington Post book review)
The Famous Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo Captured an Authentic Moment—But Gave Many Americans a False Impression (Time, co-authored with James J. Kimble)
America’s Biggest Newspaper 70 Years Ago Sounded a Lot Like Trump Today (The Atlantic)
Is Trump the New McCarthy? (Washington Post book review)
Journalistic Objectivity Evolved the Way It Did for a Reason (Time)
The Endangered Art of War Reporting Gets Its Much-Deserved Close-Up in A Private War (Vanity Fair)
The Justice Department’s move to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger sweeps aside centuries of government policy (Washington Post)
Donald Trump Is Reagan’s Heir (The Atlantic)
The Myth of FDR’s Secret Disability (Time)
Quoted/cited in media
Everyone else uses four-letter words. Should newspapers? (Jim Beckerman, The Record/northjersey.com)
The progressive news network Courier keeps a foot in eight swing states. This local Michigan newsroom is one of them. (Sarah Gotfredsen, Columbia Journalism Review)
With Must at the helm, tweeting the boss may actually change Twitter (Ben Brasch, Jeremy B. Merrill, and James Bikales, Washington Post)
Does horse-race coverage throw the race? (Jim Beckerman, The Record/northjersey.com)
Ted Cruz’s gender-centric jokes promote culture warrior image, raise eyebrows (Todd Gillman, Dallas Morning News)
You Trust the Media More Than You Say You Do (Jack Shafer, Politico)
Why News Used to Have Less Bias (YouTube video by Ryan Chapman, borrows heavily from On Press; 300K+ views)
Pulitzer citations lay on the superlative language (Erik Wemple, Washington Post)
The War on Objectivity in American Journalism (David Greenberg, Liberties)
Which missing persons do we care about? (Jim Beckerman, The Record/northjersey.com)
The abandonment of the working class (Batya Ungar-Sargon, Washington Examiner)
Seeking objectivity in journalism is getting in the way of speaking truth (Celeste Headlee, Current)
Inside the Lines (Savannah Jacobson, Columbia Journalism Review)
Fox News seeks refuge in bothsidesism (Erik Wemple, Washington Post)
Journalists seem unwelcome at protests now, but it wasn’t always so (Jim Beckerman, The Record/northjersey.com)
Fair and Balanced Press? When Do Newspapers Cross the Line? (Jim Beckerman, The Record/northjersey.com)
RNC blasts Politico over Michigan election story (Erik Wemple, Washington Post)
Just Doing Their Jobs (Rod Hicks, Quill)
America is changing, and so is the media (Ezra Klein, Vox)
He was Trump before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew attacked the news media 50 years ago (Thomas Alan Schwartz, The Conversation)
Donald Trump, Peacemaker (Jack Shafer, Politico)
Le New York Times dit être victime d’une campagne d’intimidation (Marc Thibodeau, La Presse [Montreal])
Propos racistes, président raciste? (Marc Thibodeau, La Presse [Montreal])
Perception of bias: the media and the Mueller report (Rod Hicks, Quill)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a journalism ethics quandary! (James Grebey, Columbia Journalism Review)
Does Journalism Have a Future? (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker)
Can Freedom of the Press Survive David Pecker? (Bob Bauer, The Atlantic)
The media’s bias should be toward democracy (E. J. Dionne, Washington Post)
Abusive media moguls harmed more than just individual women. They shaped a misogynistic culture. (Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post)
If Trump White House is meddling in AT&T deal, it wouldn’t be unprecedented (Jonathan Peters, Columbia Journalism Review)
Media bias is nothing new (Amanda Bennett, Washington Post)
Media appearances/interviews
The John Howell Show (WLS-AM, Chicago): Public Vulgarity in Politics
FrankNews interview: Working the Refs
Journalism History podcast: interview with AEJMC History Book Award winner Matthew Pressman
The Politics Guys podcast: interview about On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
Professor Buzzkill podcast: FDR, Polio, and the Press
History Slam podcast: American journalism in the 1960s and 70s