By: Amber Roessner, American Journalism editor
Seeking digital media reviews for American Journalism: A Journal of Media History
Any digital media resource or production (website, social media account, digital archive, or film) about journalism, media, film, or public relations history.
Are you interested in writing a digital media review for American Journalism: A Journal of Media History? The Digital Media Reviews (DMR) section of the journal showcases digital archives, websites, social media accounts, and film resources that would be useful to media historians or media history educators. Past submissions have highlighted digital archives authors have consulted in their own research or that are housed at their own institutions, while others have explored popular media (social media, film, or television series) that engage with relevant historical topics or issues.
I am currently collecting reviews for 2025’s Volume 42, Issues 2 through 4. Please visit American Journalism’s website to learn more about the journal itself as well as the DMR section. If you have an idea for a digital media review, I warmly encourage you to contact me at cteresa@niagara.edu for further information about submission guidelines. Thank you!
Review length: 700 to 800 words long
Deadline: Flexible
Contact: Carrie Teresa, Digital Media Reviews editor, cteresa@niagara.edu
Upcoming American Journalism Rename Feedback Survey
American Journalism Historians Association members should be on the lookout for a Qualtrics survey that is designed to offer feedback around calls to rename the organization’s journal, American Journalism. The survey will be distributed to AJHA’s membership through Wild Apricot within the next month.
As the survey introduction explains:
At American Journalism’s 40th anniversary, former editors Barbara G. Friedman and Kathy Roberts Forde (2023) asked: ‘why should a journal that publishes media history, not only journalism history, across national contexts and boundaries continue to call itself by a name—American Journalism—that excludes content it welcomes?’ (p. 356). Incoming editor Amber Roessner heard similar calls for a more inclusive name during the journal’s editorial transition and approached the boards of the American Journalism Historians Association and American Journalism about continuing a dialogue more than a decade in the making. With support from both boards and our Taylor and Francis representative, this survey is designed to gain insight into the perspective of our community of scholars.
Roessner further contextualized calls for a name change in her recent editor’s note published in American Journalism Vol. 42, No. 1, citing the 2024 AJHA Presidential Address. “It’s time,” AJHA president Tracy Lucht noted in her address. “The name of our journal should respect and reflect the research of those among us who study the histories of public relations, advertising, entertainment, and other forms of media communication, not just within the US but globally. We can be exclusionary, or we can be inclusive. To me, the choice is clear” (Lucht, "Noise and Numbers"). In response to these continued calls, the Qualtrics survey was designed in consultation with the AJHA board to gather feedback from our community in the coming days. So, please be on the lookout for the AJHA Wild Apricot survey announcement in your in-boxes within the next month. Moreover, as we engage in dialogue around this topic, please remember to heed the voice of former American Journalism editor Jim Martin, who once reminded reviewers to “let courtesy prevail.” (Jim Martin, “Editor’s Note,” American Journalism 22, no. 2 (2005): 6.).
