Publications

“Labor Reporting and its Critics in the CIO Years,” Journalism and Communication Monographs 22, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 4-75.

“Westbrook Pegler and the Rise of the Syndicated Columnist,” American Journalism 36, no. 3 (Summer 2019): 322-347.

“Victor Riesel: Labor’s Worst Friend,” Journalism History 44, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 241-251.

“Letters from Readers Support Pegler’s Anti-Union Crusade,” Newspaper Research Journal 34, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 6-21.

“Trouble on the Right, Trouble on the Left: The Early History of the American Newspaper Guild,” Journalism History 38, no 3 (Fall 2012): 142-155.

“‘We Made Every Effort to Be Impartial’: The Complicated Response of Newspaper Publishers to the Rise of Organized Labor, 1933-1955,” American Journalism 29, no. 2 (Spring 2012).

“Labor Makes the News: Newspapers, Journalism, and Organized Labor, 1933-1955,” Enterprise and Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 39-52.

“Victor Berger’s Dangerous Ideas: Censoring the Mail to Preserve National Security During World War I,” Essays in Economic & Business History 26, (2008): 5-20.

Reviews, related work

Book review, “Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century,” by Rob Christensen, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, August 2026.

Book review, “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy,” by Margot Susca, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, May 2024.

Book review, “Little Lindy is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century,” by Thomas Doherty, Journal of Twentieth Century Media History 1, no. 1 (2023) 87-90.

Book review, “The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960,” by Will Mari, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, March 2022.

Book review, “Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys,” by Vincent DiGirolamo. Journal of Social History 56, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 502-503.

“Column Writing” entry in Encyclopedia of Journalism, ed. Gregory Borchard (Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 2022), 352-354.

Book review, “Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth Century America,” by Michael Stamm, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, May 2021.

Book review, “Rewriting the Newspaper: The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism,” by Thomas R. Schmidt. American Journalism 37, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 112-113.

Teaching Our Journal, “Westbrook Pegler and the Rise of the Syndicated Columnist,” Summer 2019, http://www.american-journalism.org.

Research essay, “Researching Riesel and Organized Labor,” http://www.journalism-history.org, January 2019.

Book review, “Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen,” by Sheri Chinen Biesen, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, January 2019.

“When newspaper columnists set the national agenda,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, Dec. 16, 2018.

Book review, “Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the Fourth Estate,” by James D. Startt, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, October 2018.

“Victor Berger” entry in Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movement, ed. Mitchell Hall (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2018), 70.

Book review, “Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital,” by Kevin G. Barnhurst, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, March 2017

Book review, “AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present,” by Giovanna Dell’Orto. American Journalism 33, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 352-353.

Book review, “America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform,” by Victor W. Pickard, Jhistory, H-Net Reviews, May 2016.

“Press,” entry in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, Vol. 5, 1921-1945, ed. Robert H. Zieger, (Washington: CQ Press, 2010), 272-276.

Book review, “Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps,” by Donald A. Ritchie. Oral History Review 33, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2006): 109-111.