Journalism

Kathy Roberts Forde, Sid Bedingfield, eds. Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. The History of Media and Communication Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xvii + 344 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08615-1.

Reviewed by Elliot King (Loyola University Maryland) Published on Jhistory (February, 2023) Commissioned by Zef Segal (Department of History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, the Open University of Israel)

Charlotte Ann Legg. The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2523-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0850-7.

Reviewed by Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University) Published on H-Empire (December, 2022) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Kevin M. Lerner. Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019. 290 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2186-5. 

Reviewed by Mark Oromaner (Independent Scholar) Published on Jhistory (November, 2022) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe

Andie Tucher. Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18634-6; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18635-3.