Journalism/Bibliography

General: scholarly secondary sources

 * Blanchard, Margaret A., ed. History of the Mass Media in the United States, An Encyclopedia. (1998)
 * Brennen, Bonnie and Hanno Hardt, eds. Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography. (1999)
 * Caswell, Lucy Shelton, ed. Guide to Sources in American Journalism History. (1989)
 * Emery, Michael, Edwin Emery, and Nancy L. Roberts. The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999.), standard textbook; best place to start.
 * Gorman, Lyn. and David McLean. Media and Society in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Introduction (2002) excerpt and text search
 * Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003)
 * Lee, James Melvin. History of American Journalism. (1923)
 * Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument. (1930)
 * McKerns, Joseph P., ed. Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism. (1989)
 * Marzolf, Marion. Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists. (1977)
 * Miller, Sally M. The Ethnic Press in the United States: A Historical Analysis and Handbook. (1987)
 * Mott, Frank Luther. American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690-1940 (1941). major reference source and interpretive history.
 * Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. (2001)
 * Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson. A History of the Black Press. (1997)
 * Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. (1978).
 * Sloan, W. David, James G. Stovall, and James D. Startt. The Media in America: A History, 4th ed. (1999)
 * Startt, James D. and W. David Sloan. Historical Methods in Mass Communication. (1989)
 * Streitmatter, Rodger. Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History (1997)
 * Suggs Henry L., ed. The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979 (1983)

Colonial Origins, Revolution, New Nation

 * Hudson, Frederick. Journalism in the United States from 1690-1872 (1872)
 * Sloan, William David and Julie Hedgepeth Williams. The Early American Press, 1690-1783. (1994)
 * Humphrey, Carol Sue. The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833 (1993)
 * Pasley. Jeffrey L. "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early Republic (2001) online review
 * Rafferty, Anne Marie. American Journalism 1690-1904 (2004)
 * Rutland, Robert A. Newsmongers: Journalism in the Life of the Nation, 1690-1972 (1973).
 * Stewart, Donald H. The Opposition Press of the Federalist Period (1969)

Penny Press, Telegraph and Party Politics

 * Ames, William E. A History of the National Intelligencer.
 * Blondheim Menahem. News over the Wire: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897 (1994)
 * Crouthamel James L. Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press (1989)
 * Davis, Elmer. History of the New York Times, 1851-1921 (1921)
 * Dicken-Garcia, Hazel. Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth-Century America (1989)
 * Douglas, George H. The Golden Age of the Newspaper (1999)
 * Elliott Robert N., Jr. The Raleigh Register, 1799-1863 (1955)
 * Hudson, Frederick. Journalism in the United States from 1690-1872 (1873)
 * Huntzicker, William E. and William David Sloan eds. The Popular Press, 1833-1865 (1999)
 * Luxon Norval Neil. Niles' Weekly Register: News Magazine of the Nineteenth Century (1947)
 * Lyon, William H. The Pioneer Editor in Missouri 1808-1860. (1965)
 * Martin Asa Earl. "Pioneer Anti-Slavery Press", Mississippi Valley Historical Review 2 ( March 1916), 509-28. online at JSTOR
 * George S. Merriam, Life and Times of Samuel Bowles V. 1 (1885) Springfield [Mass.] Republican
 * Nevins, Allan. The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism (1925)
 * Rafferty, Anne Marie. American Journalism 1690-1904 (2004)
 * Schiller, Dan. Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism (1981)
 * Schwarzlose Richard A. The Nation's Newsbrokers, vol. 1, The Formative Years: From Pretelegraph to 1865 (1989)
 * Shaw Donald Lewis. "At the Crossroads: Change and Continuity in American Press News 1820-1860", Journalism History 8:2 (Summer 1981), 38-50.
 * Smith Carol, and Carolyn Stewart Dyer. "Taking Stock, Placing Orders: A Historiographic Essay on the Business History of the Newspaper", Journalism Monographs 132 ( April 1992).
 * Sloan, W. David and James D. Startt. The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900 (2003)
 * Steele Janet E. The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana. (1993)
 * Stevens John D. Sensationalism and the New York Press (1991)
 * Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878 (1994)
 * Thomas, Leonard. The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting. (1986)
 * editor of New York Tribune (1840-72)
 * Van Deusen, Glyndon G. Thurlow Weed, Wizard of the Lobby (1947), Whig editor of Albany Journal
 * Walsh Justin E. To Print the News and Raise Hell! A Biography of Wilbur E Storey. (1968), Democratic editor Chicago Times
 * Williams Harold A. The Baltimore Sun 1837-1987. (1987)

Civil War

 * Andrews, J. Cutler. The North Reports the Civil War (1955), the definitive study
 * Andrews, J. Cutler. The South Reports the Civil War (1970) the definitive study
 * Crozier, Emmet. Yankee Reporters 1861-1865 (1956)
 * Fermer Douglas. James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era 1854-1867 (1986)
 * Merrill Walter M. Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison (1963)
 * Reynolds, Donald E. Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis (1970).
 * Sachsman, David B., et. al, eds. The Civil War and the Press. (2000)
 * Sanger Donald Bridgman. "The Chicago Times and the Civil War", Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17 ( March 1931), 557-80. A Copperhead newspaper; online at JSTOR
 * Skidmore Joe. "The Copperhead Press and the Civil War", Journalism Quarterly 16:4 ( December 1939), 345-55.
 * Starr, Louis M. Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action (1954)
 * Weisberger, Bernard A. Reporters for the Union (1953)

Yellow Journalism & Muckrakers: 1890-1920

 * Muckraker
 * Yellow journalism
 * Brian, Dennis. Pulitzer: A Life (2001)
 * Campbell, W. Joseph. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies (2003), focus on 1898
 * Davis, Elmer. History of the New York Times, 1851-1921 (1921)
 * Filler, Louis. Crusaders for American Liberalism (1939)
 * Richard Hooker, The Story of an Independent Newspaper (1924) Springfield Republican in Massachusetts
 * Kaplan, Richard L. Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865-1920 (2002)
 * Kobre, Sidney. The Yellow Press, and Gilded Age Journalism (1964)
 * Nasaw, David. The Chief The Life of William Randolph Hearst (2000) excerpt and text search
 * Procter, Ben. William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863-1910 (1998)
 * Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg. The Muckrakers (1961).

20th Century: 1920 - present

 * Diamond, Edwin. Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times (1995)
 * Gottlieb, Robert and Irene Wolt. Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California. (1977)
 * David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (2002) on 1970s
 * Harnett, Richard M. and Billy G. Ferguson. Unipress: United Press International: Covering the 20th Century. (2001)
 * Kluger, Richard. The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune. (1986)
 * Liebling, A. J. The Press (1961)
 * McDougal, Dennis. Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty  (2001)
 * Merritt, Davis. Knightfall: Knight Ridder And How The Erosion Of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy At Risk (2005)
 * Nasaw, David. The Chief The Life of William Randolph Hearst (2000)
 * John J. Scanlon, The Passing of the Springfield Republican (1950) it folded after 1947 strike
 * Stacks, John F. Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism. (2003)

Media history

 * Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke.  A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet (2001) excerpt and text search
 * Rugh; William A. Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics Praeger, 2004
 * Schramm Wilbur, ed. Mass Communications (University of Illinois Press, 1960).

Radio and television journalism
see Broadcast Journalism
 * Bernhard, Nancy. U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 (2003) excerpt and text search
 * Briggs Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press, 1961).
 * Ewbank Henry and Lawton Sherman P. Broadcasting: Radio and Television (Harper & Brothers, 1952).
 * Scannell, Paddy, and Cardiff, David. A Social History of British Broadcasting, Volume One, 1922-1939 (Basil Blackwell, 1991).
 * Schwoch James. The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900-1939 (University of Illinois Press, 1990).